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Dissertation
On the Cooperation of Groups in Social Dilemmas
(2020)
Die Menschheit steht vor zahlreichen Umweltproblemen wie dem Klimawandel, Luft- und Wasserverschmutzung, Biodiversitätsverlust und der Übernutzung natürlicher Ressourcen. All diese Probleme haben gemein, dass sie soziale Dilemmata darstellen und nur durch die Kooperation großer Gruppen gelöst werden können. Diese Dissertation bietet eine Analyse zur Kooperation von Gruppen in vier Studien. Die Arbeit besteht aus zwei Teilen. In Teil I werden zwei Laborexperimente präsentiert, in denen Entscheidungen von Individuen ...
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Human Behavior and Public Goods Provision - Empirical Evidence from the Laboratory and International Climate Negotiations
(2020)
This thesis comprises an introductory chapter followed by four distinct but connected articles. The common thread is the quest to understand human behavior in the provision of public goods and how this behavior is impacted by institutional and situational factors. The main body of the thesis can be divided into two thematic parts with two articles each.
Part 1 focuses on the international climate negotiations as a platform for international cooperation. The two articles in this part, presented in Chapter 2 and 3, ...
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Der Einfluss institutioneller Rahmenbedingungen auf die nationalen Innovationssysteme in Frankreich und Deutschland
(2006-06-19)
Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der komparativen Analyse der deutschen und französischen Innovationssysteme. Ausgehend von der evolutorisch-orientierten Innovationsforschung und der Institutionenökonomik werden die Akteure und deren Interaktionen in den jeweiligen institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen in beiden Innovationssystemen untersucht. Die Arbeit beleuchtet dieses Thema aus verschiedenen Perspektiven und zeichnet sich durch ein breites Methodenspektrum aus. Die Grenzen und Defizite des linearen Innovationsmodells ...
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Ausgestaltungsfelder internationaler Unternehmenskooperationen
(2008-07-23)
Das Fehlen einer theoretisch und empirisch fundierten Konzeption des Managements im Rahmen internationaler Unternehmenskooperation am Standort Korea auf der Basis strategischer Erfolgsfaktoren bildet den Anlass und den Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit, deren Zielsetzung sich wie folgt formulieren lässt:
• Eine erste Zielsetzung ist es, einen theoretisch fundierten Bezugsrahmen potentieller Einflussbereiche des Kooperationserfolgs zu entwickeln. Die einzelnen Bausteine dieses Bezugsrahmens, die zugleich die ...
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Managing Risk, Performance and Sustainability in Textile & Apparel Supply Chains.
(2023)
The thesis at hand analyzes sustainability prerequisites, practices, risk and performance in textile and apparel (T&A) supply chains (SCs). Given the growing awareness of sustainability risks by various stakeholders, T&A firms are required to implement and adapt sustainability practices along their SCs, while at the same time measuring their performance to counteract the (re)emergence of risks. Appropriate management strategies are therefore needed to ensure sustainable transformation in T&A SCs. While the state of ...
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Impact of ownership concentration and corporate governance on sustainability and stakeholder risk: An empirical Analysis of listed firms from USA, UK and Germany.
(Corporate ownership and control, 2017-03-05)
This thesis contributes to and extends the literature by observing the impact of corporate governance and different attributes of board effectiveness and firm level corporate governance mechanism on stakeholder risk. Like shareholders, stakeholders also face the agency problem and fear losing their hidden resources and efforts. This thesis defines this fear of losing resources and efforts and long-term sustainability prospects as stakeholder risk. Here, it is worthwhile to mention that this thesis also contributes ...
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The interplay of sustainability and capital markets
(2023)
Humanity faces significant environmental and social challenges, e.g., climate change (UN, 2019). Those challenges are, to some extent, addressed by politics. For instance, the European Union (EU) tries to address environmental topics, such as climate change, with the EU Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth to steer capital flows into more sustainable business models (EU, 2018). This regulatory development, in conjunction with a surging demand for sustainable investment solutions leads to a pressing need for ...
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Neo-institutionalism and business sustainability in emerging economies
(2022)
This dissertation deals with the institutional environment surrounding the private sector in the various emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs) worldwide where most of the global population lives. Its primary purpose is to identify and combine theoretical aspects of new (sociological) institutionalism/neo-institutionalism to better understand the role of institutional environments in shaping business impacts on sustainable development. Institutions shape the behaviour of individuals as well as entire groups ...
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Capital Accumulation, Sector Productivity, and Economic Growth
(2023)
This dissertation is motivated by the research results of Benigno and Fornaro (2014). Benigno and Fornaro (2014) research, how low interest rates impact the productivity of economies.
This dissertation implements extensions of the Benigno and Fornaro (2014) model, that particularly address the capital accumulation, the production functions, and the technology accumulation. In doing so, this dissertation shows that some of the Benigno und Fornaro (2014) research results require specific assumptions, to qualitatively ...
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Industry 4.0-driven additive manufacturing for operations in the circular economy
(2023-06)
This dissertation focuses on exploring how key elements of Industry 4.0 (I4.0), such as additive manufacturing (AM) and quantitative techniques/simulation, instigate the operations of an organisation towards the circular economy (CE). AM represents the technological foundation of future manufacturing which efficiently utilises materials avoiding unnecessary waste. Further, it could positively impact the transition towards CE by addressing issues related to the operations and supply chains while positively influencing ...