Wissenschaftliche Literatur Methods

Myrjam Beintner

Kombinationen von System Dynamics und Soft Operations Research zur Entscheidungsunterstützung im strategischen Management

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Strategische Entscheidungen besitzen für Unternehmen einen besonderen Stellenwert. Während von ihnen wesentlich die Zukunft des Unternehmens abhängt, stellen sie Entscheider vor große Herausforderungen. Als eine Möglichkeit zum Umgang mit der Komplexität strategischer Entscheidungen etablierte sich der System-Dynamics-Ansatz. Dieser führt jedoch trotz seiner Lösungsmächtigkeit nicht automatisch zu einer erfolgreichen Strategieentwicklung. Ähnliche Ziele wie System…

Veit Köppen, Roland M. Müller (Eds.)

Business Intelligence: Methods and Applications

Essays in Honor of Prof. Dr. Hans-J. Lenz

Studien zur Wirtschaftsinformatik

This Festschrift is a collection of articles by colleagues and (former) students of Prof. Hans-J. Lenz to honor his work in the field of Business Intelligence.

The 18 articles provide interesting insights into many methods and applications of this innovative topic, such as data warehousing, statistics, graphical models, data mining and decision support techniques, as well as forecasting, simulation, and controlling. [...]

Jonathan Vogelsang

The Chongqing Model – Analyzing Regional Politics Since 2007

Schriften zur internationalen Politik

This book is concerned with a recent political campaign in the Chinese municipality of Chongqing. The former secretary of the Communist Party in Chongqing, Bo Xilai, rose to fame with his „Chongqing Model“ of politics. In this campaign he combined a revival of communist propaganda with a heavy handed anti-corruption drive and several social policies. Before his spectacular dismissal in spring 2012, Bo Xilai was thought to be one of the future leaders of China. His…

Oliver Günter Lazar

Sino-German Communication Interferences in Intercultural Teamwork: A Postmodern Approach

Schriften zur Kulturwissenschaft

Previously, research on multinational teamwork with various nationalities and cultures involved, which looked at the aspect of communication, was largely based on the examination of specific facilitators and barriers to its communication. There it was found that multinational teams might have specific communication facilitators dependent upon the cultures involved. This is reflected in the theoretical development in the field of intercultural management, which gives…

Andreas Schirmer

Project Scheduling with Scarce Resources

Models, Methods, and Applications

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

Project scheduling deals with the allocation of scarce resources to activities over time. This conceptual framework embraces a multitude of management problems such as the sequencing of jobs in make-to-order production, the planning of courses in professional training, and the assigning of staff under flexible working conditions.

All such problems are notorious for being algorithmically intractable. For such problems, the author details a number of models which…

Andreas David Buttelmann

Understanding Different Components in Intentional Action

How Understanding Others‘ Mental States Helps to Learn From Others and Predict Their Behaviour

Schriften zur Entwicklungspsychologie

“Is there a human-specific understanding of others’ intentional actions?

It is important to answer this question since this understanding might be seen as the prerequisite for the development of sophisticated forms of social learning that then facilitated the development of human unique culture. The current study investigated whether great apes, like humans, interpret others’ actions in terms of the underlying mental states. In a series of studies, a variety…

Andreas 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…

Andreas Bernd Fischl

Sources of Finance of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises in Germany

Finanzmanagement

For the successful establishment of a company speed and higher liquidity are necessary. The science of entrepreneurial finance was a topic which probably lacked relevance in science and practice some time ago. Since the 1990s a change took place regarding this issue.

The increasing number of financial instruments and methods open up a wide range of possibilities even for young and new founded companies.

The choice of an adequate form of financing is…

Andreas Christoph Breig

Asset Pricing and Default Risk

Finanzmanagement

Since several decades, the financial markets price large amounts of money held in securities that face systematic and idiosyncratic risk. Thus, many theoretical and empirical asset pricing papers have addressed issues around the relationship between stock markets and systematic risk. Among others the following research topics have been discussed: the predictability of stock markets, the impact of economy-wide risk factors on equity returns, the modeling of such risk…

Andreas 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…