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Ethics matters! Diese Einsicht führt dazu, für Personalmanager zweierlei zu fordern: eine umfassende Managementkompetenz sowie eine hohe ethische Handlungskompetenz. Dies hat Auswirkungen auf das professionelle Selbstverständnis von Personalmanagern. Letztlich werden Personalmanager im Unternehmen nur dann nachhaltig Erfolg haben, wenn es ihnen gelingt, unter Beachtung der sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Auswirkungen personalwirtschaftlichen Handelns einen Wertschöpfungsbeitrag zu generieren.
Damit stellt die Interpretation eines unternehmerisch denkenden Personalmanagers, der als Business Partner den Wertschöpfungsbeitrag vor Augen hat und die Interessen des Unternehmens auch gegen Widerstände der Mitarbeiter durchsetzt, eine deutlich verkürzte dar. Zwar ist diese verkürzte Interpretation nicht die derzeit überall vorherrschende Auslegung der Rolle des Personalmanagements. Trotzdem sollten und könnten Personalmanager künftig - beispielsweise in Zeitschriften, auf Tagungen und Kongressen - wieder stärker über die ethischen Grundlagen der Profession streiten. Dies wäre ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Professionalisierung des Personalmanagements.
Mastering of complex systems and interfaces, idea and innovation management as well as virtually integrated product and process planning are essential competences to be developed and fostered to cope with the changing role of the workforce in a future industry 4.0 work system. Learning factories, like the Logistics Learning Factory at Reutlingen University, which are equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure, offer a high potential to decidedly address these competences.
Executive education in IS is under the scrutiny of many institution for the potential to bring in financial revenues. However teaching executives can be a very challenging task because of the previous experiences, variation in their previous education, and multiplicity of motivations for pursuing a continuous education. The panel aims at sharing successful experiences and highlighting challenges of dealing with executive audiences. The panel will present the results of a large survey among executive students and identify the three most significant elements emerged from the survey: the importance of theory that is actionable, the importance of varied pedagogical tools and practices, and the importance of relevance beyond practical tools. Based on a survey that will be distributed to the audience at the beginning of the panel, the audience will be actively engaged in sharing their experiences on the three topics aiming at capitalize and sum up the collective knowledge of the room.
As "the most international company on earth", DHL Express promised to deliver packages between almost any pair of countries within a defined time-frame. To fulfill this promise, the company had introduced a set of global business and technology standards. While standardization had many advantages (improving service for multinational customers, faster response to changes in import/export regulations, sharing of best practices etc.), it created impediments to local innovation and responsiveness in DHL Express' network of 220 countries/territories. Reconciling standardization-innovation tradeoffs is a critical management issue for global companies in the digital economy.
This case describes one large, successful company's approach to the tradeoff of standardization versus innovation.
Started as a mono-line focused purely on savings, in late 2012 ING Direct Spain was becoming a full-service bank. To this end, the bank had substantially increased its product- and channel-portfolio. ING Direct Spain originally provided "simple", "good value for money" products in an "easy to deal with" way at low cost supported by a direct model. But with the growth in its product portfolio during the previous decade and the ambitious goal of becoming a full-service bank, an increase in complexity seemed inevitable. Like many businesses in the global, digital economy, ING Direct Spain found it needed to decide which complexity created value for its customers and which one not. It also learned that IT can contribute to complexity and/or help manage complexity.
This case offers a close look at challenges of growing a company by increasing product complexity to provide comprehensive yet simple services.
This article briefly describes reasons for dramatising poetry in the language classroom and then gives practical descriptions of how poetry can be taken ‘from page to stage’. It focusses on the aspects content, form and context of poems and how they can be dramatised. A special focus is on working with Shakespearean sonnets but the ideas can be transferred to other types of poetry as well.
Since its early beginnings in the form of correspondence schools, e-learning has generally sought to provide flexibility and high quality education. While these are indeed noble intentions, the reality of today's connected world demands that such programs focus on a different purpose. As the main purpose of e-learning shifts, so must be the design approaches.
Rethinking e-learning requires open-mindedness on the part of academies, designers, cyber educators, legislators, IT and administrators, but also the learners themselves. All who are involved in or impacted by e-learning programs must speak up and finally share their perspectives, but who will be listening? The key to rethinking e-learning lies in the ability of the stakeholders to listen to each other and make decisions which are in the best interest of the learner.
This chapter will propose a new purpose for e-learning and explore promising possibilities for learner-centered design. The future of e-learning can be shaped by the decisions made today, but before any decisions can be made, one must acknowledge e-learning's successes as well as its shortcomings. The purpose of this chapter is to encourage those who are impacted by e-learning to think about the future.
This paper describes the design and outcomes of an experimental study that addresses stock-and-flow-failure from a cognitive perspective. It is based on the assumption that holistic (global) and analytic (local) processing are important cognitive mechanisms underlying the ability to infer the behavior of dynamic systems. In a stock-and-flow task that is structurally equivalent to the department store task, we varied the format in which participants are primed to think about an environmental system, in particular whether they are primed to concentrate on lower-level (local) or higher-level (global) system elements. 148 psychology, geography and business students participated in our study. Students’ answers support our hypothesis that global processing increases participants’ ability to infer the overall system behavior. The beneficial influence of global presentation is even stronger when data are presented numerically rather than in the form of a graph. Our results suggest presenting complex dynamic systems in a way that facilitates global processing. This is particularly important as policy-designers and decision makers deal with complex issues in their everyday and professional life.
