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Social platforms: New places and times of (non)fulfillment of working obligations. A comparative study of the Italian and German legal systems
(2022-04-28)The communication opportunities offered by social networks tend to support the inclination to let everyone know everything, not infrequently with effects on the work activity. This opens up new scenarios that are no ... -
Soziale Chancengerechtigkeit durch Gesamtschulen. Können Gesamtschulen dazu beitragen sekundäre Herkunftseffekte am Übergang nach der Sekundarstufe I zu reduzieren?
(2017-03-16)The German education system is currently changing from a multi-track to a two-track school system, where after primary school – at the age of 10 – students are sorted onto two different types of schools according to their ... -
Soziale Erwünschtheit im Licht des Rational-Choice Ansatzes
(2015-02-19)Social desirability (SD) is often mentioned as cause of unexpected results. It describes the tendency of respondents to present semself in front of interviewers, third party or a fictitious public in a "good light", ... -
Die soziale Konstruktion des impliziten Arbeitsvertrages: Entwicklung und sozioökonomische Bedingungen
(2012-12-13)The conditions framing employment relationships have enormously changed in the last decades. In answer to the internationalization of markets firms implement new management concepts and foster work flexibilization. ... -
Sozialtherapie im offenen Jugendvollzug
(2004-03-18)The present investigation provides an evaluation of the treatement in the section "Social Therapy" in the open juvenile penal institution Göttingen-Leineberg. From August 1996 to October ... -
Sportlich-handlungsorientiertes Lernen von berufstätigen Erwachsenen im Kontext eines systemisch-konstruktivistischen Ansatzes.
(2010-03-24)The objective of this research is to show a correlation between the application of the methodical-didactical concept of outdoor action learning and the results in learning (Transfer ... -
Ein stochastisches Modell zur Beschreibung stündlichen Niederschlages
(1999)A Neyman-Scott cluster process model for hourly precipitation is developed that accounts for seasonality by the model parameters being continuous sinusoidal functions of time. The process is fitted to a set of 27 years of ... -
Die strafrechtliche Behandlung von Eltern minderjähriger Täter
(2003-06-03)The object of this work was to determine whether insufficient parental supervision and care of children and juveniles can lead to a punishment of the parents themselves, in the case where the juvenile or child commits a ... -
Strafwirkungen und Rückfall - Lässt sich mit Hilfe prozesserzeugter Daten der Strafrechtspflege der spezialpräventive Anspruch des Strafrechts prüfen?
(2014-06-10)Individual prevention – meant as the reduction of recidivism via rehabilitation, deterrence and incapacitation – is seen as one of the most important tasks of criminal justice. In contrast to this the labeling approach ... -
Die strategische Situation der Textil- und Bekleidungsindustrie in Marokko
(2006-07-21)The main goal of the thesis is to explore the opportunities of doing foreign direct investment in the moroccan textile and clothing industry. Therefor the chances of such an investment will be discussed in the first ... -
Student Performance in Higher Education: Ability, Class Attendance, Mobility and the Bologna Process
(2016-12-14)The thesis “Student Performance in Higher Education: Ability, Class Attendance, Mobility and the Bologna Process” empirically analyzes determinants of students’ success at university. Administrative student data as well ... -
Studies on Digital Transformation and its Implications for Business Models and Corporate Communication
(2022-10-19)Due to an ongoing digitalization of societies and businesses and an increasingly intense and complex competitive environment, incumbent firms need to stay up to date with technological advancements and digitally transform ... -
Studies on Employees’ Information Security Awareness
(2015-06-15)Living in a digital age, where all kinds of information are accessible electronically at all times, organizations worldwide struggle to keep their information assets secure. It is assumed that 50 - 70 % of overall information ... -
Studies on the performance structure and relevant parameters determining individual performance in the Paralympic port Alpine Skiing - Case Study
(2013-08-09)This study directed at athletes from the German Paralympic Alpine Ski Team (DPS), encompasses an overall evaluation focused on two main assessments, together with some complementary tests. Most of the athletes involved are ... -
