Wissenschaftliche Literatur Development

Michaela Schmidt

How to Manage Your PhD Thesis

Development of a Process Model of Self-Regulation to Foster Postgraduate Students

Schriften zur pädagogischen Psychologie

Selbstregulation ist für Schüler und Studierende und, im Hinblick auf lebenslanges Lernen, auch für Erwachsene wichtig, denn sie sollen in der Lage sein, neue Fertigkeiten zu erlernen sowie eigene Lernprozesse - über die Schulausbildung hinaus - zu steuern. Um den Anforderungen des lebenslangen Lernens gerecht werden zu können, ist es deshalb notwendig, dass Erwachsene ihr Wissen und ihre Fertigkeiten immer wieder aktualisieren können. Innerhalb der Gruppe der Erwachsenen…

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…

Prisca Schleiffer Marais

Cross-border Taking of Evidence in Civil and Commercial Matters in Switzerland, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Nigeria, and Uganda

Schriften zum Zivilprozessrecht

The book investigates the extent to which cross-border taking of evidence in civil and commercial matters in relation to Switzerland, South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Nigeria, and Uganda is allowed. Such evidence-taking is not only governed by the domestic law of the state seeking evidence abroad and that of the state where the relevant means of proof are located, but also by public international law, and more specifically by the concept of sovereignty. The admissibility…

Oliver Treidler

From the Lisbon Strategy to Europe 2020 and Beyond

Rethinking the Rationale for a Common European Economic Policy

EURO-Wirtschaft – Studien zur ökonomischen Entwicklung Europas

During the last couple of years the lack of competitiveness of many European economies has been brutally exposed. This book presents a detailed analysis of the failed attempt of the European Commission to enhance competitiveness and rethinks the rationale for delegating competences to the EU.

The Lisbon Strategy, which was initiated in 2000, has failed to attain the goal of turning Europe into the most competitive and dynamic economy in the world. In 2010 the…

Martin Pavlovič

Hop Industry

Quality Management Decision Support Modeling

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The global demand from breweries and merchants, supply from growers, the hop quantity produced, and their brewing value contribute to making hops a successful product in the global trade. A good yield of hops is greatly beneficial to the hop grower, the merchant, the brewer, and, of course, the beer-drinking consumer.

A single book cannot cover everything to be said on the hops and its industry. Therefore, in addition to an overview of the hop industry and the…

Manuel Weinmann

Earnings Forecast Modeling

A Systematic Approach

Finanzmanagement

Equity analysts’ earnings forecasts, collected by the Institutional Brokers’ Estimate Service (IBES), Zacks and other news providers, serve as a central input in financial research. For example, Claus & Thomas (2001) use earnings forecasts to estimate the equity risk premium. The equity risk premium, defined as the excess of the expected return on the market over the risk-free rate, is most commonly estimated via historical averages of ex post realized returns due to the…

Martin H. Wenderoth

Four-Phase-Model for the Implementation of Shared Services

Strategisches Management

This thesis focuses on the implementation and conception of shared services within large-scale enterprises in Germany. The review of the existing literature, publications and studies concerning the shared service concept led to the conclusion that shared services are discussed in a comprehensive way in practice and science. However, at the same time, the publications appear to highlight only certain aspects of the concept.

The main objective of this thesis is…

Christian Christrup Kjeldsen

Capabilities and Special Needs

An Educational Foundation

Sozialpädagogik in Forschung und Praxis

This doctoral work provides a comprehensive capability oriented research on the single case of a new Danish innovative policy (Act. no. 564 of 2007), a social work and educational intervention for mentally challenged young people and other young people with special needs; the so-called individually arranged youth education (STU). This Act has been taken into consideration in relation to an international study on the implementation of the UN convention on the rights of…

Christoph Behrens (ed.)

Complexity Governance: Change Management under Challenges of Glocalization

POLITICA – Schriftenreihe zur politischen Wissenschaft

Growing complexity due to globalization, migration, increasing speed of developments and other factors is ubiquitous. As a result, a lack of governability has become a global phenomenon. Based on experiences within a long term governance reform project in Indonesia, the interdisciplinary and international team of the Center for Good Governance has developed a model for complexity governance which is outlined in this volume. Applied exemplarically in several key…

Rüdiger Stucke

Financial Engineering and Structuring in Leveraged Buyouts

Finanzmanagement

In a Leveraged Buyout, a Private Equity investor finances the purchase price of a company to a substantial fraction with debt in addition to the equity contribution out of his fund and from the participating management. The rationale for this financing structure is the substitution of equity, as an expensive source of capital, with comparably cheap debt in order to increase the expected returns on the individual equity investment and, thus, the returns of the whole fund.…