SF-failure, the inability of people to correctly determine the behavior of simple stock and flow structures is subject of a long research stream. Reasons for SF-failure can be attributed to different reasons, one of them being lacking domain specific experience, thus familiarity with the problem context. In this article we present a continuation of an experiment to examine the role of educational background in SF-performance. We base the question set on the Bathtub Dynamics tasks introduced by Booth Sweeney and Sterman (2000) and vary the cover stories. In this paper we describe how we developed and tested a new cover story for the engineering domain and implemented the recommendations from a prior study. We test three sets of questions with engineering students which enables us to compare the results to a previous study in which we tested the questions with business students. Results mainly support our hypothesis that context familiarity increases SF-performance. With our findings we further develop the methodology of the research on SF-failure.
IOS 2.0 : new aspects on inter-organizational integration through enterprise 2.0 technologies
(2015)
This special theme of „Electronic Markets“ focuses on research concerned with the use of social technologies and "2.0" principles in the interaction between organization (i.e., with "inter-organizational systems (IOS) 2.0"). This theme falls within the larger space of Enterprise 2.0 research, but focuses in particular on inter-organizational use (between enterprises), not intra-organizational use (in a single enterprise). While there is great interest in practice regarding the use of 2.0 technologies to support intra-organizational communication, collaboration and interaction, information systems (IS) research has largely been oblivious to this important use of social technologies.
It has been recognized that to increase the competetitiveness of international higher education institutions in the global education market, their international graduates' employability must be enhanced. The present paper investigates, from the employers' perspective, the possibilities of international graduates with domestic degrees in Russia and Germany to find jobs in the Russian and German labor market. It uses qualitative open-ended interviews at 12 companies in St. Petersburg, Russia and Germany, which are engaged with International Business activities. The investigation concentrates on the employment opportunities and barriers of international graduates from an individual, organizational and an institutional perspective.
The research highlighted the main differences and similarities in the perception of the HR managers in both countries. In the German labor market, companies have a high demand for international graduates, especially those operating internationally, highly demand international graduates, emphasizing the existence of international trainee programs and the need to reflect the diversity of their business in the diversity of their staff. In contrast, Russian companies showed a positive predisposition for international graduates but no demand. Domestic firms focus their efforts on expatriate programs and/or highly-qualified specialists rather than trainee programs to hire internationals. On the other hand, insitutional barriers exist, as well as a lack of support with regards to regulations and requirements for entering both Russian and German markets. The national language requirement was stressed as the major barrier towards hiring internationals in both countries. The investigation from an organizational point of view revealed that interviewers showed a positive predisposition towards international graduates in both countries, focusing on the graduate's skill set rather than their nationality. This research explores the opportunities and barriers and discusses the implications for students and universities.
Projektmanagement
(2015)
Komplexe Aufgaben erfordern geeignete Planungs- und Steuerungstechniken. Der Projektleiter muss kontinuierlich Termine, Kosten, Qualität im Griff behalten und sein Team anleiten und motivieren. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie Sie unterschiedliche Anforderungen meistern und Projekte erfolgreich zum Abschluss bringen.
The EU funded project RobLog recently developed a system able to autonomously unload coffee sacks from a standard container. Being the first of its kind, a further development is needed in order for the system to be competitive against manual labor. Financing this development entails a risk, hence a justified skepticism, which can be overcome by the longsighted view of the existing market potential. This paper presents a method to estimate the market potential of autonomous unloading systems for heavy deformable goods. Starting from the analysis of the coffee trade, first the current coffee traffic is investigated in order to calculate the number of autonomous systems needed to handle the imported sacks; Results are validated and the method is extended for the calculation of the potential of other market segments, where the same unloading technology can be applied.
According to a recent survey the great majority of players in logistics are planning to adopt one or more robotic solutions until 2019. Technical solutions for automation of processes in logistics are often available as a market-ready product, but the lack of standardization and skepticism towards long term investments are often the reasons why these solutions are not implemented on a large scale. This paper is set to bridge the gap between the world of technologies and the one of applications in order to help investors, robot producers and system integrators to decide on which branch of logistics to set their focus. The three main branches Courier Express Parcel (CEP), contract logistics and production logistics are briefly defined and distinguished through their characteristic factors and parameters. Then a method based on the analysis of three parameters (operative costs, required performance and flexibility) in the three branches is set to identify the most convenient branch of logistics for investing in new technologies, namely the one in which the risk of investment is lower, the return is higher and faster. The conclusion of the method shows that higher labor costs, strict regulations and higher standardization make the production logistics the most suitable branch for investments in emerging automation solutions.
