Methods

Andreas Eickhoff

Transparency in the Banking Sector

A Microeconomic Analysis of Informational Aspects in the Credit Market

Schriftenreihe volkswirtschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The growing complexity and dynamics of financial systems as well as the increasing risk of market failures calls for a higher level of transparency on global markets, especially in the banking sector, to foster a solid and smoothly functioning financial system. Primarily regulatory authorities and central banks aspire to more transparent […]

Manuel Lérida

A Bicultural Management Model for Internationalising SMEs

Using the Example of 2^nd Generation Spanish Specialists in Germany

Strategisches Management

Objective of this book is to demonstrate a new strategic approach; the use of 2nd generation bicultural experts as competitive advantage for internationalising SMEs. The approach described in this book is, on one hand, based on the example of 2nd generation Spanish experts in Germany and on the other hand, concentrates on the example of Spanish […]

Edin Bašic

The Problem of Missing Residential Mobility Information in the German Microcensus

An Evaluation of Two Statistical Approaches with the Socio-Economic Panel

QM – Quantitative Methoden in Forschung und Praxis

The German Microcensus (MC) is a large scale rotating panel survey over three years. Because of its high case numbers and its mandatory participation the MC is a valuable survey for longitudinal analyses within a 3 years frame. A serious obstacle is the missing information about residential movers which is due to the area sampling approach used […]

Anita Zehrer

Evaluating Research Performance in Tourism

The Quality of Tourism Journals

Qualitätsmanagement

In the last few years considerable attention has been paid to research output within the scientific culture, which is disseminated in many different ways. It is commonly believed that scientific output is communicated and largely measured by means of publications, particularly quality is derived from the journal where an article has been […]

Anatol Rapoport

Conversations with Three Russians - Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Lenin

A Systemic View on Two Centuries of Societal Evolution

Schriften zur Kulturwissenschaft

This book opens up a fascinating, systemic view on the evolution of society, culture and science over the last two centuries. It is the latest Œvre of the leading thinker of systems theory and the peace movement – one of the greatest minds of our age.

Anatol Rapoport is the only surviving founder of the „Society for General Systems […]

Chun Du

RelCAD: A Relational CAD System with Constraint-Based Geometric Modelling

Forschungsergebnisse zur Informatik

Most conventional CAD systems have been proved to be Computer-Aided Drafting systems. They do not offer sufficient support for the design activity. The reason is that they cannot understand the semantic information and keep the semantic information throughout the whole design process. The semantic information here means the functional […]

Andrea Schalla

Water Supply and Sewage Disposal of the Nigerian Society

A Geographical Case Study of Human Usage and Management of the Water Resources in a Tropical Lowland Area

ORBIS – Wissenschaftliche Schriften zur Landeskunde

The African developing countries in the humid tropics with distinct wet and dry seasons have a marked and close network of rivers and streams which vary in size according to seasonal precipitation. However, the corresponding systems of water supply and sewage disposal for the population show considerable deficiencies which point to […]

Rudolf Lenk

Biophysical Applications of NMR

Schriftenreihe naturwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Living systems have a very complicated molecular structure. They are characterized by a great number of spatial configurations, high entropy and significant random movements. Because of the absence of symmetry and regularity in these systems, random motion is the most significant phenomenon to define their physiological state. [...]