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Pro-Social Rule Breaking: Determinants, Manager Responses and Rationalizations
(kassel university press, 2022)
This book explores the topic of pro-social rule-breaking — more specifically, when employees break formal organizational rules intending to help the company. Generally, managers react to rule-breaking with sanctions; this may lead one to question why some employees break the rules without any apparent personal advantages despite the risk of being sanctioned. The first part of this book discusses the various reasons for rule-breaking based on literature. Leadership-related factors are notably important: how leaders ...
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The pandemic’s impact on food business education and food value chains: global reflections
(kassel university press, 2021)
The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the greatest and most challenging crises the world has faced in recent decades. This volume provides a collection of awarded and short-listed essays on the pandemic’s impacts on food business education and food value chains. The essays were written by students and graduates of the Master of Science programme in International Food Business and Consumer Studies (IFBC). Each essay provides unique reflections on how students and food professionals have been affected in terms of their ...
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Footwear industry, and plastic recycling
(2021-11)
The social and economic dynamics in Ticul municipality in Yucatán is based on labor-intensive and low-tech pottery and shoe manufacturing, contributing thereby 55% of the municipality’s total gross production. Despite its economic importance and employment, there are no environmental policies focused on these economic activities in the community, which has led to environmental, social, health problems in children and concerns of hazardous waste. The article’s objective is to document a successful case of a plastics ...
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Rural-Urban Transition
(2021-11)
Like elsewhere, migration-led peri-urban (rural clusters) growth of cities has been an important element of rural-urban transformation for centuries. However, only recently, in this process, the rural landscape also benefits from these changes, owing to better communication and market access. Peri-urban areas are consuming peripheral villages. This has put pressure on land and water resources putting environmental health at stake. Loss of biodiversity is imminent due to changing ecological frame conditions in an ...
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Impacts of Lockdown on Livelihood Conditions of Informal Workers in Bihar, India
(2022-03)
This paper analyses the impacts of COVID-19 induced lockdown on employment and working conditions, impacts on wages and incomes, food consumption, borrowings and asset holdings and level of government support in Bihar, one of the largest states of India.
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(Re)configuration of Water Resources Management in Mongolia
(kassel university press, 2014-11)
In Mongolia 'water' as a concept is constructed by local people based on the values and norms in which it was rooted in the past. Rivers and its resources are considered gifts from "Naga" who is believed to be the snake lord for pure water resources, lakes, springs, waterfalls and rivers. However, stress over water resource availability has gradually increased. Therefore, water resource management has been one critical theme in politics and policies in Mongolia with respect to climate conditions and socioeconomic ...
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Zu Entstehung von Mobilitätsbenachteiligung und ihrer Vermeidung im Kontext ökologischer Nachhaltigkeit
(kassel university press, 2021)
In der Arbeit wird untersucht, wie Mobilitätsbenachteiligung entsteht, wer davon betroffen ist, welche Konflikte zwischen sozialen und ökologischen Anforderungen an Mobilität bestehen und wie sich diese Anforderungen vereinbaren lassen. In den Blick genommen werden dabei Menschen mit sehr unterschiedlichen Merkmalen an unterschiedlichen Orten. Ein Untersuchungspfad ist der Einfluss der Automobilität, einerseits als ein ökologisches Problem, andererseits als ein Motor für soziale Ungleichheit.
Methodisch erfolgt dies ...
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The rational of minimum wages
(kassel university press, 2021-03)
Leaving labour markets to the market mechanism with flexible wages is the worst thing that can happen as the result would be a permanent destabilisation of the price level and an explosion of inequality—both of which adds to the instabilities of capitalism. Guarantee of minimum wages can play an important role to contain the destabilising potential of labour markets. They can add to the stability of price level development and help establish a type of wage dispersion preferred by society. Minimum wages do not lead ...
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Data Governance in Germany – An Introduction
(kassel university press, 2023)
This report presents an introduction to and overview of data governance mechanisms, instruments, and approaches with a particular focus on those included in the new “data law” – ushered in by the enactment of the Data Governance Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/868) in May 2022. The goal of the report is to provide a point of reference as well as to highlight the system and roots of data governance in Germany. The report was written with readers in mind (domestic and abroad) without a strong legal background who nevertheless ...
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The human right to water - its multi-level protection and implementation in International, European and National law
(kassel university press, 2022)
The object of the research work is the analysis of the multilevel protection of the human right to water and the current degree of implementation that it has received in international, European, and national law, comparing the Italian and German contexts from the constitutional law perspective. Given the absence of an express recognition of the human right to water, another research question concerns the examination of the mechanisms of multilevel protection of human rights, assessing whether the relationships between ...