As long as there have been professional sports, there have been relationships on different levels. For example, sponsorship (or patronage as it was called in the early days) was mostly based on personal relations between the local benefactors and their favourite sports club. Regarding media, clubs always maintained special relationships with selected journalists. The bond between fans and their clubs was always a close and mutually beneficial one. All these relationships existed from the start of the sports business. Therefore, relationship marketing is nothing new in the context of sports. Many sporting organisations always knew to value a deep and good relationship with their stakeholders and practised relationship marketing without being aware of it. Successful sports managers, however, take the old wisdom and turn it into a modern relationship marketing approach by structuring the various relationships in order to make them more effective and profitable for the own sporting organisation and the various stakeholders. This chapter ... illustrates the many facets of relationship marketing and the possibilities it offers in the context of the sports business.
For many companies, it is major international sporting events (in particular the Football World Cup or the Olympic Games) that constitute the ideal platform for the integration of their target group-specific marketing communication into an attractive sports environment. Sports event organizers sell exclusive marketing rights for their events to official sponsors, who, in return, acquire exclusive options to utilize the event for their own advertising purposes. Ambush marketing is the method used by companies that do not hold marketin rights to an event, but still use their marketing activities in diverse ways to establish a connection to it. There is still whidespread debate and confusion about the topic. Ambush marketing is often defined in different ways, by different people, according to their position as either supporters of opponents of the practice.
In this paper it is first identified the trade-off among costs, flexibility and performances of autonomous robotic solutions for material handling processes, where adding value with automation is not as trivial as in production processes: hence the requirement for automated solutions to be simple, lean and efficient becomes even stricter. Then a method for modelling and comparing differential performances and costs of manual and autonomous solutions is developed. As a result of the method, a smart man-machine collaborative interface is designed and its impact evaluated on a specific case of study. Results are then generalized and prove the strong conclusions that in unconstrained environments, where full standardization cannot be achieved, the risk of investing in autonomous solutions can only be mitigated by creating a fast and smart man-machine collaborative interface.
Die steigende Personalisierbarkeit von Produkten fuhrt zu einem wachsenden Variantenspektrum in der Fertigung. Nicht zuletzt aufgrund der damit einhergehenden Produktionskomplexität und den hohen Wandlungsanforderungen an die Montage werden viele komplexe Stückgüter weiterhin überwiegend manuell montiert. Visuelle Assistenzsysteme geben den Mitarbeitern die nötige Handlungsunterstützung, wenn kein Produkt dem anderen gleicht und damit das Fehlerpotenzial steigt.
Anhaltend hohe Mitarbeitermotivation ist die zentrale Voraussetzung für erfolgreichen Vertrieb. Doch viel zu häufig versuchen Unternehmen, ihre Vertriebsmitarbeiter allein durch Einzelimpulse und durchsichtige Anreizsysteme zu motivieren. Dies kann nicht gelingen. Stattdessen sind eine langfristige Perspektive und ein intelligenter Mix verschiedener Instrumente nötig.
Der Begriff Value-Based-Selling kam erstmals in Europa zur Jahrtausendwende in Mode. Doch so neu ist das wertorientierte Verkaufen nun auch wieder nicht. So wird doch jeder gute Verkäufer dem Kunden stets die Kundenvorteile ausreichend transparent machen. Das war doch schon immer so, auch wenn das früher niemand mit Value Based-Selling bezeichnet hatte. Doch eine kundennutzenorientierte Formulierung im Verkaufsgespräch ist nur eine Seite der Medaille. Der Ansatz des Value-Based Selling geht weit darüber hinaus. Er hat mehr Substanz, als weitläufig bekannt ist.
Guerilla Marketing im Sport
(2016)
Aufgrund der zunehmenden Informationsüberlastung der Konsumenten und der daraus resultierenden, steigenden Reaktanz der Rezipienten, sehen sich klassische Werbeformate einer sinkenden Werbeeffizienz ausgesetzt. Mit Hilfe von emotionsbeladenen Botschaften, die auf innovative, spektakuläre und teilweise provokante Art und Weise vermittelt werden, differenziert sich der Guerilla Marketer im Kommunikationswettbewerb und ergänzt den herkömmlichen Marketing-Mix um unkonventionelle Instrumente. Der vorliegende Beitrag behandelt das Thema Guerilla Marketing im Sport. Die Analyse und Einordnung praktischer Beispiele aus dem Sportmarketing in den marketingpolitischen Gesamtkontext zeigt, dass der Sport eine hochemotionale und äußerst medienwirksame Plattform für überraschende Guerilla Marketing Aktionen bietet, mit der sich Unternehmen aus nahezu allen Branchen profilieren und von einem Imagetransfer vom Sport hin zur Marke profitieren möchten.