Studies on the Returns to Education in Germany
(2012-01-11)This doctoral dissertation provides three contributions to the economics and econometrics of education. More specifically, based on data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP), the papers are concerned with the ... -
Subjective theories and behaviours in physical education of Italian primary school teachers. Applying a superstructure model to study specialist-generalist teachers differences and the effects of a physical education professional development programme
(2011-06-29)Relevance of the research. Important international organizations and educational authorities recognize the power of sport in contributing to healthy child development. Healthy lifestyles ... -
Die Subjektivierung der allgemeinen Völkerrechtsregeln im Sinne des Art. 25 Satz 2 GG
(2021-08-30)The present dissertation deals with the legal status of the individual as an individual under international law and the historical development of Article 25 sentence 2 of the Basic Law since the Basic Law was passed in ... -
Supply Chain Risk Management Study of the Indonesian Seaweed Industry
(2015-07-29)Seaweed supply chains in Indonesia, especially carrageenan and agar products are subject to disruptions from both inside their companies and in their external networks, such as yield, quality, price, and infrastructures. ... -
Sustainability in Retailing – Environmental Effects of Transport Processes, Shopping Trips and Related Consumer Behaviour
(2013-10-01)This thesis is concerned with sustainability in retailing. It begins with a literature review that provides deeper insights into relevant developments in retail research and practice with a focus on sustainability developments. ... -
Ein systemorientierter Ansatz zur Modularisierung von Planspielen mit dem Ziel der Komplexitätssteuerung und Integration in Standardsoftware
(2006-09-22)This dissertation evaluates existing deficits in using business games and, based on this, derives explicit fields of interest. An outer and an inner modularization are proposed and exemplified ... -
Der Tapeverband am Sprunggelenk als technischer Bestandteil zur Leistungssteigerung im Sport am Beispiel des Fosbury Flops
(2005-06-14)THE ANKLE TAPE IN HIGH JUMP DEMONSTRATING TAPING AS AN INTEGRAL TECHNICAL FEATURE TO ENHANCE PERFORMANCE IN ATHLETICSGharavi H, Institute for Sports Sciences, Dept. of Sociology, ... -
Telling stories or solving problems? The 20-20-20 package and the efficiency of EU Climate Change Policies
(2016-06-20)The main instrument for the EU climate change protection plans relies on the 20-20-20 by 2020 targets. This roadmap, adopted in 2008, is the result of years of continuing work for a joint programme for Europe-wide application ... -
Textual Information in Analyst Reports and its Value for Decision Support
(2023-02-16)The profession of financial analysts requires skills that cannot be replaced even by today’s most cutting-edge analytical tools. Instead, ongoing globalization and the increasing interconnectedness of international financial ... -
(Thai-)Land in Bewegung: Nostalgien und inländische Tourismusmobilitäten
(2018-11-21)This dissertation examines the manifold mobility dynamics and social transformations in which the development of domestic tourism in Thailand is embedded. It is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Chiang Khan, a small town ... -
The Analysis of the International Legal Water Regime of the Mekong River Basin
(2017-03-09)On 27 August 2014, the world famous 1997 Convention on the Law of the Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses (the 1997 UNWC) entered into force. This event once again made international water law become a hot ... -
The Application of Chatbots at the Digital Workplace in Businesses - Empirical Insights and Design Recommendations for Business Chatbots
(2022-06-17)Driven by the ongoing digitalization, businesses and work procedures change, established paper-based ways of working vanish, and new forms of digital collaboration or office and working structures are emerging. Besides ... -
The causes and consequences of violent conflict
(2021-04-19)This dissertation presents four independent papers that contribute to the understanding of the causes and consequences of violent conflicts. The first two papers identify causes of conflicts whereas the latter two elaborate ... -
The Challenges of Transition: Essays on Nutrition and Climate Change
(2016-07-08)Transition processes are a concomitant feature of economic growth. The transition that many countries (especially developing and transition countries) undergo when they experience economic growth has manifold ...
