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Dissertation
Diffusion of Material Flow Cost Accounting and its Contribution to Sustainable Development
(2022)
This thesis aims to analyze how further take-up of Material Flow Cost Accounting (MFCA) in practice can be encouraged to support sustainable development. To achieve the aim of the thesis, three studies on MFCA are conducted at multiple levels. The first study provides a better understanding of MFCA application at the corporate level in developing countries, which are characterized by rapid structure transformation leading to serious environmental problems. The second study considers the contextual and transformational ...
Dissertation
The relation of food business with nature – an investigation of ecological accounts of the food industry
(2021)
Unternehmen sind angehalten, freiwillig oder gesetzlich, für ihre Handlungen Rechenschaft abzulegen. Nachhaltigkeitsberichte (Engl. sustainability reports oder ecological accounts) sind ein Weg aufzuzeigen, inwiefern sich unternehmerische Entscheidungen auf die soziale und ökologische Umwelt auswirken. Der Grund für die Untersuchung solcher ecological accounts im Rahmen dieser Dissertationsschrift ist der Einfluss von Lebensmittelunternehmen auf die soziale und natürliche Umwelt. Das Forschungsziel dieser Arbeit ist ...
Dissertation
Governance for Decent Work in Agricultural Globalisation
(2021)
In the past decades, the agricultural world has become smaller as international food businesses have become organised around a global production network. One of the main factors for the introduction of a more decentralised and flexible food and agricultural system was the wage difference between Global North and Global South actors. In addition, Global South countries have facilitated the spread of Global Agricultural Value Chain/Global Agricultural Production Networks (GAVC/GAPNs) through promoting export processing ...