Globale Beschaffungsstrukturen, Konsumgüterproduktion in Entwicklungsländern, Unternehmensethik und Sozialstandards - Sachverhalte, die im Zeitalter der Globalisierung an Bedeutung gewinnen und darauf hinweisen, dass Länder der Dritten Welt eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle in weltweiten Wertschöpfungsketten westlicher Unternehmen einnehmen. Dieser wachsende Anteil vieler Entwicklungsländer am Welthandel ist entwicklungspolitisch als großer Fortschritt zu sehen, weil diese stärker als in der Vergangenheit an Wachstum und Wohlstand teilhaben können. Leider verläuft dieser Aufholprozess aber nicht störungsfrei, da der damit einhergehende Verlagerungsprozess arbeitsintensiver Produktion oftmals zur Folge hat, dass westliche Konsumgüter in diesen Ländern unter menschenrechtlich untragbaren Bedingungen hergestellt werden, um Arbeits- und Herstellungskosten auf ein Minimum zu reduzieren sowie arbeitsrechtlichen Regelungen auf globaler Ebene zu entgehen. In einer übergeordneten Sichtweise geht es also um das Spannungsfeld von Ökonomie und Ethik, was seit langem Leitthema der Wirtschaftsethik ist. Dabei stellt sich die Frage, inwieweit diese einen Beitrag zu einer Globalisierung mit menschlichem Antlitz leisten kann. Zu diesem Zweck untersucht das vorliegende Buch, ob das Managementkonzept der Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) zu einer Lösung und schrittweisen Annäherung von Ökonomie und Ethik im Globalisierungskontext führen kann. Angesichts der mangelnden Durchsetzbarkeit staatlich dirigistischer Strukturen auf internationaler Ebene wird daher die Frage nach dem Ort der Verantwortung neu gestellt und damit beantwortet, dass es vor allem Unternehmen und deren weltweiten Netzwerke sind, die durch ihr ethisch reflektiertes Handeln zu einer sozialeren Globalisierung beitragen können. Um diese jedoch verstärkt dazu zu motivieren, dieser Verantwortung nachzukommen, liegt ein besonderer Schwerpunkt dieses Buches auf der Entwicklung des CSR Business Case und der Frage, welche Faktoren entscheidend sind, wenn es um den betriebswirtschaftlichen Erfolg ethischen Engagements geht. Dafür ist es neben einer prozessorientierten Umsetzung in Produktion und Beschaffung ebenso wichtig, dieses Engagement mit Hilfe CSR-relevanter Marketinginstrumente an die Verbraucher zu kommunizieren und damit in ihr Bewusstsein sowie auf ihren Konsum- und Kaufradar zu bringen. In diesem Sinne werden die jeweils erforderlichen Implementierungsschritte und -instrumente so detailliert ausgearbeitet, dass sie unmittelbare Praxisrelevanz bekommen und zeigen, wie man von der hohen Abstraktionsebene der Globalisierung auf die Umsetzungsebene der Unternehmen gelangt und wie mit der anfänglichen Polarität zwischen Ethik und Ökonomie umgegangen werden kann. Somit soll das, was kurzfristig als Dilemma und Zielkonflikt erscheint, langfristig in ein produktives Handlungsfeld übersetzt werden, indem v.a. mittelständischen Unternehmen konkrete CSR-Handlungskompetenz an die Hand gegeben wird, weil diese aufgrund ihres enormen Stellenwerts in der deutschen Wirtschaft eine wichtige Rolle einnehmen können, CSR auf breiter Ebene durchzusetzen.
Ambush marketing in sports
(2014)
A sports event organizer sells exclusive marketing rights for his event to official sponsors, who, in return, acquire exclusive options to utilize the event for their own advertising purposes. Ambush marketing is the practice by companies of using their own marketing, particularly marketing communications activities, to create an impression of an association with the event to the event audience, although the companies in question have no legal or only underprivileged or non-exclusive marketing rights for this event sponsored by third parties. So, the objective of ambush marketing is to benefit from the success of sports sponsorship without having the duties of an official sponsor.
It is fine line between creative marketing communication and infringing on sponsorship rights. From the perspective of the event organizers and sports sponsors ambush marketing represents an understandable threat, while from the perspective of the ambushers it offers the opportunity to reach the target audience in an attractive environment and at affordable cost. The paper defines and structures the phenomenon of ambush marketing and analyses the impacts of ambush marketing in sports. The results of an empirical study on the effects of ambush marketing in the frame of the FIFA Soccer World cup are presented and discussed.
Der Zusammenbruch des Systems der Arbeiterselbstverwaltung und der sich daran anschließende Transformationsprozess zogen einen sektoralen Strukturwandel der kroatischen Volkswirtschaft nach sich. Die forcierte Deindustrialisierung und Tertiarisierung führte allerdings zu massiven Fehlentwicklungen, die bis eute die wirtschaftliche Lage des Landes bestimmen.
In der Untersuchung wird daher der Frage nachgegangen, inwieweit ein Tertiarisierungsprozess für ein Transformationsland wie Kroatien als Option für eine erfolgreiche wirtschaftliche Entwicklung zu bewerten ist. Dafür müssen zunächst grundlegende theoretische Ansätze zu den Themengebieten Wachstum und Strukturwandel beschrieben, beurteilt und systematisiert werden. Hierbei zeigt sich, dass neuere modelltheoretische Untersuchungen weiterhin an der demand bias- und productivity bias-Hypothese gemäß Fourastié (1949) und Baumol (1967) ansetzen, um die Triebkräfte der wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung hin zu einer Dienstleistungsgesellschaft zu erklären. Die Autorin identifiziert dabei zwei Theoriestränge: Einerseits wird in der Literatur versucht, die Überlegungen zum strukturellen Wandel mit der Wachstumstheorie "zu versöhnen", d. h. zu verbinden. Andererseits werden "Heilungschancen" der Baumolschen Kostenkrankheit auf Basis der Determinanten der Endogenen Wachstumstheorie und der Innovationsmerkmale von Dienstleistungen formuliert. Empirische Untersuchungen zum sektoralen Strukturwandel in ausgewählten europäischen Wohlfahrtsstaatssystemen zeigen weiterhin auf, dass die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung eines Landes zudem von gesellschaftlichen und politischen Faktoren bestimmt wird.
