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Team resource management training for fire service teams has become increasingly popular. However, the effectiveness of this training, adapted from the well-established crew resource management training for flight crews, has not yet been evaluated for this audience. Ninety-one firefighters participated in a Team Resource Management seminar (experimental and control group) and in...

Few empirical studies take gender into account when analysing sustainable consumption. Even those studies that consider gender are not without shortcomings in their theorizing on gender. Drawing on insights from gender theory, we use a multilevel approach to investigate the relevance of gender to domestic energy consumption in Germany.

‘What happens when you put executives from Walmart and Patagonia in a room? This isn't the start of a bad joke, it's how the Sustainable Apparel Coalition (in short ‘coalition') was born' (Schwartz 2011). In February 2011, 30 large fashion compa- nies launched a multi-stakeholder alliance with the aim to draft a set of sustain- ability indicators for use across...

This article questions the unreflexive use of English in academic practices by highlighting the paradox of multilingual scholarship and the need for practices that may help both scholars and journals to become inventive in performing multilingual scholarship. Even when academic outputs are only in English, language multiplicity exists and needs to be reflected upon. To do so, we...

The aim of this study is to highlight the Business Social Compliance Initiative's (BSCI) development at the occasion of its tenth birthday by reviewing its history, presenting its current activities, investigating its achievements, and providing scenarios on expected developments from a neutral scientific organisation.

For the purpose of this study, we employ qualitative...

Die Motivation, sich in der Ausarbeitung einer Logistikmarktstudie aktiv einzubringen, liegt in der Erkenntnis begründet, dass der Stellenwert der Logistik in Europa und insbesondere auch in der Schweiz weiterhin an Bedeutung gewinnt. Die Dynamik und Relevanz des Logistikmarktes sind neben der weiter ansteigenden Arbeitsteiligkeit, globalisierten Märkten und der zunehmenden...

La plupart de ces sociétés prévoient un transfert de gouvernance dans les deux prochaines années. Ces chiffres illustrent à quel point ce thème est actuel, sans parler de sa dimension émotionnelle. La succession d'entreprise est une affaire de coeur: bon nombre d'entrepreneuses et d'entrepreneurs suisses considèrent leur entreprise comme l'oeuvre de toute une vie...