Wissenschaftliche Literatur Literature

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…

Simone Sesboüé

Stressor – Strain – Job Performance Relationships

The Central Role of Emotional Exhaustion in Sales and Customer Service Professions

Schriften zur Arbeits-, Betriebs- und Organisationspsychologie

Sales and customer service employees, due to their constant and direct customer contact, are particularly prone to experience emotional exhaustion. While an extensive body of literature on emotional exhaustion exists in human service occupations, very limited research attention has been directed to employees in sales and customer service professions concerning the emotional exhaustion dimension. In this study, the author seeks to investigate the crucial role of emotional…

Burcu Erdogan

Analyzing Convergence/Divergence in European Financial Markets

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The European Union implemented significant financial reforms in order to facilitate financial integration since the beginning of the 1980s. With the introduction of the euro, the process of integrating financial markets accelerated. All the restructuring efforts reflect an expectation of positive effects from a single financial market in the European Union. However, an interconnected financial system creates challenges as well. It is crucial to investigate the process of…

Hui Ji

The Impact of Culture on Preferences for E-learning Systems in Higher Education

A Comparison between China and Germany

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

As an international student in Germany, the author is part of a large community: more students than ever decide to study abroad. However, learning orientation and cultural adaptation issues are unavoidably associated with study abroad. An important option to address the problems is e-learning.

The present study verifies the German and Chinese students? cultural standards, teaching/learning cultures, and preferences for e-learning systems documented in the…

Henrike Comes-Koch

Mixed Utterances in the Speech of German-English Bilingual Infants

PHILOLOGIA – Sprachwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

This book provides a detailed linguistic analysis of the mixed utterances produced by two German English bilingual children in their third and fourth year of life.

Starting with a critical review of the relevant questions currently discussed with respect to language mixing in bilingual first language acquisition, this book addresses issues such as the form and the function of mixed utterances in bilingual children’s speech (in comparison to bilingual adults’…

Lihua Jiang

How Far Can a Community Interpreter Go?

Discourse Interpreting Filters

TRANSLATOLOGIE – Studien zur Übersetzungswissenschaft

While conference interpreting has developed as a fairly well-established discipline in terms of concepts and methods, interpreter-mediated interpreting, so-called community interpreting is still a neglected research topic despite its growing importance and recognition. Sociological communication problems associated with the interpreter’s presence and actions have come into the focus of discussion, leading to such opposing views of the interpreter as a verbatim’ reproducer…

Michael Windmann

Statistische Beratung

QM – Quantitative Methoden in Forschung und Praxis

Beratung ist ein uraltes Phänomen der menschlichen Interaktion. Sie stellt damit einen wichtigen Bestandteil des Zusammenlebens von Menschen dar. In der heutigen Zeit ist Beratung aus dem Alltag nicht mehr wegzudenken. So findet man Beratung beispielsweise in der Politik wieder, wo ein Beraterstab allein aufgrund der Komplexität der Gesetzgebung notwendig ist. Strategische Entscheidungen in Wirtschaftsunternehmen werden immer häufiger mit Hilfe von externen…

Christian Hermelingmeier

Decisions under Imperfect Information

The Ordering of Information Structures and Production under Endogenous Uncertainty

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Almost all economic activity takes place under uncertainty. The randomness may, for instance, relate to risky stock market returns, fluctuating exchange rates or uncertain product innovations. The major source of uncertainty in decision making is the limited and imperfect knowledge of the decision maker at that given point in time. The exposure to uncertainty depends therefore inherently on the available information about the distribution of the existing risks. In…

Nicole Franziska Richter

Internationalisation and Firm Performance

An Empirical Analysis of German Manufacturing Firms

Strategisches Management

The internationalisation and performance relation is subject to a controversial discussion: rationales and empirical results range from a linear positive or negative link to different curvilinear models – a conflict resolved in this paper. First, this book offers a comprehensive review of international business theory and past research. Moreover, concepts for operationalising internationalisation are thoroughly evaluated and improved with respect to measuring different…

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…