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The complementarities of child health achievements in developing countries
(2015-03-12)This dissertation, which is grounded on a human-centred and multidimensional vision of development, aims at analyzing empirically the correlates and determinants of child health in low and middle income countries. The ... -
The cultural context of biodiversity conservation
(2008-04-29)Due to the recognition that many areas of the world that contain high levels of biodiversity are cultural landscapes inhabited by indigenous and local communities, the significant role such communities play in preserving ... -
The Economics of Human Rights - Gender, Human Trafficking, and Policy
(2011-07-25)This dissertation includes four papers prepared during my PhD study period (2008-2011), investigating a variety of topics on human rights through economic analyses. All the papers discuss ... -
The effects of regulatory and financial policy instruments on innovative behavior
(2016-03-24)Fostering innovative activities is broadly acknowledged to be a core requirement of successful economic policy in order to achieve political aims like economic growth, high levels of employment or long-standing international ... -
The effects of study abroad experience on students vocational identity
(2010-07-07)This research study discusses the implications of a semester study abroad program within students' vocational career development, and in particular, on student's self-perceptions, vocational ... -
The Fiscal and Economic Impact of Qualifying Industrial Zones
(2007-01-02)SUMMARYThis thesis investigates the fiscal and economic impact of Qualifying Industrial Zones (QIZs) on the Jordanian economy. In contrast to other studies, this study assesses costs and ... -
The Impact and Implementation of International Development Finance
(2023-12-04)This dissertation examines the pivotal role of international development finance amid the halfway point of the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. Against the backdrop of formidable challenges, including the ... -
The Impact of Voluntary Front-of-Pack Nutrition-Label Introduction on Purchase Behavior
(2015-02-04)Nutrition labeling is the provision of information about nutrition content of individual food products at the point of purchase. Decades of marketing and nutrition research have been devoted to analyze how consumers perceive, ... -
The influence of moral costs and heuristics on individual decision making: Five essays in behavioral economics
(2018-10-24)In this thesis I present three essays in which the influence of heuristics on individual decision making is analyzed and two essays dealing with behavioral aspects of moral costs. In chapter two, we investigate the effect ... -
The influence of vocational education and training on innovation
(2023-08-22)My dissertation aims at analyzing the relevance of vocational education and training (VET) on firm innovation in Germany. It makes a twofold contribution to the innovation literature: Firstly, it complements studies on ... -
The Information Value of Unstructured Analyst Opinions
(2017-07-11)Due to the rising importance of information and communication technology in the financial industry the amount of unstructured textual and decision-relevant data that is being analyzed by market participants also continues ... -
The Link Between Large Scale Land Acquisition and Fertility
(2024-02-05)This paper provides the first large-scale quantitative analysis that sheds light on the previously unexplored relationship between fertility and large-scale land investment on the African continent. Therefore, a ... -
The Making-Of: Innovation. Understanding and Designing the Environment for Non-R&D Innovation
(2022-02-28)This thesis aims to highlight non-R&D innovation and contribute to a broader and more profound appreciation of learning and knowledge creation processes crucial for employee and individual-driven innovation attainment. ... -
The Nexus between Agricultural Productivity, Poverty, and Social Services Provision in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Empirical Analysis
(2014-12-19)This dissertation contains three essays at the interface of agricultural and development economics. The motivation for this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income ... -
The Nexus of Neoclassical Realism and Soft Power the Case of the West – Russia Geopolitical Rivalries in the “Common Neighbourhood”
(2018-12-05)This thesis analyses soft power in the light of neoclassical realist premises as part of the foreign policy toolkit of great powers to expand their sphere of influence. It argues that if nuclear armed great powers compete ... -
