Wissenschaftliche Literatur Framework

Stefan Volkert

Wissensrepräsentation in Customer Relationship Management-Anwendungssystemen und ökonomische Analysen

Studien zur Wirtschaftsinformatik

Das Angebot individualisierter, d.h. auf den Kunden ausgerichteter, Dienstleistungen erweist sich für Unternehmer in Zeiten gesättigter Märkte als eine wesentliche Strategie, im globalen Wettbewerb zu bestehen. Waren hierfür vormals aufgrund der hohen Personalintensität nur einzelne Kundenschichten lukrativ, so ermöglicht der Einsatz intelligenter Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie, kostengünstig Massenmärkte individualisiert zu bedienen. Doch wie können…

Enrico Tille

Der europäische Bildungsraum und das duale System der Berufsbildung in Deutschland

Rechtliche Rahmenbedingungen zur zukünftigen Gestaltung des deutschen Berufsbildungssystems

Studien zum Völker- und Europarecht

Das gesamte System der Bildung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland wird zunehmend von europäischen Einflüssen geprägt. Im Zentrum der hierzu ergangenen öffentlichen Diskussion steht der so genannte „Bologna-Prozess“, der innerhalb der Hochschulen zu einer weit reichenden Umgestaltung einer Vielzahl von Studiengängen geführt hat. Weniger beachtet sind hingegen die europäischen Impulse und Bestrebungen zur Reformierung der Berufsbildungssysteme, insbesondere des deutschen…

Ursa Müller

Private Antitrust Damages Actions in the US, Germany and at the European Community Level

Americanisation or Europeanisation of Antitrust Laws and Their Extraterritorial Enforcement Under Recent Reform Initiatives

Studienreihe wirtschaftsrechtliche Forschungsergebnisse

The author analyses the systems of private antitrust damages actions in the United States of America, Germany and at the European Community level. Treble damages actions in the US have set the international standard for private antitrust damages claims. However, the re-evaluation of private antitrust enforcement by the American Modernization Commission and its consecutive proposals revived the debate for changing the interplay between public and private antitrust…

Sandra Linke

A New Dynamic Model of Creativity

Schriften zur pädagogischen Psychologie

This book provides a clear, readable, informative, up-to-date and timely introduction to this field of knowledge and traces the history of the conception of creativity. It provides an in-depth literature review, offers a new dimension to the contemporary debates about the role of the creative process in the creation of new knowledge and products and gives thought-provoking insights on concepts, theoretical principles, models, processes, implications, and research…

Ilona Steiler

The European Union and China in Africa

Explaining Conflict and Cooperation with International Relations Theory

Regensburger Studien zur Internationalen Politik

The Chinese quest for African resources, market opportunities, and political influence in African countries has caught the attention of Western media and analysts. The depiction of Beijing’s „safari“ into Africa mainly presents a negative image of the Chinese engagement: China is said to risk political stability on the continent by politically and economically supporting autocratic governments, to import its low environmental and labor standards when investing into…

Alper Selman Tengüz

Strategies of the State towards the Informal Economy

Studienreihe Volkswirtschaften der Welt

Around the world developed and developing economies alike are struggling with the persisting nature of the informal economy. The policy advice given to politicians by development economists today is rather generic with no regard to country-specific factors. This research develops a policy advice framework for governments to improve the relevance of policy actions towards the Informal Economy. The basic paradigm is that the informal economy is not to be regarded as a…

Andreas Graichen

Is Fairtrade Labeling Fair?

A Welfare Analysis

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The discussion about the effectiveness of fairtrade labeling in terms of economic efficiency and as a measure for alleviating poverty goes on since several years. While the fairtrade movement claims that it is necessary to pay a „fair“ price to the producers to allow them to live a decent life, free-market apologists argue that that fairtrade is not really fair but principally makes non-fairtrade producers poorer. Moreover it is stated that fairtrade is an inefficient way…

Graciela Küchle

Counterfactuals, Rationality and Equilibrium Concepts in Game Theory

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Strategic decision making involves deliberating about the consequences of every available course of action. This in turn, requires hypothesizing about the beliefs of the other players and their possible reactions to observed play. Unless individuals have previous experience with similar games or players, they will have to resort to their own assessment and reasoning in order to justify their strategies.

Decisions that arise out of introspection are full of…

Alexandra Niessen

The Price Impact of Macroeconomic News on Capital Markets

Finanzmanagement

The core question of this book is how macroeconomic information impacts asset prices. Macroeconomic announcements are important for asset prices, because they provide information on current and future economic conditions. They are widely discussed by investors and extensively covered by the public press.

This book shows that a wide range of asset classes strongly reacts to the release of macroeconomic news. It consists of a theoretical part and an empirical…

Tina Busch

Verbal Modalities in Corporate Publications

A Cross-Cultural Approach

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

In a time of globalization, business corporations have expanded their activities to the global market and communicate with local and global audiences competing with one another in terms of market share, financial investments, brand awareness, and audience trust. As national and corporate cultures meet and compete on various levels of business, a consistent corporate identity and a positive public image can be the crucial factors that decide between success or failure of a…