Wissenschaftliche Literatur Development

Vicente López-Folgado, María del Mar Rivas-Carmona (eds.)

Essays on Translation

Multilingual Issues

TRANSLATOLOGIE – Studien zur Übersetzungswissenschaft

There are no easy answers to one of the most complex exercises man can face, as the English critic F. R. Leavis argued. Since the early 1980’s A. Lefevere, who has been a major theoretical influence for most translators, in the last few years, insisted on the role of the translator as an interpreter, to the extent that, far from being an objective act, translating should never attempt the goal of objectiveness if it also claims honesty. He thus relativizes the…

Genet Alem Gebregiorgis

Traditional Use and Meaning of Urban Spaces

The Case of Highland Towns of North Ethiopia

EX ARCHITECTURA – Schriften zu Architektur, Städtebau und Baugeschichte

The linkage between traditional values and built environment is a topic broadly discussed by architects, sociologist and historians in the context of cities in the developed world. This study extends the discussion to Sub-Saharan Africa, a region which is under-urbanised yet currently has the fastest rate of urbanisation.

Based on historical and current development of cities in Ethiopia, i.e. Gondar and Addis Ababa, the study illustrates the role of traditional…

Robert Krohmer

Die wirtschaftsverwaltungsrechtliche Behandlung von Rechten an Immobilien in der Russischen Föderation

Dargestellt am Beispiel der staatlichen Registrierung von Mietverträgen über Gewerbeimmobilien

Studien zum Immobilienrecht

Das russische Immobilienrecht gewinnt seit dem Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion für die ausländischen Investoren zunehmend an Bedeutung. Dies betrifft die Entwicklung von Immobilien durch Real Estate Development Unternehmen sowie durch potentielle Vermieter auf der einen Seite, aber auch die Anmietung dieser Immobilien durch ausländische Firmen. Dementsprechend steigt gerade im Bereich der Gewerbeimmobilien die Zahl der Objekte, insbesondere die Anzahl der Shopping Center.…

Barbara Gobsch, Joachim Käschel & József Vörös (Eds.)

Supply Chain and Corporate Environmental Management

Festschrift for Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Knut Richter

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

This volume contains a collection of papers in the field of Supply Chain and Corporate Environmental Management in honor of Professor Dr. Dr. h. c. Knut Richter, one of the leading scholars in this area. Contributed by distinguished academics, the volume chapters deal with a broad variety of topics, including Reverse Logistics, Operations Management, Inventory Management, and Mobile Technologies.

The efficient management of material, information and financial…

Lutz Firnkorn

Influence of Industry Environment on Firms‘ Characteristics

An Empirical Review of the Determinants of Cash Holding, Leverage, Investment, and Return

Finanzmanagement

This study reviews the connection between a firm‘s financing decisions and the industry environment; i.e., the industry structure as well as product market competition. According to existing research, firms should prepare themselves to maintain an investment capacity particularly in concentrated, growing, and volatile industry settings, where investments are uncertain or can have a strategic value. These required adaptations to the industry environment should furthermore…

Christof Wiechers

Optimization and Diversification of Risky Portfolios under Uncertainty

Finanzmanagement

This work presents various extensions in the field of portfolio optimization from the statistical point of view. An investor wants to allocate his wealth among different risky assets and has historic price information about these assets as the only source of information. This historic information is only partially reliable as indicator for the future development of the assets’ return characteristics, as both economic fluctuation and return parameters may change over time.…

Timo Menniken

Hydrological Regionalism in the Mekong and the Nile Basin

International Politics Along Transboundary Watercourses

Schriften zur internationalen Politik

As bipolarism was dissolving, in the 1990s, the perceived threat of nuclear war decreased, while the demand for a redefinition, or rather expansion of the term and comprehension of international security has increased. The concept of “ecological vulnerability” is a brainchild of this process and has significantly influenced the post-Cold War security debate.

According to this concept, the security risks deriving from ecologically generated instability were…

Jorge Guerra González

Infection Risk and Limitation of Fundamental Rights by Animal-To-Human Transplantations

EU, Spanish and German Law with Special Consideration of English Law

Medizinrecht in Forschung und Praxis

Animal-to-human transplantation (xenotransplantation) is a viable hope for the health and even the lives of thousands of people. However, the therapy involves many ethical and legal problems, the most significant of them being the xenogeneic infection risk. It concerns the development and transmission of new diseases derived from animals. This is a real possibility that cannot be ruled out, considering that AIDS, Ebola, or the A(H1N1) influenza are all human diseases of…

Nikolas Westphal

Fairness Opinions in Germany

An Empirical Investigation of Their Determinants, Disclosure Characteristics and Wealth Implications

Finanzmanagement

In the recent past, fairness opinions have become an increasingly popular phenomenon on German capital markets. Regulatory standards still pending, the rendering, disclosure, content and publication of fairness opinions are subject to a broad scope of practices with varying desirability. The aim of this thesis is to describe the current state of fairness opinion disclosure and quality; its development over time; its linkages to transaction characteristics, management…

Martin Sebaldt (Hrsg.)

Sustainable Development - Utopie oder realistische Vision ?

Karriere und Zukunft einer entwicklungspolitischen Strategie

POLITICA – Schriftenreihe zur politischen Wissenschaft

Das Schlagwort Sustainable Development ist in aller Munde. Nicht nur politisch korrekt ist es heute, sein Handeln als nachhaltig zu charakterisieren, sondern geradezu chic: Auch künftigen Generationen der Menschheit soll die Chance auf ein lebensfähiges Ökosystem garantiert werden, so wie die jetzige Generation dieses Erbe von ihren Vorgängern erhielt. Dem Prinzip der Nachhaltigkeit liegt daher eine ausgeprägt philanthropische Gesinnung zugrunde, die für seine…