The Political Economy of Electoral Reforms
(2016-07-27)This dissertation contributes to the emerging literature on endogenous political institutions and the causal relationship between institutions and the political and economic environment. For the purpose, all chapters rely ... -
The Regulation of Transborder Data Flows from the EU to China Within the Framework of China-EU E-Commerce under the GDPR
(2023-12-06)With the promulgation of the General Data Protection Regulation, the protection of personal data in the EU has reached a historically high level. However, the EU cannot keep the personal data of its residents inside of the ... -
The Role of Aspirations in Collective Action and Labor Markets
(2021-03-11)A growing literature in economics seeks to explain why people remain poor. Classical theories explained the persistence of poverty with constraints that are external to an individual such as market imperfections and ... -
The Role of Enforcement in the Decision Making of Preparers and Auditors of Financial Statements
(2019-03-15)This thesis investigates the role of financial reporting enforcement in the decision mak-ing of financial statement preparers and auditors. Enforcement bodies are governmen-tal or private agencies that have the authority ... -
The Role of Labor in Sustainable Development
(2017-12-14)In 2015, the international community adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to pave the way for a global transformation towards sustainable development – a development path which combines the goals of economic ... -
The Ties that Bind: Party Social Identity and the Relevance of Ideology for the Chinese Communist Party
(2022-07-19)This thesis seeks to answer the question why ideology still matters for the Chinese Communist Party in its relations with its own members and, importantly, what its purpose is. In other words, it wants to understand how ... -
The visualization, unbiased estimation and interpretation of distributional regression models
(2022-06-20)Distributional regression represents a modern approach to regression modeling that yields the ability to simultaneously connect multiple parameters beyond the mean of any parametric response distribution to structured ... -
Theoretic Essays in Public Economics
(2024-02-09)This dissertation combines four theoretic models in public economics. The first two chapters consider welfare and distributional effects within a general equilibrium trade model with oligopoly focusing on corporate taxation ... -
Theory of Victimization of Educated Women in India: Understanding Experts’ perception of a Cognitive Shift
(2021-03-25)In India, presently, gender-based violence is increasing at an alarming rate but at the same time due to state’s effort female literacy rate rising too. In the light of such scenario, the theory of victimization of educated ... -
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Three Contributions to Experimental Economics
(2013-11-22)This dissertation provides basic economic research in behavioral economics. The leitmotif of all three essays is to study the decision making of individuals applying the method of experimental economics. Each of the presented ... -
Three Essays in Empirical and Experimental Development Economics: Pro-social Behavior, Monitoring of Development-Linked Public Goods and Inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2015-02-09)The dissertation contributes to three important issues in development economics, i.e. corruption behavior, the monitoring of development-linked public goods and inequality. The dissertation uniquely combines both empirical ... -
Three Essays on Application of Semiparametric Regression: Partially Linear Mixed Effects Model and Index Model
(2012-12-07)The dissertation consists of three essays. The main focus is set on semiparametric regression modeling, which embodies the strength of parametric and nonparametric regression models in terms of flexibility, dimensionality ... -
Three Essays on Indonesian Political Economy: Elite Capture, Corruption, and Female Policy Makers
(2014-12-19)The three essays of this thesis contribute to the understanding of the Indonesian political economy in the era of decentralization. Essay 1 empirically investigates the role of elite capture in the context of an Indonesian ... -
Three Essays on Job Loss Fears and Offshoring
(2014-02-11)The three essays of this dissertation look at the effect of offshoring on individual perceived fear of job loss and the role of job loss fears during wage negotiations. The first essay compares different estimation strategies ... -
Three Essays on the Gender Differentials in Mortality and Undernutrition in Pakistan
