infonet-economy

Der Beitrag entwickelt auf der Basis einer Fallstudie zu universitärer Gleichstellungsarbeit ein Modell für das Verständnis von Organisationsveränderung als Übersetzungsprozess. Unter Rückgriff auf Konzepte aus dem skandinavischen Institutionalismus und der Diskurspsychologie wird organisationaler Wandel als das Prozessieren verschiedener Übersetzungszyklen gefasst, deren Reichweite...

Die Performance Excellence Studie des Lehrstuhls für Logistikmanagement der Hochschule St. Gallen (HSG) zeigt auf, was moderne Unternehmen tun müssen, wenn sie den Einkauf von Dienstleistungen zeitgemäss handhaben wollen.

This article argues that the notion of affective atmosphere provides a privileged access to the study of organizational affect as it relates to a spatial ontology of ‘being-together-in-a-sphere’. Drawing on the study of affective atmospheres in philosophy and cultural geography, we develop a conceptual positioning from which to analyze a musical intervention in the streets and...

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...