infonet-economy

While capitalism has spurred economic growth and lifted millions out of poverty, major challenges such as poverty or a lack of basic medical care remain unsolved in many parts of the world. Even worse, the current implementation of capitalism
does not only leave urgent problems unsolved but threatens the social and ecological stability of the world. Social entrepreneurship, the...

Healthcare is at a crossroads. There is enormous pressure on governments to reduce costs; hospitals and clinicians are looking to improve quality; and an increasing population is striving to get access to medical care. Current healthcare models are in many ways not fit to meet these challenges. The " healthymagination" strategy of GE is designed to meet the growing demands...

The phenomenon of portfolio entrepreneurship has attracted considerable scholarly attention and is particularly relevant in the family firm context. However, there is a lack of knowledge of the process through which portfolio entrepreneurship develops in family firms. We address this gap by analyzing four in-depth, longitudinal family firm case studies from Europe and Latin America....

Although the relevance of gender issues in research on sustainability and sustainable consumption has been emphasized by different authors over the last decade (e.g. Weller 2004; Martine/Villarael 1997), there are still ‘gender gaps' as well as a lack of differentiated research (Vinz 2009) in this area. The integration of a gender perspective has been a prominent demand in the...

This article responds to recent calls for rethinking management education and fostering a spatial understanding of educational practices. We propose to introduce Foucault's notion of heterotopic space and the spatial thought of Lefebvre into the debate about the current and future state of business schools. In particular, we conceptually and empirically discuss the potential for...

Eye tracking has traditionally relied on regions of interest as a data source for analysis. Although widespread, this methodology is prone to several limitations. A new approach for eye tracking data analysis relying on spatiotemporal scan statistics is proposed and an exemplary experiment on anthropomorphic car front design is conducted.

We investigate whether the distance between the next sports facilities and children's homes matter for their sports activities inside and outside of sports clubs. Our analysis is based on a large and informative cross-section of individual data on children and their families, the so-called German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents data. We use a...

Night shifts result in a high pressure on employees' health. Regarding air traffic control, they may also represent a safety issue. Research showed that cognitive performance is decreased at night (Monk 1996) and safety risks increase starting from the second working hour without a break (Folkard et al. 2005). Investigating a request to extend the middle part of a night shift...