(2008-05-21)Child Mortality and Undernutrition are the two major public health problems in the developing world. An associated phenomenon is gender discrimination against the female child. South Asia, in particular, suffers from ... -
Three studies on semi-mixed effects models
(2012-01-05)The applications of non- and semiparametric models are found in nearly all fields of empirical research. Since nonparametric methods do not have restrictive assumptions about the distribution of the observations ... -
Topics in Macroeconomics
(2018-11-26)This dissertation consists of three independent articles. The first chapter “Giants and Midgets: the Effect of Public Goods’ Provision on Urban Population Concentration” analyses population distribution within a system of ... -
Towards an online OR toolkit for humanitarian logistics
(2015-10-07)There are several disasters every year that affect millions of people and trigger the need for relief items such as food, blankets, or tents. Humanitarian logistics networks organize the flow of relief items from various ... -
Trade and Uncertainty
(2014-06-03)The five chapters of this dissertation deal with the topic of trade under different kinds of uncertainty. In the first chapter, the impact of exchange rate uncertainty on exports of European countries is investigated with ... -
Trading Strategies and Return Patterns in Commodity Futures Markets
(2022-06-16)This thesis analyzes commodity futures pricing, trading activities in commodity futures contracts and their use for investment strategies. The aim of this thesis is to fill important gaps in the research field of commodity ... -
Trans* und Elternschaft Wie trans* Eltern normative Vorstellungen von Familie und Geschlecht verhandeln
(2018-11-21)In my thesis I analysed how trans* parents, who had their "coming out" after child birth, negotiate normative concepts of family and gender. It is a quality research on the base of four biographic-narrative interviews. ... -
Trust and Reciprocity in the Market-Based Provision of Public Goods. Experimental Evidence and Applications to Conservation Tenders
(2013-12-18)Payments for ecosystem services (PES) and their allocation via competitive tendering processes is an important and innovative instrument in the battle against on-going biodiversity loss. Based on a contractual arrangement ... -
Two Sides of the Same Coin? Insights on Motivational Information Systems and Goal Achievement From a User and Firm Perspective
(2021-03-09)More and more people are integrating motivational information systems (e.g., nutrition apps, fitness trackers or self-improvement websites) in their everyday lives. Such systems utilize design principles from hedonic ... -
Umgang mit Kinderarmut am Beispiel von Göttingen - Betrachtung der Strategien des Masterplans
(2012-03-06)By the example of the Masterplan gegen Kinderarmut [masterplan against child poverty] this bachelor thesis reveals that the municipal dealing with child poverty can be seen as an example ... -
Umsetzung von EU-Umweltschutz in der deutschen Land- und Forstwirtschaft
(2015-08-14)Conflicts over economic, ecologic and regional development policy goals shape the agricultural and forest policies. The scientific and practical discourses concerning those policies in the EU and Germany were heavily ... -
Undokumentierte Migration in Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten
(2005-02-03)The dissertation thesis of Holk Stobbe on undocumented migration in Germany and the United States analyses the effects of internal migration controls on the scope of action of sans papiers ... -
Une immigration déqualifiée. Diplômé-es d'études longues à la périphérie des professions supérieures françaises et allemandes
(2022-01-31)This doctoral dissertation in sociology aims to renew the analysis of contemporary migrations and of the international hierarchies that underlie them through the case of higher educated migrants. It studies specifically ... -
Ungewissheit als zentrale Erfahrung
(2017-08-18)Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) comprises Crohn's disease, ulcerative colitis and indeterminate colitis. There are approximately 300.000 people in Germany, who got diagnosed with this chronic relapsing–remitting inflammatory ... -
Untersuchungen zur Optimierung der Belastungssteuerung im Krafttraining durch Kombination verschiedener Methoden der trainingsbegleitenden Leistungsdiagnostik
(2003-01-22)Within the framework of a pilot study, the questions were pursued if and how (rehabilitative) weight training can be optimized through a combination of different regulating and diagnostic ... -
Urheberrechtspolitik in Deutschland.
