Wissenschaftliche Literatur Methods

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…

Angelika Goldstein & Biljana Golubović (eds.)

Foreign Language Movies – Dubbing vs. Subtitling

Schriften zur Medienwissenschaft

The subject of this volume is motion picture translation, that is, theories, methods and results of research aimed at various aspects of foreign movies and the implementation of motion pictures in foreign language classes.

This collection of papers on the translation of motion pictures consists of 15 contributions by authors from Europe, Canada, Australia and Asia, who all deal with this subject as part of their work in research and academia. Included are papers…

Que Anh Ha

The Reception of Trust in Different Legal Systems

Some Lessons for Vietnam. A Comparative Study

Finance, Insurance & Law

Vietnam is one of the fastest growing economies in South East Asia. Its booming economical cooperation and intensive relationship with other economies in the world have sometimes created legal situations that cannot be easily solved by either the Vietnamese law or the law of these countries. One of these situations involves Trust, a specific and very important legal institution of Common law system, but up till now still unknown in Vietnam. Besides, Vietnam has had very…

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 markets. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), for instance, has stressed in its study 'Market 2000' the importance of…

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 small and medium sized enterprises, which want to expand their businesses into the German markets. [...]

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 for the MC. This raises the questions whether longitudinal analyses, like transitions between labour market states, are biased…

Hans Norbert Mertens

The Creation of Balance in Architectural Competition

Methods of Strategic Practice Control

Strategisches Management

Bis heute gibt es in Deutschland keine öffentlich publizierten Managementsysteme für Architekturbüros. In den letzten Jahren wurden aber immer mehr Beiträge zu Einzelthemen wie Qualitätsmanagement, Projektcontrolling oder Büromanagement veröffentlicht. Das Anliegen dieser These besteht daher in der Entwicklung eines Controlling Systems für das 1990 gegründete Architekturbüro des Autors.

Auf Grundlage der Struktur der Weiterbildungsmodule der GSBA Zürich/1/ und…

Hans Norbert 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 published. Plenty of studies have been undertaken to determine the quality of this scientific communication medium. Surveys mainly…

Hans Norbert 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 Research“. He is a professor emeritus of Mathematics and Psychology at the University of Toronto and author of more than 400…

Sadegh Sadeghipour

Testing cycling software components of reactive systems on the basis of formal specifications

Forschungsergebnisse zur Informatik

Testing is the primary method through which the producer of software and the user or customer gain confidence that the software will work as intended or specified. Using formal methods, which is highly recommended by safety standard and legal requirements in the area of safety-critical embedded software systems, can improve the quality and efficiency of test activities.

In this book, two strategies for testing cyclic software components of reactive systems…