Wissenschaftliche Literatur Methods

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real life applications presented in the book are a direct result of authors long lasting research work and until now unpublished research material in this field.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…

Daniel M. Ringel

Creating Insights in Large Markets

Electronic Commerce, Marketing & Finance

Today, firms face large and complex markets, in which they must make strategic and tactic decisions. However, their ability to make informed decisions is limited. First, they lack access to comprehensive data regarding the large markets in which they operate. Second, even in cases in which such data are available, traditional analysis methods in marketing cannot adequately address the vast quantities of data points involved thousands of consumers, firms, and products.…

Britta Bauer

Baumbestattungen in Deutschland

Sozialwissenschaftliche Untersuchung einer alternativen Bestattungsform

SOCIALIA – Studienreihe soziologische Forschungsergebnisse

Die Eröffnung des ersten Bestattungswaldes im Jahr 2001 markiert einen Wendepunkt in der deutschen Sepulkralkultur. Auch wenn Baumbestattungen gemessen an der Zahl der Gesamtbestattungen bisher nur einen marginalen Anteil ausmachen, so trifft diese alternative Bestattungsform doch den Zeitgeist und die Nachfrage steigt stetig an.

Noch ungeklärt war bisher die Frage, worauf sich dieses steigende Interesse gründen lässt. Sind es die gesellschaftlichen…

Katharina Pfarrherr / Karin Schleider

Netzwerke der psychosozialen Versorgung bei ADHS

Eine empirische Studie zu Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Kooperation

Schriften zur medizinischen Psychologie

Aufmerksamkeitsdefizit-/Hyperaktivitätsstörungen (AD(H)S) stellen eine der häufigsten diagnostizierten psychischen Störungen im Kindes- und Jugendalter dar. Aktuelle nationale und internationale Behandlungsleitlinien fordern ein multimodales Vorgehen, wodurch eine Kooperation und die Abstimmung der einzelnen beteiligten Professionen und Institutionen unumgänglich werden. In Deutschland finden Kooperationen in professionellen psychosozialen Netzwerken bei ADHS aktuell noch…

Tobias Wiens

Scheduling – Transportation – Pricing

Selected Problems and their Solutions

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Tobias Wiens investigates three selected problems in the fields of scheduling, transportation and pricing, with the aim of introducing appropriate analytical methods as a basis for better decision making. The author first introduces the new research field of team assignment and scheduling, taking into account team production effects. In contrast to the opinions prevalent in literature on job splitting, a given job’s processing time is not simply its default processing…