(2021-09-23)Since the digitization and politicization of copyright law, an increased number of reforms could not be classified without contradictions. A broad, social-scientific debate about problems, consequences, and explanatory ... -
Ursachen früher gesundheitlicher Ungleichheiten und ihre schulischen Folgen
(2018-03-23)Origin-related educational inequalities are now well documented, but are still poorly understood in terms of the underlying mechanisms. To explain the social and ethnic inequalities in educational success, empirical ... -
Überprüfung stochastischer Modelle mit Pseudo-Residuen
(2003-02-27)In this thesis we investigate the application of pseudo-residuals for assessing the fit of probability models. Pseudo-residuals enjoy three important advantages over traditional residuals: They are applicable to a wide ... -
Valuation with Personal Taxes under Different Financing and Dividend Policies
(2019-06-26)The valuation of firms is one of the topics that valuation theorists and practitioners have addressed since the early stages of economic sciences. Firm valuations are regularly conducted using discounted cash flow (DCF) ... -
Veränderungen von Indikatoren der “Lebensqualität” nach Hochdosis-Chemotherapie
(2004-08-09)A prospective longitudinal study (13 Months) with five specific investigation times with patients (N=34) treated with high-dose chemotherapy and stem-cell transplantation is described. ... -
Vergleichende Untersuchung zur Trainingswirksamkeit eines an der Bewegungsgeschwindigkeit orientierten Trainings der Beinmuskulatur
(2013-12-04)Among other things, the question about the extent to which the parameters “isometric and dynamic maximal strength” of the leg muscles show manifold changes after twentytraining units on the Desmotronic leg press and on the ... -
Verhaltensreaktionen und Aufkommenswirkungen bei Einführung einer G(K)KB
(2016-03-23)In the course of a harmonization of corporate income taxation across the European Union an introduction of a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) has been taken into consideration for a longer period of time. ... -
Das Verhältnis zwischen Journalismus und Public Relations. Ressort und Status der Informationsquelle als Einflussfaktoren.
(2006-07-21)The theoretical departure point of this thesis is the determination hypothesis , for which Baerns first provided scientific evidence. She showed that Public Relations influenced both topics ... -
Verrechnung von Marken im Konzern
(2016-11-04)According to the dealing at arm’s length principle, the price of goods transferred or services within MNE groups should be determined by the market forces. The requirement for this, is that the market prices for such goods ... -
Verwaltete Vermarktlichung
(2019-07-24)Due to far-reaching consequences of the US subprime crisis and rising housing prices in many countries, social sciences have rediscovered housing policy as a research topic. Numerous studies show trends in marketisation ... -
Verwirkungsklauseln und Pflichtteilsrecht bei der Vererbung von Personengesellschaftsanteilen - Ein deutsch-schweizerischer Rechtsvergleich
(2013-01-09)The work deals with the admissibility of the use of penalty clause in wills against legitimate of compulsory portion by a person shareholder. The Swiss and German law are first presented separately and then considered ... -
Viele Wege führen nach Indien - Reorganisation von Arbeit im Zuge der Internationalisierung der IT-Industrie
(2011-09-09)Recent developments have caused important changes in the IT industry: while being considered comparatively resistant to international relocation of jobs for a long time, the IT industry's ... -
Von Laeken bis Lissabon: Der Reformprozess der Europäischen Union in deutschen Politikschulbüchern
(2020-02-12)In this dissertation, the chapters on the European Union (EU) from German textbooks for political education are analyzed in their context. It is assumed that textbooks are pedagogical, cultural and political media whose ... -
Die Wahrnehmung des Bildungsangebots durch arme Haushalte in Entwicklungsländern
(2004-04-23)This thesis investigates the factors that determine the demand for education in developing countries as well as the difference in the demand of poor and rich households. Next to a discussion ... -
Wahrnehmung und Vorstellung von Bewegungen - Studien im Kontext des Erwerbs sportlicher Fertigkeiten in der Kindheit
(2015-01-23)This thesis explored children´s motor and cognitive achievements while they were learning an athletic skill. For that purpose a method for measuring mental imagery of movements in young children was developed. The ... -
Weisungen zur Schuldenregulierung im Rahmen der §§ 56 c I, II Nr.1 und 56 d StGB in der strafrechtlichen Praxis
(2007-04-26)The research deals with the fact that the Order for the purpose of rehabilitation and settlement integrated into the StGB and which is possible as such: Order of the economic relations ... -
