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Trucking in the Eastern Bloc
(2023-03-10)
This article explores the tensions during the Cold War between the need to have infrastructure to enable truck transport in the countries of the Eastern Bloc. Using “shortage economy” as the theoretical framework to analyse the Eastern bloc the article shows restrictions the shortage economy imposed on investments in infrastructure. The Western management started in the 1980s to let the enterprises’ transports to be carried out by external truck transport service providers – a policy which is known as “outsourcing”. ...
Dissertation
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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Mathematical Management
(2023-07-14)
Der Aufstieg des Fachgebietes Operations Research, das mathematische Modelle zur Steuerung von Wirtschaftsunternehmen bereitstellt, in der politischen Wissenskultur von Cold War Science der USA nach 1945 wird aufgezeigt und dann übergeleitet zur Institutionalisierung von Operations Research in den Universitäten von Europa und der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Die Vorläuferorganisationen zur Deutschen Gesellschaft für Operations Research werden dargestellt und das Zusammenspiel der Jahrestagung dieser Gesellschaft mit ...
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Consumers ’ perception of sustainable packaging in the food industry: An online experiment
(2022-01)
Consumers evaluate products and make purchasing decisions based on packaging and its sustainable aspects. This research investigated how different packages and their quality, eco-friendliness, expensiveness, and convenience affected consumers’ intentions to purchase. Our sample comprised 299 French consumers of muesli cereals. We conducted an online choice experiment to analyze and measure consumers’ perception of sustainable packaging, comparing three distinct experimental groups. Findings revealed that quality and ...
Zeitschrift
Jahresbericht 2008/2009
(Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 2009)
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Jahresbericht 2016
(Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 2017)
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Jahresbericht 2017
(Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 2018)
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Jahresbericht 2012
(Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 2013)
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Jahresbericht 2021
(Universität Kassel, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaften, 2022)