Im zweiten Teil der Studie werden mithilfe des theoretischen Instrumentariums die drei Entwicklungsstufen der kroatischen Volkswirtschaft seit dem Zweiten Weltkrieg nachgezeichnet. Dabei zeigt sich, dass in der ersten Phase die Mängel der Arbeiterselbstverwaltung einen strukturellen Wandel und Produktivitätswachstum behinderten, während in den 1990er Jahren insbesondere die verfehlte Wirtschafts- und Sozialpolitik zu negativen volkswirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Folgen führte. Während des forcierten Integrationsprozesses in die EU wirkte sich die in der zweiten Hälfte der 2000er-Jahre einsetzende Wirtschaftskrise negativ auf den kroatischen Arbeitsmarkt aus. Die Analyse der Innovationsfähigkeit der kroatischen Wirtschaft sowie die Zusammenfassung der zentralen Erkenntnisse im letzten Teil der Studie zeigen auf, dass Wachstum und Beschäftigung zukünftig gefördert werden können, wenn in Kroatien der strukturelle und gesellschaftliche Wandel weiter fortgesetzt wird.
Beschleunigung und Reorientierung des technischen Fortschritts überfordern selbst große Unternehmen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Spezialisierung und interdisziplinärer Konvergenz. So wird die Kombination interner Forschung und Entwicklung mit externem Wissen, vor allem in Hochtechnologien, zur zentralen Voraussetzung langfristigen Unternehmenserfolgs. In diesem Kontext untersucht die vorliegende Dissertation das Potenzial kooperativen Verhaltens zwischen Unternehmen zur Bewältigung technologischer Diskontinuitäten am Beispiel des bevorstehenden Paradigmenwechsels im automobilen Antrieb. Dabei wird Kooperation als superiore Strategie zur Stimulation des explorativen Innovationsmodus identifiziert und in eine übergreifende Dynamik der Koordinationseignung im Verlauf technologischen Fortschritts integriert. Bezogen auf den automobilen Antrieb ist eine nachhaltigkeitsinduzierte Destabilisierung des technologischen Paradigmas des Verbrennungsmotors festzustellen, während sich seine intensiven Möglichkeiten erschöpfen. Konsequenz dessen ist zunehmender Innovationsdruck, der konsistenzorientiert eine systemische Transformation von Kraftwerkstechnik und Energienetz sowie einen Paradigmenwechsel zu elektrischen Antrieben erzwingt. Aufgrund der bisher geringen technologischen Reife und hohen Kosten elektrischer Antriebssysteme zeichnet sich allerdings ein Übergang in Form einer graduellen Rekonfiguration über eine Hybridphase ab, deren Dynamik maßgeblich von der Entwicklung der technoökonomischen Schlüsselmodule Batterie und Brennstoffzelle abhängt. Die dazu erforderliche technologische Transformation birgt existenzielle Gefährdungen für die etablierten Unternehmen der Automobilindustrie, die sich gegenüber ihren Herausforderern explorationsbezogen in einer inferioren Ausgangssituation befinden. Eben hier bieten sich umfangreiche Potenziale kooperativer Exploration elektrischer Antriebe auf Verhaltens-, Innovationsprozess und Wissensebene. In Relation zu diesen erscheint das reale Kooperationsniveau jedoch als gering, volatil und, vor allem in Deutschland, übermäßig intrasektoral fokussiert.
Aus diesen Erkenntnissen ergeben sich Implikationen für Unternehmensführung, Innovationspolitik und Forschung. Managementseitig besteht die zentrale Herausforderung in der Befähigung der Organisation zu Dynamisierung von Wissen und Fähigkeiten durch simultan-heterogene Koordination explorativer und exploitativer Innovationsströme. Insbesondere die Erschließung kooperativer Potenziale setzt allerdings die Bereitschaft zur Einschränkung der eigenen Unabhängigkeit sowie zur Abweichung von bewährten Verhaltensmustern voraus. Innovationspolitisch steht die Überwindung von Beharrungskräften durch Anpassung des sozio-institutionellen Rahmens sowie die Förderung langfristiger Kooperation bei potenzialgeleiteter Intersektorialität im Vordergrund. Forschungsbezogen eröffnet speziell die Kombination von Innovations- Nachhaltigkeits- und Koordinationstheorie ein besseres Verständnis von Triebfedern und Dynamik technischen Fortschritts, das weiter vertieft werden sollte.
