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Economically and environmentally it might be more responsible or even feasible to combine products and services to elongate product lifetime. Gispen, a major office furniture producer in the Netherlands, has embraced circular economic principles to create new business, extend product life time and improve the adaptability of their products. In the Use-it-Wisely (UIW) project two…

The aim of this chapter is to present a methodology for supporting the collaboration between the involved parties and for augmenting the final product with an always up to date digital file. The methodology is based on three support tools, which focus on the life cycle of small craft passenger vessels made of composite materials. The chapter concentrates on FRP (Fibreglass Reinforced…

The manufacturing industry is changing. Driven by a number of concurrent trends, including economic and political development, technological breakthroughs and social connectivity, the impacts on industry in general are fundamental. Companies need to find ways to adapt to this change in collaboration with actors across their value networks. For long-life industrial assets, i.e.,…

An der Digitalisierung der Wirtschaft kommt keine Branche vorbei. Die Berner Fachhochschule BFH bildet ab Herbst 2017 Wirtschaftsingenieurinnen und -ingenieure aus, die für die zukünftigen Herausforderungen gerüstet sind – ein Studium an den Schnittstellen von Technik, Informatik und Wirtschaft.

The purpose of this study is to shed light on the chain of causality frommacroeconomic financial policy to the microeconomic investment function. Concretely, we aim to provide an in-depth analysis of the relationships between the monetary policy of central banks, the loan policy of commercial banks, and the investment behavior of firms. We focus on countries that conduct their…

In light of the ongoing dominance of functionalist approaches as well as recent signs of change towards more critical and nuanced perspectives, we offer this book as a collection of critical narratives which render visible diverse examples of non-traditional entrepreneurship as well as usually overshadowed aspects of ‘traditional’ entrepreneurship. The chapters in this book…

In lieu of an abstract, here a short extract from the introduction:

... when using the term “critical” in CES (Critical Entrepreneurship Studies), we have in mind research which deliber- ately goes against the grain of functionalism and its deterministic view of human nature, reality and research, with the aim of opening up space to critique the canon of accepted knowledge and…

Der vorliegende Bericht analysiert die Lebensqualität der deutschen Erwerbsbevölkerung auf Basis einer repräsentativen Stichprobe (N = 8004 volljährige Erwerbstätige). Zunächst wird die aktuelle Situation im Hinblick auf verschiedene Indikatoren der Lebensqualität, wie Lebenszufriedenheit, emotionale Erschöpfung, Stressbelastung und Konflikte zwischen Arbeit und Familie, beleuchtet.…

Unternehmen sind sich zunehmend ihres Gemeinwohlbeitrages bewusst, weshalb Instrumente zu dessen Messung an Bedeutung gewinnen. Die Gemeinwohl-Bilanz ist ein aktuell erfolgreiches Instrument, welches vor allem in kleineren und mittleren Unternehmen eingesetzt wird.
Eine Studie untersuchte, wie Manager die Vorstellung und erstmalige Implementierung der Gemeinwohl-Bilanz…