Well-Being and Shocks: Challenges in Poverty Measurement and Analysis
(2023-11-17)Goal 1 of the Sustainable Development Goals calls for a world free of poverty in 2030. Over the last decades, the world has made much progress in reducing poverty. However, COVID-19 has shown that these gains can be reversed ... -
Wettbewerb im öffentlichen Schulwesen: Strategische Interaktion und Politikinnovation in US-amerikanischen Schuldistrikten
(2006-10-25)Several empirical studies on the innovation activity of local jurisdictions are presented. Focussing on the innovation activity of local school districts in the US, structural evidence on ... -
What Explains European Union Member State Behaviors toward the Responsibility Sharing for People in Clear Need of International Protection? Bargaining Power in the EU Refugee Regime
(2022-03-14)The EU faced unprecedented refugee flows in the crucial year 2015 as the result of the civil war in Syria started in 2011 and the following political destabilization in the Middle East countries. In particular, first entry ... -
What Inclusion Leaves Out: Dalit Women, Feminism and the "Afterlives" of Educational Policy in Contemporary India
(2023-11-23)This dissertation tells the story about the beginnings, transformations and ‘afterlives’ of a set of education policies and programmes (the National Education Policy of 1986 and the Mahila Samakhya programme) that introduced ... -
When Friends Give Bad Advice
(2020-04-07)Recommendations are common in everyday interactions of consumers and strongly impact consumption decisions. Thus, understanding the driving forces that make consumers follow recommendations is equally relevant for managers ... -
When Knowledge Travels. Expert Networks in African Security Policy. Case Studies of AU and ECOWAS.
(2019-02-04)Why do the security mechanisms of the African Union (AU) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) resemble the United Nations Security Council, and each other? This thesis argues that the existing literature ... -
Why to Change Job(s)?
(2015-11-23)India has been undergoing a socio-economic transformation over the last two decades. One of the most impressive and visible changes has been the growing presence of girls and women in schools, colleges, universities, ... -
"Wie ein Vogel, der mit zwei Flügeln fliegt"
(2023-01-12)The dissertation focuses on highly religious Muslims in Germany who are involved in activities of their own religious community as well as in non-religious civil society organisations. They are thus committed to society ... -
Wie heilig sind Wald und Wasser? Die Rolle von Landschaftskonzepten im Disput um Tourismusentwicklung in einem Naturschutzgebiet in Nordbali, Indonesien
(2020-12-17)This social anthropological study deals with the tug-of-war which arose at the emergence of two investment projects in the Nature Recreation Area of Buyan-Tamblingan in Northern Bali (Indonesia). The conflict was triggered ... -
Wie viel Abstraktion erträgt die Lernwirksamkeit?
(2006-11-06)The central issue of this thesis is the subject of abstraction in teaching and learning processes through the use of models. The use of graphical verbal models is said to improve three-dimensional ... -
"Wir schützen unseren Park".
(2015-12-16)The dissertation focuses on the Pendjari National Park in northern Benin, founded as an animal protection area in 1954 under French colonial rule. Since then it has been object of often conflictual negotiations between ... -
Die Wirkmächtigkeit von masyarakat adat
(2018-12-11)In 2007 Pratt called on social scientists to concentrate on the generativity of indigeneity. Heeding his call, this dissertation focusses on the multiplicity of processes induced by an identification as masyarakat adat. ... -
Wirkung föderaler Strukturen in der staatlichen Innovationsförderung
(2015-07-10)Public innovation support claims to reach out to firms facing barriers to innovate, especially smaller firms. Earlier studies showed that governmental programmes do not fulfil those aims. But the distinctions between ... -
Die Wirkung von Incentives auf die Antwortqualität in Umfragen
(2015-11-30)In Social Sciences standardized surveys are an approved and frequently used elicitation method to get insight into attitudes of population groups. In the last decades however there has been a notable decline in the ... -
Wirtschafts- und Währungsintegration im westafrikanischen Raum unter Berücksichtigung der Besonderheiten informeller Aktivitäten
(2001-10-30)The definition of a new strategy for the integration of the developing countries in the world economy is one of the main research questions and there are many explanations for the failing of the real economy as well as the ... -
Work Analysis and Self-Determination. On the Relevance of "Socialisme ou Barbarie" .