Creating an image transfer through event marketing : principles, requirements and consequences
(2015)
Event marketing is primarily implemented to emotionalize the target group. So, the most important objective of marketing events is to improve the image of a brand or a company. In this paper an image transfer model for event marketing is introduced. As a basis, the principles of event marketing are presented. After that, the state of the art in attitude and image research is discussed. Based on current research, an image transfer model for event marketing is developed and the conditions required for an image transfer to take place from an event to a brand or a company are explained. Depending on which conditions are met, there are different consequences with regard to the image transfer from the event to the brand or company that are structured and characterized in detail.
Success in human resource management (HRM) depends on the question of whether applied practices of HRM meet specific contingency factors and are appropriately configured. Using this argument, the present article examines HRM in professional service firms (PSFs) in pursuit of three objectives. First, we introduce a conceptual framework that illustrates how the constitutive characteristics of PSFs, as contingency factors, influence HRM practices and research. Second, based on this framework, we summarize key findings of research on HRM in PSFs and open up potential avenues for further research. Third, we reflect on the argument that HRM in PSFs can contribute to an understanding of HRM practices in other organizational settings, leading to the question of the mutual transferability of HRM practices. Aside from these three primary objectives, we also introduce the contents of the special issue.
Die Ticketpreise im Spitzenfußball werden immer höher. In den vergangenen Tagen haben Proteste von Fußball-Fans gegen zu hohe Ticketpreise von Vereinen international für Aufsehen gesorgt. Zuletzt protestierten Fans des FC Liverpool und von Borussia Dortmund gegen den Wucher. Dabei gehen die Vereine ein großes Risiko ein - denn Fans, die im Stadion ihre Mannschaft anfeuern und für eine entsprechende Stimmung sorgen, sind für die Vereine sehr wichtig. Was es mit den jüngsten Vorkommnissen auf sich hat und welche sportökonomischen Zusammenhänge dahinterstecken, wird im vorliegenden Beitrag erläutert.
Sportmarketing ist die spezifische Anwendung der Marketing-Prinzipien und -Prozesse auf Sportprodukte und Sportdienstleistungen im Sinne der marktorientierten Unternehmensführung. Die Prinzipien des allgemeinen Marketing können allerdings nicht ohne weiteres auf den Sport übertragen werden. Vielmehr wird ein eigenständiger Ansatz benötigt, wenn anstelle von klassischen Produkten oder Dienstleistungen der Sport ins Zentrum der Betrachtung rückt. Ein zentrales Unterscheidungsmerkmal zwischen Sportmarketing und klassischem Marketing ist der Kunde. Sportfans unterscheiden sich in vielerlei Hinsicht fundamental von Konsumenten normaler Produkte, worauf im vorliegenden Beitrag eingegangen wird.
Dieses Lehrbuch bietet eine verständliche Darstellung eines zentralen Teilgebiets der Ökonomik. Da Inhalt und Aussagewert der Mikroökonomik häufig dadurch unklar bleiben, dass die Studenten zu viel rechnen müssen und dabei nicht mehr genügend zum Denken kommen, wird die Algebra in nur sparsamer Dosierung eingesetzt. Dafür stellt das Buch die grundlegenden Fragestellungen und Modelle umso klarer und lesefreundlicher dar und unterstützt das Lernen mit zahlreichen Kontrollfragen.
In academia and industry learning factories are established as close-to-reality learning environments for education and training in the manufacturing domain. Although the approach and concept of existing learning factories is often similar, orientation and design of individual facilities are diverse. So far, there is no structured framework to describe learning factory approaches. In the paper a multidimensional description model is presented in form of a morphology which can be used as a starting point for the structuring and classification of existing learning factory application scenarios as well as a support for the development and improvement of learning factory approaches.
Shorter product life cycles and emerging technologies in the field of industrial equipment are changing the prerequisites and circumstances under which the design of assembly and logistics systems take place. Planners have to adapt the production in accordance with the underlying product at a higher pace, oversee a more complex system and - most importantly - find the ideal solution for functional as well as social interaction between humans and machines in a cyber-physical system. Such collaborative work systems consider the individual capabilities and potentials of humans and machines to combine them in a manner that assists the operator during his daily work routine towards more productive, less burdening work. To be able to design work systems which act on that maxim, specific competences such as the ability of integrated process and product planning as well as systems and interface competence are required. The ESB Logistics Learning Factory trains students as well as professionals to gain such qualification by providing a close-to-reality learning environment based on a didactical concept which covers all relevant methods for ergonomic work system design and a state-of-the-art infrastructure composed of a manual assembly system, service robots, visual assistance systems, sensor-based work load monitoring and logistical resources. Group-based, activity oriented scenarios enable the participants to put the learnings into practice within their professional environments. By this, learning factories have an indirect impact on the transfer of proven best practices to the industry and thereby on the diffusion of the idea of human-centric working environment.
By integrating its previously separate insurance, banking and investment products around customer life events (e.g., buying a car, getting married or buying a house), USAA is able to deliver a superior customer experience. To achieve the integration, USAA had to re-architect its business by redesigning structures, roles, incentives, processes and IT systems. The USAA case provides four principles for architecting a business to provide superior customer experience, which will become increasingly important in the digital economy.
