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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, München, Mering, 2014)
The United States of America and the European Union are currently negotiating a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). It is one of the most ambitious free trade and investment initiatives, going much further than eliminating tariffs. TTIP mainly aims at reducing “non-tariff barriers”. While tariffs on goods have been imposed with an eye to foreign competition, most of the non-tariff barriers are the laws and regulations that are the result of social struggles for the protection of consumers and ...
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Visibility and Voice for Union Women
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, München, Mering, 2014)
A new collection of Case studies about gender and trade unions in nine countries, ranging from Turkey to India, Brazil to Africa, the Philippines and New Zealand. Researched and written by insider/outsider union activists and officers, the book is the culmination of five years of collaborative research by the Global Labour University Gender and Trade Unions Research Group.
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China's Labor Question
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, München, Mering, 2011)
The Honda workers’ strike in 2010 attracted world wide attention. It was one of thousands of labor disputes that happen every year in China, but it was the first major calling for the right of workers to represent themselves in collective bargaining. The question of representation is therefore the main topic of the book. The various contributors to this volume share the view that the Chinese party-state takes the protest against social inequality seriously. It has enacted many laws aimed at channeling dissatisfaction ...
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The Pursuit of Alternatives
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, München, Mering, 2012)
Stories of peoples’ struggles across the globe are testaments to their determination to resist exploitation and injustice, and to imagine and construct their own narratives of economic and political difference. These stories of emancipatory moments demonstrate that something radically different in terms of dominant socio-economic relations and mental conceptions of the world may arise out of and beyond capitalism. The Pursuit of Alternatives: Stories of Peoples’ Economic and Political Struggles Around the World ...
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The Food Crisis: Implications for Labor
(Rainer Hampp Verlag, München, Mering, 2013)
Food prices have gone up to prohibitive levels for many of the world’s poor. The vast majority of those who are hungry in the world today are working in agriculture, either as small landholders or as waged agricultural workers. The majority of the food producers have not benefited from rising prices. Apparently, the bargaining power of many producers, just as that of the end consumers, has been weakened vis-à-vis the buyers and retailers of agricultural produce. This powerlessness is also in the face of governments ...
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Linking entrepreneurial orientation to firm performance in a post-socialist market context: the case of Hungary
(2016)
Entrepreneurial orientation provoked the interest of numerous scholars as well as political and administrative decision-makers. Both start-ups and already established corporate entities are increasingly persecuting new opportunities, products, and business models in order to establish superiority above their competitive environment. The tendencies evince an optimist impact of entrepreneurial orientation on business performance, namely on financial performance. Beyond the aforementioned relationship, there are impulses ...
Dissertation
Decision Making in Projects in Cultural Context
(2020)
This study presents the investigation about the decision making styles of German and Pakistani managers in national cultural context who have been working on projects. It becomes very important to understand the national culture when doing the international projects. Different studies have shown that national culture has significant impact upon managerial practices especially decision making. Germany is a developed country and various German companies perform projects in developing countries like Pakistan. In projects, ...
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The acceptance of mobile payments in the German retail market
(National University of Political Studies and Public Administration (SNSPA), Faculty of ManagementTritonic, 2016)
The acceptance of mobile payments is one of the research challenges of high strategic relevance in retailing. Most of the previous studies of mobile payment field focus on consumers’ opinions, expectations and concerns to assess their acceptance of mobile payment systems. The financial transactions’ complementing party – the merchants – who also needed to accept and, therefore, to implement mobile payment technologies is considered in this study. The purpose of this study is to enhance an existing research framework, ...
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Die Herausforderungen der Gewerkschaften im 21. Jahrhundert
(2014-10)
Der Fokus der Betrachtung dieses Artikels liegt auf der Frage, welche Rolle die Gewerkschaften im deutschen Modell spielen, was für sie die zentralen Herausforderungen in Wirtschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik sind und welche Entwicklungen wahrscheinlich sind.