(2008-01-15)The dissertation deals with the work analysis of the French political group Socialisme ou Barbarie 1949-1967), among them members a Cornelius -
Writ - Claim form - Klage
(2006-07-11)The author examines the development of forms of action from a historical and comparative point of view, starting with the Middle Ages Major aspects are the lega eir how ng from opposite ... -
Zeit in sozialer Interaktion im Kontext medizinischer Versorgung von Menschen mit Demenz
(2022-03-22)The influencing potential that lies in the conscious inclusion of time in social interactions has not yet been explicitly researched for the medical context - and especially for the encounter between doctors and patients. ... -
Zeit- und Volatilitätsstruktur von Zinssätzen - Modellierung, Implementierung, Kalibrierung
(2007-12-07)The thesis traces the modelling developments of the term structure of interest rates from the beginnings in the early seventies of the last century up to the multifactorial cross-currency stochastic volatility Libor ... -
Zielgruppensegmente und Positionierungsstrategien für das Marketing von Premium-Lebensmitteln
(2005-12-14)Marketing of special product qualities in the food sector in these days requires a high level of commitment and marketing skills. The food market is characterized by a polarisation into a ... -
Zielorientierungen und schulisches Lernen am Grundschulübergang
(2011-11-17)The transition from elementary to secondary school is a very important event in the life of every student that is associated with a decline in motivation (e.g., Anderman & Maehr, 1994). ... -
Zur Ermittlung individueller, lernfeldspezifischer und institutioneller Einflussfaktoren auf den Lerntransfer in der betrieblichen Weiterbildung: Eine empirische Untersuchung mit Weiterbildungsteilnehmenden aus dem Hotelgewerbe
(2021-11-16)The hotel sector is facing special challenges, such as the acute shortage of skilled workers and rising service standards. Company-sponsored further training is regarded as an appropriate measure for keeping pace with these ... -
Zur Rezeption des Spielfilms der Weimarer Republik in Südafrika 1928 - 1933
(2007-08-14)This study of the reception of Weimar Republic cinema in South Africa examines the cause and effect of German films as part of South Africa s cinema programme in the period 1928 to 1933. In a first step, the historical ... -
Zur sozialen und kulturellen Bedeutung stimmungsverändernder Medikamente. Erfahrungen von deutschen Hausarztpatienten, spanischen Migranten in Deutschland und im Herkunftsland lebenden Spaniern
(2012-05-02)Aims: To uncover the social meanings of mood-modifying drugs and to describe the underlying connotations from the users' perspective of three different samples. They consist of German primary care patients, Spanish migrants ... -
Zur Staats- und Ideologietheorie im strukturalistischen Marxismus
(2002-05-15)The investigation concerns itself with the structuralist Marxism developed in the 1960"s, which had a similar status in France to that of the "Frankfurter Schule" in Germany, above all ... -
Zwischen Funktion und Leistung
(2007-04-24)It seems almost impossible for a spectator to draw a distinction between sport and its social environment in postmodern times. And even if the effort is undertaken to draw such a distinction ... -
Zwischen Sorgerecht und Unterhaltspflicht.
(2009-01-29)Nowadays, some fathers find themselves in an inconsistent situation. On the one hand, demographic changes have caused a re-definition of men s role within families who are no longer exclusively ...