In the last decade, numerous learning factories for education, training, and research have been built up in industry and academia. In recent years learning factory initiatives were elevated from a local to a European and then to a worldwide level. In 2014 the CIRP Collaborative Working Group (CWG) on Learning Factories enables a lively exchange on the topic "Learning Factories for future oriented research and education in manufacturing". In this paper results of discussions inside the CWG are presented. First, what is meant by the term Learning Factory is outlined. Second, based on the definition a description model (morphology) for learning factories is presented. The morphology covers the most relevant characteristics and features of learning factories in seven dimensions. Third, following the morphology the actual variance of learning factory manifestations is shown in six learning factory application scenarios from industrial training over education to research. Finally, future prospects of the learning factory concept are presented.
We investigate public debt sustainability in Europe and leading industrialised countries. The recent debate about the debt ceiling in the US and the sovereign debt crisis in Europe demonstrate the urgency of the topic. We measure debt sustainability of public finance with a standard and alternative methodology and compare both results. We use panel data of 205 OECD countries from 1970 to 2014. The paper finds unsustainable public debt levels for almost all countries in the past decades. Furthermore, given the low economic growth and demographic challenge ahead, debt levels may upsurge even more. There is a huge looming ‘debt meltdown’ on the horizon if countries do not change public policy soon.
This paper examines the determinants of Google search in the banking area. The weekly Google data from 2004 to 2013 used for this study consists of the 30 largest banks, the Federal Reserve, and the European Central Bank. To my knowledge, this is the first study on the determinants of Google data. Firstly the paper shows that Google searches are correlated with several performance variables and market data, such as asset prices and trading volume. Secondly it demonstrates that banks´ internal performance data has a major influence whereas market data is rather insignificant. Moreover it is shown that Google search for central banks is largely determined by the level of interest rates as well as the inflation and output gap. This is evidence that central bank attention is primarily driven by the policy targets. Accordingly Google data can be applied to analyze the timely impact of monetary policy.
Venture capital and the innovative power of a state : econometric study including Google data
(2015)
This article focuses on venture capital investments and the innovative power of a state defined by its public infrastructure. The economic implications are evaluated by estimating several panel regression models. The novelty is twofold: on the one hand the research approach and on the other hand the new data set. The data ranges from 1995 to 2014 and consists of 10 European countries plus the US and Canada. For the first time we include Google search data on Venture Capital. The results show a significant increase in Venture Capital is mainly determined by economic conditions such as real GDP growth. The impact of the innovative power of a state is not significant. We find that Google data is positively related and significant in respect to Venture Capital investments too. Consequently, we confirm that private business investments cannot be created by government policy alone rather via solid macroeconomic conditions.
This paper is a review about the book "Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises" by Timothy Geithner. The book mainly discusses the policy decisions and implications of T. Geithner during his job as New York FED president and US-Treasury secretary under president Obama. The book reveals some hidden information about the decision-making process in both institutions. But it lacks a scientific foundation in order to explain the financial crisis in more detail. Hence, I think the book is less convincing than recognized in public. No doubt, Geithner crisis response deserves appreciation especially the "Stress Test". However, the overall book does not demonstrate that the response is sustainable in the long run and scientifically sound. Consequently, it is more a book on public policy and governance than economics.
Marketing channels are among the most important elements of any value chain. This is because the bulk of a nation´s manufacturing output flows through them. The intermediaries (e.g., distributors, wholesalers, retailers) constituting marketing channels perform specific distribution functions,such as transportation, storage, sales, financing, and relationship building, better than most manufacturers. Over his distinguished career, Louis P. Bucklin investigated many questions about the structuring and functioning of marketing channels using conceptual, empirical, and microeconomics model-based methodologies. Today, the academic marketing literature contains hundreds of articles that have employed these three broad classes of methodologies to investigate issues of channel intermediaries´ interorganizational relationships, for example, power-dependence, relational outcomes, conflict and negotiations, and manufacturing firms´ channel strategy, for example, channel structure, selection, coordination and control. So far, however, there has been no review of how the three different methodologies have contributed to advancing knowledge across this set of channels research domains.
This booklet will give you an overview of the development of CSR from a (brief) historic point of view and will examine the underlying concepts and research. Furthermore, examples of contemporary CSR management will be explored to show how companies Interpret the issue and how they face the challenges of managing the new demands placed upon them. Business, in the end, comes down to figures and numbers which give management, shareholders and stakeholders a chance to measure a company’s success. Therefore, modern methods and approaches for measuring, rating and ranking a company’s CSR management will be presented. Finally, an attempt will be made to evaluate CSR as a tool for increasing global welfare and as a business and management strategy for companies and entrepreneurs.
A major lesson of the recent financial crisis is that money market freezes have major macroeconomic implications. This paper develops a tractable model in which we analyze the microeconomic and macroeconomic implications of a systemic banking crisis. In particular, we consider how the systemic crisis affects the optimal allocation of funding for businesses. We show that a central bank should reduce the interest rate to manage a systemic shock and hence smooth the macroeconomic consequences. Moreover, the analysis offers insight on the rational of bank behavior and the role of markets in a systemic crisis. We find that the failure to adopt the optimal policy can lead to economic fragility.
