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Unternehmen Universität? Wie die Suche nach Effizienz, Output-Messung und das Ranking-Fieber in der Wissenschaft zu Opportunismus und Ideenarmut führen können

In der Wissenschaft sucht man immer wieder Qualität und Output der Arbeit zu messen und die Effizienz zu ermitteln. Die Autorin des folgenden Beitrags zeigt auf, welche Nebenwirkungen damit verbunden sind und welche Regeln produktiver wären.

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English / 19/05/2010

Quality Management Practices for Business Services : A Research Agenda from a Buyer's Perspective

This paper is part of a larger research project investigating how buying companies apply practices of quality management for their externally sourced business services. Quality management for business services in professional procurement has not attracted much academic attention so far, as literature on service quality focused on consumer services and studies on quality management…

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English / 16/05/2010

ECTS: Die neue Währung in der Weiterbildung

Das European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) soll sicherstellen, dass die Leistungen von Studenten an Hochschulen des Europäischen Hochschulraumes vergleichbar und bei einem Wechsel von einer Hochschule zur anderen, auch grenzüberschreitend, anrechenbar sind. Im Gespräch mit Jürgen Spickers, Leiter Management-Seminare am Institut für Betriebswirtschaft der Universität…

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Deutsch / 15/05/2010

Business Taxation, Corporate Finance and Economic Performance

This survey of recent research in corporate finance discusses how business taxes, subsidies as well as a country's institutional development affect several important decision margins of heterogeneous firms. We argue that innovative firms, as a result of agency problems between insiders and outside investors, are most frequently finance constrained. We discuss how profit taxes…

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English / 03/05/2010

Private firm, public corporation or member's association – Governance structures in European football

Based on the analysis of the specific industry environment in which football clubs compete, this paper presents a comparative institutional analysis of three paradigmatic structures of football club governance: classical (privately owned) football firms, modern football corporations (stock corporations with dispersed ownership) and members’ associations with an own legal personality…

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English / 01/05/2010

Do rankings reflect research quality?

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and determine to a large extent the career of individual scholars. Such rankings do not effectively measure research quality, which should be the essence of any evaluation. These quantity rankings are not objective; two citation rankings, based on different samples, produce entirely…

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English / 01/05/2010

Logistik und Güterverkehr: Infrastrukturanforderungen und Raumwirkungen

Im Zuge der wirtschaftlichen und technischen Entwicklung moderner Volkswirtschaften kommt es zu einer zunehmenden fachlichen Spezialisierung von Unternehmen und Ausdifferenzierung von Branchen. Unternehmen konzentrieren sich auf ihre Kernkompetenzen, mit der Folge, dass die unternehmensübergreifende Arbeitsteilung, sei es auf nationaler,
internationaler oder gar globaler Ebene…

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Deutsch / 24/04/2010

Neue Stärken aus alten Tugenden : KMU als Konjunkturpuffer in der Krise

Editoral im Jahresbericht des Schweizerischen Gewerbeverbandes

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Deutsch / 14/04/2010

Zufriedene Besucher und messbarer Messe-Erfolg

Drei wichtige Stellhebel für den Erfolg von Ausstellern und Besuchern auf B-to-B-Messen

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Deutsch / 10/04/2010

How do Swiss Universities master the reforms of the last ten years? - Empirical evidence from a data envelopment analysis

Since the 1990ies the higher education system in the German speaking area has been faced an essential paradigm change: The model of governmental steering and control was replaced by the model of governmental supervision following the concept of New Public Management. It was assumed that an enlargement of autonomy would increase the effciency of the whole tertiary system. At the same…

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English / 09/04/2010

Crisis Prevention : What Is Necessary to Avoid the Next Crisis?

The current economic crisis could deliver valuable lessons for economic agents. However, it seems that those have not learnt essential lessons, continuing their "business as usual". A dynamic simulation model presented in this chapter highlights that this is likely to lead to the next crunch in the offing. Even before we have mastered this crisis the next one is already…

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English / 06/04/2010

Uniqueness of steady states in models with overlapping generations

In this paper we examine the likelihood of multiple real steady states in deterministic exchange economies with overlapping generations. There is a single good and a single agent per generation with constant relative risk aversion expected utility. In order to test for multiple equilibria we employ methods from computational algebraic geometry. In our examples, we find that…

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English / 01/04/2010

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