Wissenschaftliche Literatur Opportunities

Mojca K. Šebart / Andreja Hočevar

Delusions of Preschool Education

Does anyone care about the process quality anymore?

Frühpädagogik in Forschung und Praxis

How does the need for greater efficiency affect preschool education?

What happens if the focus of curriculum evaluation becomes the ratio between the length of child’s participation in preschool education and the learning outcomes at the initial and higher levels of education on the one hand, and the funds invested in preschool education on the other?

What changes in preschool institutions, if documents concerning development advocates that the…

Matthias K. W. Bandorf

Mode Switching from Component Manufacturer to System Supplier –
Requirements, Opportunities and Best Practices

A Resource-Based Reflection on R&D

Strategisches Management

Die produzierende Industrie steht vor einem tiefgreifenden Wandel. Unternehmen finden sich mehr denn je in verschärftem Wettbewerb wieder und sehen sich mit immer schneller verändernden Marktstrukturen, sowie dem Trend nach immer neuen innovativen Lösungen in immer kürzeren Zyklen konfrontiert. Insbesondere für den klassischen Komponentenhersteller stellt diese Entwicklung eine massive Bedrohung dar, denn sie impliziert, dass Exzellenz in der Entwicklung und Fertigung von…

Dominik Espen

China and the Law of the Sea

China’s Artificial Islands in the South China Sea

Völkerrecht, Europarecht, Vergleichendes Öffentliches Recht

How much do you have to artificially alter an island until it changes into an artificial island? What is an artificial island after all? When is an island an island and not just a rock? When is high tide really high tide? What is a human habitation or what is an economic life? What is an area of land?

What sound like philosophical questions are actually immensely important legal questions affecting Trillions of Dollars in world trade, crude oil and fishery…

Nina Krmac / Jurka Lepicnik Vodopivec

Employment Model of Career Counsellors at Universities

Studien zur Berufs- und Professionsforschung

For the development of the competence framework of career counsellors at universities we primarily explored in the theoretical part what competences a good counsellor should possess and what opportunities career counsellors have in European space to upgrade these competences.

In the framework of the qualitative part we got an in-depth insight into the opinions of three career counsellors: from Slovenia, from Austria, and from Portugal. The career counsellors…

Mathias Kube

The Economics of Open Innovation

Essays on Private and Public Actors in Systems of Innovation

Schriftenreihe innovative betriebswirtschaftliche Forschung und Praxis

In today‘s globalized world innovation plays a major role. For states, the generation of new knowledge through innovations impacts the economic development and the standard of living. For companies, innovation is crucial to achieve competitive advantage. Specifically the concept of Open Innovation has been advocated to improve innovative performance. This book explores the economics of Open Innovation in ‘Systems of Innovation‘ and related opportunities with a focus on…

Thomas Krikser

The Contribution of Foundations to an Ecofriendly and Sustainable Development

Studien zur Umweltpolitik

Foundations have become an important player for finding solutions for societal challenges. Besides other issues, environmental activities belong to the main topics of foundations. However, there is a lack of research on the contribution of environmental foundation for an ecofriendly and sustainable development. This scientific desideratum occurs especially in Germany where no comprehensive database on foundations exists, and only estimations about their environmental…

David Yakubu Anambam

Added Value of Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Non-Traditional Export Products in the Agricultural Sector of Ghana

Schriftenreihe agrarwissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse

Ghana just like most developing countries is facing the challenge of how to deal with high poverty rates coupled with declining prices of traditional export products. The export of non-traditional export products in the agricultural sector is considered as one of the strategies to address poverty. However, concerns are been raised about the free trade policy, stating that free trade may not necessarily be benefiting all participants equally. In other words, other nations,…

Darjo Felda, Mara Cotic, Sanja Maricic

Building Mathematical Literacy by Solving Realistic Problems

Didaktik in Forschung und Praxis

Today mathematics is characterized by increasing orientation toward developing the ability of thinking, towards acquiring knowledge that has applicative value in everyday life, developing students’ independence in learning, creation of the conditions that will foster the desire and need for learning the strategies of solving and investigating a variety of mathematical problems in the framework of problem situations. Solving problems represents one of the key competences…

Annika Schudak

Nutzergenerierte Produktbewertungen im Web 2.0 als Verbraucherinformation

Eine verbraucherpolitische Betrachtung

Studien zum Konsumentenverhalten

Das Web 2.0 ist mittlerweile fester Bestandteil des alltäglichen Lebens der meisten Menschen in Deutschland. Jeder kann sich im Internet aktiv beteiligen. Kauferfahrungen können nicht mehr nur im direkten Gespräch an Freunde und Bekannte weitergegeben werden, sondern erreichen im Internet eine potenziell unendliche Anzahl an Internetnutzern. Die Artikulation von Produktbewertungen im Web 2.0 überschreitet dabei räumliche und zeitliche Grenzen. Für den Verbraucher ist…

Martin Schneider

Resource Wealth and Sustainable Development

A Comparative Analysis of the GCC Countries

Studienreihe Volkswirtschaften der Welt

Natural resource-rich countries that are dependent on revenues generated from the sale of the resources, such as the Gulf Cooperation Council countries Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates face several challenges. They can be classified as challenges arising by nature (non-renewability and depletability) and by dependence on the natural resource. The challenges arising from dependence on resources are described in the resource curse…