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BRICS Trade Strategy: Time For A Rethink. The 17th GTA Report

The term BRICS was coined by Jim O’Neill from Goldman Sachs over a decade ago. Unlike many acronyms, this one has stuck - largely because of the growing share of the world economy associated with the emerging economic powers Brazil, India, China, Russia and South Africa (the latter being added somewhat later.) With the greater global footprint, the policy choices of these countries...

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English / 01/07/2015

Selecting financial service providers for supply chains : How cross-functional collaboration can improve effectiveness and efficiency

Supply chain finance solutions aim at win-win situations for all supply chain partners.
They simultaneously address collaborative working capital improvements, supply chain cooperation as well as risk mitigation. To achieve a fit with these objectives the paper derives an iterative three-step decision process for configuring supply chain finance solutions: Define and configure...

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English / 30/06/2015

Extreme Value Theory for Heavy-Tails in Electricity Prices

Typical characteristics of electricity day-ahead prices at EPEX are the very high volatility and a large number of extreme price changes. In this paper, we look at hourly spot prices at the German electricity market and apply extreme value theory (EVT) to investigate the tails of the price change distribution. Our results show the importance of delimiting price spikes and modeling...

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English / 29/06/2015

Sharp IV Bounds on Average Treatment Effects on the Treated and Other Populations Under Endogeneity and Noncompliance

In the presence of an endogenous binary treatment and a valid binary instrument, causal effects are point identified only for the subpopulation of compliers, given that the treatment is monotone in the instrument. With the exception of the entire population, causal inference for further subpopulations has been widely ignored in econometrics. We invoke treatment monotonicity and/or...

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English / 15/06/2015

Doing gender and professionalism : Exploring the intersectionalities of gender and professionalization in early childhood education

Men in early childhood education (ECE) are subjected to different discourses: while they are facing serious mistrust on the one hand, their otherness to the field is also interpreted as new and potentially innovative on the other hand. This article explores how male childcare workers create and take up different subject positions by drawing on these competing discourses in order to...

English / 15/06/2015

Umgang mit besonderen Herausforderungen bei der ärztlichen Beurteilung von Urteilsfähigkeit

Urteilsfähigkeit ist eine Grundvoraussetzung für medizinische Behandlungsentscheide wie Zustimmung, Ablehnung oder Abbruch einer Behandlung. Bei PatientInnen mit kognitiven Beeinträchtigungen steht die Urteilsfähigkeit häufig in Zweifel. Neben den viel diskutierten Herausforderungen im Zusammenhang mit der Situationsrelativität und der Kontroverse um mögliche Hilfsmittel zur...

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Deutsch / 12/06/2015

Massnahmen für den alpenquerenden Güterverkehr

Ihre zentrale Lage in Europa macht die Alpenregion zu einem Brennpunkt im europäischen Güterverkehr. Unterschiedliche Massnahmen in der Verkehrspolitik der Alpenländer sorgen dafür, dass es im alpenquerenden Güterverkehr zu relativ starken Verschiebungen im Modalsplit zwischen Strasse und Schiene kommt. Im Rahmen der Logistikmarktstudie Schweiz, Band 2015 wird der alpenquerende...

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Deutsch / 12/06/2015

Normativity, Ethics, and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: A Critical Assessment

This article critically assesses the work of the UN Special Representative for Business and Human Rights (SRSG) John Ruggie. The article adopts a normative perspective on the issue. Thus, its critique is derived from the standpoint of ethics. The SRSG was instrumental in shifting the burden of proof to those who deny corporate human rights responsibilities. This achievement, however...

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English / 11/06/2015

Kündigungsfalle Social Media

Die verbreitete Nutzung von sozialen Netzwerken macht auch vor dem Arbeitsplatz nicht halt. Die Vermischung der privaten und der beruflichen Nutzung von Social Media bringt gewisse Risiken mit sich, welche zu einer Kündigung von Seiten des Arbeitgebers führen können. Dieser Beitrag widmet sich den arbeitsrechtlichen Problemen im Zusammenhang mit der Nutzung von Social Media durch den...

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Deutsch / 08/06/2015

Culture and Household Saving

In this paper, I examine the role of culture for households' saving decisions. Exploiting historical language borders within Switzerland, I isolate the effect of culture from economic, institutional, demographic and geographic factors for a homogeneous and representative sample of households. The analysis is based on the Swiss Household Panel that I complement with geographic...

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English / 06/06/2015

Kompetente Strategieumsetzung : Welche Massnahmen hilfreich sind

Für die Entwicklung von Fähigkeiten ist das Zusammenspiel von Wissen und Aktivitäten im Hinblick auf zu erfüllenden Aufgaben massgeblich. Das gilt insbesondere für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung strategischer Initiativen. In einer explorativen Studie wurden acht übergreifende Erfolgsfaktoren hierzu identifiziert. Sie decken sich mit Erkenntnissen aus der Forschung z.B. zu...

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Deutsch / 05/06/2015

Is more always better? : An investigation into the relationship between marketing influence and mangers' market intelligence dissemination

How does the influence of the marketing department within an organization affect marketing managers' dissemination of market intelligence (i.e., knowledge about customer needs and competitor activities) to managers of other departments? Three studies with 711 executive managers and integrated survey and experimental data offer insights. Rather than the positive relationship...

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English / 01/06/2015

Doing und Undoing Gender in Kinderkrippen : Eine Videostudie zu den Interaktionen von Kindernbetreuenden mit Kindern

Kinderkrippen sind für viele Kinder die erste Bildungsinstitution und für die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter bedeutsam. Im Beitrag wird auf der Basis einer ethnographischen Videostudie in vier Deutschschweizer Kinderkrippen untersucht, wie Gender in der pädagogischen Alltagspraxis der Kinderbetreuenden relevant wird. Für die Kodierung der Videodaten werden Interaktionsverläufe in...

Deutsch / 01/06/2015

Value Creation in Family Firms: A Model of Fit

We propose a framework describing how family ownership can create or destroy value depending on the goals, resources, and governance of the family firm, which are each influenced by the family owners. Taking a contingency perspective, we suggest that a fit is required for all three elements - family-influenced goals, resources, and governance - for the family firm to flourish over...

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English / 01/06/2015

The evolution of the small business and entrepreneurship field: A bibliometric investigation of articles published in the International Small Business Journal

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This article analyses the evolution of the small business management and entrepreneurship fields as reflected in articles published in its premier journal, the International Small Business Journal.
It investigates the evolution of the fields through bibliometric examination of all 660 articles published between 1982 and 2012. While small business management has...

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English / 01/06/2015

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