Wissenschaftliche Literatur Decision-Making

Benjamin Albrecht

Decision-Making Under Risk and Ambiguity

An Investigation of Risk Behavior in Different Financial Situations and a Search for Relevant Personality Traits

Schriften zur differenziellen Psychologie

In our daily life, we have many things to decide. These decisions include more or less risk. Many situations where we have to decide between different options are financial decisions. Such financial decisions include the risk to lose or the possibility to win money. But what are the psychological factors which influence decisions in such financial situations Are there personality traits which make people take greater risks? Can we detect critical neuronal patterns which…

Héctor Augusto Misael Anaya Mondragon

Investment Arbitration with a Special Focus on ICSID and Latin America

Studienreihe wirtschaftsrechtliche Forschungsergebnisse

This work focuses on investment disputes between foreign investors and host states in Latin America that were primarily resolved under the Arbitration Rules of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) and the ICSID Additional Facility Rules.

By performing a case-by-case analysis on selected arbitral awards and decisions rendered by ICSID tribunals and ad hoc committees, this work examines the decision making process of investment…

Sabrina Jeworrek

The Behavioral Impact of Non-Monetary Workplace Characteristics

Laboratory and Field Experimental Evidence

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

This thesis covers four independent research articles on the behavioral impact of selected non-monetary workplace characteristics – i.e. employee voice, task characteristics, and the provision of information – on workers’ individual decision making and workplace performance.

Given the neoclassical assumption of purely self-interested and completely rational utility maximizing individuals (Homines economici), workplace characteristics should be of little interest…

Julia Plein

Die Bedeutung des Patient Empowerment für die Behandlungsqualität

Analyse der Einflussgrößen des Patient Empowerment auf Patientenzufriedenheit und Compliance im Rahmen der Versorgung chronisch kranker Patienten

Schriftenreihe Gesundheitswissenschaften

Die Beziehung zwischen Arzt und Patient unterliegt in den letzten Jahren zunehmend einem fundamentalen Wandel von einem rein paternalistisch geprägten Modell (Patient = Befehlsempfänger des Arztes) hin zu einem partnerschaftlich geprägten gemeinsamen Weg der Behandlungsgestaltung, in welcher der Patient zunehmend Verantwortung für die Behandlung übernimmt und Autonomie erlangt. Im Mittelpunkt der Ausarbeitung steht das Konzept des Patient Empowerment, der gezielten…

Dmytro Palekhov

Potential for Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) as a Regional Planning Instrument in Ukraine

Umweltrecht in Forschung und Praxis

Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) is a tool for integrating environmental concerns into policies, plans and programmes at the earlier stages of decision-making. It stimulates socio-economic development that causes minimal harm to the environment. Consequently, SEA is internationally recognised as one of the most important and direct methods for implementing the concept of sustainability.

This study explores the potential of SEA as a regional planning…

Eleazar Mbock Njock

Balance Measurement Methods in Data Envelopment Analysis

Concept, Models and Applications

QM – Quantitative Methoden in Forschung und Praxis

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a benchmarking tool that evaluates the relative efficiency by comparing peer decision making units (DMUs) which transform varying quantities of the same set of inputs into varying amounts of the same set of outputs. The efficiency score is defined as the ratio of the weighted sum of outputs to the weighted sum of inputs. Input and output weights are not a priori specified but determined model endogenously. Consequently each DMU is free…

Andrzej Ancygier

Misfit of Interests instead of the “Goodness of Fit”?

Implementation of European Directives 2001/77/EC and 2009/28/EC in Poland

Schriften zur Europapolitik

This book analyzes the implementation of the European renewable energy directives 2001/77/EC and 2009/28/EC in Poland. By providing a thorough analysis of the process of adoption of each of these directives in Brussels and its subsequent implementation in Poland, it explains the reasons for the lacking or delayed implementation of the European laws in the member countries. The discrepancy between the interests of the actors participating in the policy making process at…

Lutz Horn

Investigations into the Determinants of Investor Decision Making

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Privatinvestoren treffen im Vergleich zu anderen Investorengruppen häufiger irrationale und wirtschaftlich nachteilige Anlageentscheidungen. Um diese Anlagefehler mit Hilfe ökonomisch sinnvoller Lösungen reduzieren zu können, ist ein umfangreiches Verständnis von nachfrage- und angebotsseitigen Einflussfaktoren auf die Anlageentscheidung unabdingbar. Das Werk hat das Ziel, aus verschiedenen Blickrichtungen relevante Parameter zu identifizieren und Lösungsmöglichkeiten zu…

Madeleine Simon

Schmerzlinderung zur Dissonanzreduktion?

Ein Modell der verstärkten Kontextwirkung durch Effort Justification bei experimentell induziertem Schmerz

Studienreihe psychologische Forschungsergebnisse

Nach aktuellen Untersuchungen und Überblicksarbeiten beruht die Wirksamkeit vieler Schmerzmittel zu einem erheblichen Anteil nicht auf pharmakologischen, sondern auf sogenannten Kontexteffekten. Die Möglichkeiten einer Verbesserung der spezifischen Wirksamkeit von medikamentösen wie auch anderen Schmerzbehandlungen scheinen ausgereizt. Ärzteorganisationen rufen dazu auf, die Wirkung einer Behandlung über die Begleitumstände zu verstärken. Dafür ist ein besseres…

Jan Lakotta

Antecedents and Consequences of Managerial Confusion in Service-to-Business Buying

MERKUR – Schriften zum Innovativen Marketing-Management

Drawing on the decision-making and bounded rationality literature streams, the author conceptualizes and measures managerial confusion, which is critical for choice-process satisfaction. He examines the key drivers and outcomes of managerial confusion and the role of the decision’s importance in dealing with complexities using data collected from a diverse sample of key informants. The results demonstrate that the perceived complexities of a market offering and its…