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Working paper
Die Austro Moderne
(2023-01-10)
Die Länder Zentraleuropas lassen sich nicht einfach als Nachholer der westlichen Modernisierung begreifen. Der Beitrag zeigt vielmehr auf, wie die technischen Entwicklungen in den Autofabriken Lohner in Wien und Austro-Daimler in Wiener Neustadt vor sich gingen und der leichte und leistungsstarke Benzinmotor den Flugzeugbau (die Taube von Etrich) und Luftschiffbau vorantrieb. Im Flugzeugbau war Österreich um 1910 führend. Das kreative Milieu in Wien wird daran deutlich, dass die Hauptverwaltung der Lohnerwerke bloß ...
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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”. ...
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Taylor and Taylorism
(2023-04-20)
Beyond the perspectives of labour science and industrial sociology, in which extensive deepening of the division of labour can be crystallized as an element of consensus under Taylorism, the concept of Taylorism found its way into general intellectual history. In 1954, the German-American management expert Drucker ranked scientific management among the most important contributions of the USA to Western culture. The dissemination of the concept of Taylorism in Western culture outlined here points to a high rank of ...
Dissertation
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 ...
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 ...
Dissertation
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 ...
Dissertation
Managing Collaboration in Circular Supply Chains
(2023-05)
The dissertation focuses on understanding the application of the circular economy (CE) concept to the supply chain management (SCM) domain as ‘circular supply chains’ (CSCs) and the role of collaboration in this application. While CE is an emerging approach for sustainable production and consumption, its application in the SCM domain as CSCs could assist in improving the overall sustainable performance. Collaboration with internal and external partners is crucial to achieve this improvement. Hence, with the aim to ...
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The Computing Boom in the U.S. Aeronautical Industry, 1945–1965
(2023-05-15)
Whereas standard accounts on the history of modern computing tell the development of the digital computer as an isolated event on the East Coast of the U.S., this paper will show the history of machine computing in the context of the broad and rapid development of aeronautical weapons in the U.S. military since 1945. Analogue computing plays an important role that is nearly completely ignored by standard accounts. The extensive literature on the history of electronic digital computers does not take into account the ...
Dissertation
Transforming towards a sustainable circular economy: exploring the social dimension, actor contribution and emerging paradoxes
(2023)
Pressing global societal challenges highlight organisational vulnerability and the need to transform towards more sustainable production and consumption measures. The circular economy concept is considered an alternative to the prevalent linear economic system. It aims to contribute to sustainable development by slowing and closing resource cycles and facilitating cross-sectoral collaboration of multiple stakeholders. Yet, the desired transformation is lagging behind and the current debate focuses primarily on the ...
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Die Verkehrspolitik der DDR
(2023-03-15)
Der Traum der Staatssozialisten von großen LKW-Flotten konnte in den 1950er Jahren nicht in die Realität überführt werden. Die erwarteten Gewinne an Produktivität stellten sich wegen zahlreicher Hindernisse nicht ein. Während das westliche Management in den 1980er Jahren die notwendigen Bedingungen für das Outsourcing von Transportdienstleistungen sorgfältig erkundete, besaßen die staatssozialistischen Planer keine Idee von Geschäftsprozessen, welche Produktion und Transport verbanden. Neben unzulänglichen ...