Wissenschaftliche Literatur Methods

Robert Celec (Ed.)

Ecological Influences on Different Life Aspects

EUB. Erziehung – Unterricht – Bildung

The scientific monograph is an important interdisciplinary work, dealing with several aspects of life and ecological issues. Its profound message seeks to highlight the important impact of certain ecological problems on our life; from social, natural and technical sciences, as well as art. In terms of content, this book presents research findings that are scientifically well-structured and direct us through the independent research and study views of the authors, so that…

Xiaoxiang Su

Radical Awareness among Chinese-as-a-Foreign-Language Learners

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

This study examined radical awareness among college students who learned Chinese as a foreign language (CFL).

Radicals are subcomponents of characters. They follow positional constraints and they have meaning-cueing and pronunciation-cueing functions. Radical awareness, the knowledge about the positional and functional regularities of radicals has been found closely related to Chinese word reading and word writing among developing readers in first language…

Xiaodong Zhang

Teaching Writing Through Teachers᾽ Self-Directed Development

A Representative Qualitative Case Study in China – Challenges and Promises

LINGUA – Fremdsprachenunterricht in Forschung und Praxis

It is typical for teachers to experience a lack of effective professional development at the institutional level. In this context, the practice that teachers have gained from their professional development may also insufficiently meet students’ needs. For example, in the context of English as a foreign language (EFL) writing instruction within Chinese universities, pre-service and in-service education seem to focus on the instruction of writing at the level of language…

Noora Buser

Absorptive Capacity 2.0: The Link between Knowledge and Innovation in Firms

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Innovation by introducing new products to the market is often accepted as a necessity for firms’ long-term survival. The research in the field on management science emphasizes the role of knowledge as a central source of innovation. In particular, absorptive capacity as a firm’s “ability to recognize the value of new information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends” has been proposed as vital for firms’ innovation performance. [...]

Črtomir Rozman, Stanislav Tojnko, Tatjana Unuk, Karmen Pažek, Mario Lešnik

Decision Support Systems in Fruit Production

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

The modern computer based decision support methods have been gaining on importance. In this book we present modern decision support methods and their application in fruit production. The real life applications presented in the book are a direct result of authors long lasting research work and until now unpublished research material in this field. The decision support software and its development methods are presented theoretically and practically on real life decision…

Fiona Ungemach

Information Efficiency of Accounting Standards

Finanzmanagement

The analysis of financial statements plays an important role in performance measurement and equity valuation. Accounting information not necessarily reflects the economic situation of a firm but is subject to regulatory frameworks that make financial statement data difficult to interpret economically. The general accounting principles in combination with discretionary managerial decisions applying the accounting principles involve differences between economic and…

Barbara Luise Heinrich

Strategien zur Verfolgung von Umweltzielen in der agrarischen Landnutzung

Agrarpolitische Maßnahmen und freiwillige Standards

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Das Werk behandelt zwei sehr unterschiedlichen Strategien, mit denen Umweltziele in der agrarischen Landnutzung verfolgt werden können. Zunächst wird das sogenannte Greening untersucht, worunter bestimmte Umweltauflagen in der 2013er-Reform der Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik der Europäischen Union verstanden werden. Das Greening stellt keine einfachen Umweltauflagen in der Landwirtschaft dar, sondern koppelt diese an freiwillig zu beziehende Fördergelder. Dieses Setting erzeugt…

Natalie Kienzle

Empirical B-to-B Marketing Research – A Literature-based Analysis of the Period Between 1983 and 2012

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Business-to-Business (B-to-B) marketing has become an essential research discipline in the marketing science. This has increased the necessity to review the existing literature not only with regard to investigated topics but in regard to the applied methodology as well, as the methodology constitutes the foundation of every research discipline and indicates the scientific maturity level.

Since existing literature reviews merely give a partial analysis of the…

Bertrand Michel Pamfouet Kemtie

(Non-)Signature and Ratification of Multilateral Regional Agreements

An Explanation of States‘ Behavior in the African Union

Schriften zur internationalen Politik

(Non-)signature and ratification of multilateral treaties has become a major policy concern. Its relevance to the African Union is rising since the 66th Ordinary Session of the Council of Ministers.

Even though scholars have discussed how domestic factors and state’s openness shape treaty approval, the behavior of African states has been hitherto ignored. The author shows that Africa’s omission from international relations’ research is ill-informed,…

Martin Krikken

The Organizational Response to Remote Service Delivery

A Competence-Based Exploration of Remotability in the Capital Goods Sector

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Fueled by the arrival of the Internet, modern technologies have been gradually relaxing the need for physical proximity between service providers and service objects, which has long been considered a major burden for global service delivery. The utilization of remote service delivery, in particular, puts service providers in the promising position to offer service elements to service objects at any given location and at any given time. Naturally, this raises vital…