This paper provides new evidence on the formation and anchoring of inflation expectations. I conduct a game experiment and analyze the adjustment as well as the impact of credible targets on expectations. In addition, I evaluate the idiosyncratic determinants on the formation of expectations. The analysis reveals six results: First, I find evidence that long-term inflation expectations are firmly anchored to a credible target. Second, a temporary deviation due to unexpected monetary policy might trigger a decline in credibility, and third a de-anchoring of expectations due to uncertainty. Fourth, I find that people change their expectations little if a credible target exists. Fifth, expectations exhibit a large degree of time-variance only in environments without a target. Sixth, the dynamic adjustment to an ‘incomplete’ equilibrium, which is theoretically unstable, is nevertheless rapid and persistent in case of credible targets. All in all, I demonstrate a unique game setup with contributions to both experimental and monetary economics.
Zwar war die Dramapädagogik nicht Konferenzschwerpunkt und eine eigene Sektion zum Thema wurde nicht – wie etwa 2009 – angeboten, dennoch gab es auf dem 26. DGFF Kongress meiner Ansicht nach für am Thema interessierte Lehrende und Forschende gute Impulse und Einblicke in einige derzeit im deutschsprachigen Raum laufende dramapädagogische Forschungsprojekte. Als mögliche Themen für weitere Forschung und/oder dramapädagogische 'Lobbyarbeit' schienen sich jedoch zwei Bereiche besonders herauszukristallieren: Wie können dramapädagogischer Elemente sinnvoll in den regulären Unterrichtsablauf eingebettet werden, so, dass diese Elemente von Lehrkräften und Schülern nicht nur als dekoratives 'nice to have' (etwa für die letzten 10 Minuten der Stunde) empfunden werden? Und sind dramapädagogische Elemente tatsächlich nur etwas für Lehrkräfte und Lernende mit besonderem 'Talent' und/oder 'Neigung', wie es offenbar diverse KongressteilnehmerInnen empfanden, oder können sie von allen Lehrkräften für alle Lernenden angewendet werden? In diesem Zusammenhang wäre eine weitere Etablierung der Vermittlung von dramapädagogischen Methoden als regulärem Bestandteil einer Lehramtsausbildung sicherlich wünschenswert.
This paper develops a linear and tractable model of financial bubbles. I demonstrate the application of the linear model and study the root causes of financial bubbles. Moreover, I derive leading properties of bubbles. This model enables investors and regulators to react to market dynamics in a timely manner. In conclusion, the linear model is helpful for the empirical verification and detection of financial bubbles.
Usually financial crises go along with bubbles in asset prices, such as the housing bubble in the US in 2007. This paper attempts to build a mathematical model of financial bubbles from an econophysics, and thus a new perspective. I find that agents identify bubbles only with a time delay. Furthermore, I demonstrate that the detection of bubbles is different on either the individual or collective point of view. Second, I utilize the findings for a new definition of asset bubbles in finance. Finally, I extend the model to the study of asset price dynamics with news. In conclusion, the model provides unique insights into the properties and developments of financial bubbles.
This paper establishes a unique linkage between economic and sociological theories. I study the root causes of the euro crisis from both perspectives. I find that resolving the euro crisis requires economic and sociological insights, particularly in respect to the design of European institutions, rules, and regulations. I develop a new paradigm in attempt to tackle the euro crisis. This paper demonstrates the importance of an interdisciplinary dialogue and how this may safeguard the future of the Economic and Monetary Union.
Um wirtschaftlichen Wohlstand dauerhaft zu sichern, wurde bereits vor einigen Jahren die "Bildungsrepublik Deutschland" ausgerufen. Doch eine Erhöhung der öffentlichen Ausgaben für Bildung ist ohne passendes Konzept keine Lösung. Ein zentraler Faktor darf nicht in Vergessenheit geraten: Die Qualität eines Bildungswesens steht und fällt mit der Qualität der Lehrer. Cathrin Sikor analysiert die bestehende Struktur von Angebot und Nachfrage im Lehrerarbeitsmarkt und beschreibt, welche Auswirkungen dies auf Lehrerqualität hat. Während sich die Rahmenbedingungen für Berufswahl und Karriere in anderen Bereichen deutlich verändert haben, gleicht das Lehramt im Wesentlichen seiner im Zuge der Industrialisierung entstandenen Form. Ist es an der Zeit für einen neuen Lehrerberuf?
This paper analyzes governance mechanisms for different group sizes. The European sovereign debt crisis has demonstrated the need of efficient governance for different group sizes. I find that self-governance only works for sufficiently homogenous and small neighbourhoods. Second, as long as the union expands, the effect of credible self-governance decreases. Third, spill-over effects amplify the size effect. Fourth, I show that sufficiently large monetary unions, are better off with costly but external governance or a free market mechanism. Finally, intermediate-size unions are most difficult to govern efficiently.
The paper designs a quantum model of decision-making (QMDM) that utilizes neuroscientific evidence. The new model provides both normative and positive implications to economics. First, it enhances the study of decision-making which is an extension of the expected utility theory (EUT) in mathematical economics. Second, we demonstrate how the quantum model mitigates drawbacks of the expected utility theory of today.