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Deep Impact Lean Startup
(2021)
How can witty visionaries - Founders for Future - change the world positively with succesful new companies? And why should they even do that? This booklet presents four important elements and a step-by-step model that show pragmatically how a "Lean Startup" with "Deep Impact" can become reality. Concise, practice-oriented and well-founded. (Dr. Thomas Middelhoff)
Managing International Political Risk: Arising Challenges for Multinationals in a Changing World
(2018)
Political risk management is a basic area especially for multinational companies to study particularly these days. In the current global environment of high political risks and policy uncertainty, it is valuable to examine the evolution of political risk perceptions of multinationals and also the tools and techniques they use to skilfully manage such risks. It is an imperative for companies, countries, business professionals and politicians, to get together for discussion about future developments and about options for securing global solidarity to the good of people and business in existing normative frameworks.
In this respect, Würzburg International Business Forum’s International Business Conference (24-25 May 2018) brought academics, professionals, business people and representatives of the public sector from the world together to analyse the current situation, trying to foresee future developments regarding political risk management within the framework of foreign direct investment and all other activities of multinational corporations.
The current global financial and economic crisis has created an unprecedented recession and very high employment in addition to huge environmental and social problems. All these have stimulated discussions among economists regarding the need for a new paradigm allowing »fairness«, »ethics«, »social and ecologic responsibility« and »sustainability« to come to the fore in the economic system.
Academic Values
(2019)
The mission of universities worldwide requires a harmonic portfolio of good values that promote the pursuit of scientific excellence in research and teaching. As academic education refers to the upcoming requirements of tomorrow’s world, it not just comprehends the gathering of new knowledge. Even more important, academic education also enables students to acquire competencies to arrange and position this knowledge within the context of the future. This helps at the same time in the transformation of our societies into harmonic and sustainable societies. This discussion paper provides a proposal for such a value set and shows how it prepares students to meet the challenges of new work.
FOUNDERS 4 FUTURE
(2020)
This publication explains based on the practice-oriented values management cycle how purposeful management of values will succeed.
Contemporary management of values as basis of sustainability in corporate development and governance and credible sustainable management takes into account visible and invisible factors from people and organization. Embedded in the basic understanding of questions of meaning, purpose and the worldviews of the acting people, it is a long-term task to identify, manage and further develop a unique portfolio of values that optimally connects and supports strategy in the company in a discourse-ethical and reflexive manner.
The practice-oriented "values management cycle" shows how purposeful management of values will succeed.
Contemporary management of values as basis of sustainability in corporate development and governance and credible sustainable management takes into account people and organization simultaneously in their interaction. Embedded in the basic understanding of meaning, purpose and the worldviews of the acting people, it is a long-term task to identify, manage and further develop a unique portfolio of values that connects and supports vision, mission and strategy of the organization in a discourse-ethical and reflexive manner.
This article examines the hiatus between constitutional principles and value-orientated practices.
It considers the risks that are at stake when the actualization of regulative principles fails in political reality, diagnosing that the political, economic, and social reality is frequently lagging far behind the potential of constitutionally guaranteed rights and duties. To this end significant parallels in the genesis of the Bavarian and the Indian Constitution are highlighted and the importance of value rankings is shown by reference to central insights of the founder of the »Soziale Marktwirtschaft« (»social market economy«) Ludwig Erhard. The authors defend the thesis that values sail in ballast when they are not part of practiced virtues. This article is the revised version of the study »The Value of Constitutional Values: An Exploratory Study of the Constitutions of India and Bavaria« first published in: Tattva. Journal of Philosophy, Vol 9, No 1, 2017, pp. 13-30; Tattva is a double blind peer-reviewed journal.
The Value of Constitutional Values: An Exploratory Study of the Constitutions of India and Bavaria
(2017)
New Methods to Advise Students: A Field Experimental Approach to Test an Online Self-Assessment
(2014)
Immer höhere Studentenzahlen stellen die Hochschulen vor die Herausforderung, Studieninteressierten neue Instrumente zur Studienganswahl an die Hand zu geben. Viele Hochschulen haben hierzu webbasierte Self-Assessments eingeführt, über deren Wirkungsweise aber bisher wenig bekannt ist. Wir nutzen die Pilot-Phase der Entwicklung eines Self-Assessments, um mit Hilfe eines Feldexperiments eine neue Datenbasis zur quantitativen Beurteilung derartiger Selbsteinschätzungshilfen zu schaffen. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass die Online-Eignungsberatung einen kausalen Einfluss auf die Immatrikulationsentscheidung der Bewerber hat. Interessenten mit guten Noten und allgemeiner Hochschulreife weisen eine höhere Teilnahmewahrscheinlichkeit an der Selbsteinschätzungshilfe auf. Ferner beeinflusst das Assessment die Selbsteinschätzung der Bewerber hinsichtlich ihres zukünftigen Studienerfolgs. Insgesamt zeigt sich aber auch, dass die Teilnahmeneigung der Bewerber an (freiwilligen) Self-Assessments noch relativ gering ist
In CSR MAGAZIN 2019, issue 33 we outlined how digital responsibility should look like. Since then, some highly innovative technical developments have taken place, but something crucial has remained the same – thankfully!
We are seeing numerous new digital innovations that contain great social and economic power for change in a huge number of areas of life and work. Probably the best-known example of this is the market-ready use of so-called artificial intelligence with interaction applications such as ChatGPT and Bard, for example, but also lesser-known applications such as LLaMA, YouChat, Claude and the counterparts from China such as Ernie or HunyuanAide. Almost every company involved in digital markets is more or less engaged in the application of such technologies or the in-house development of corresponding software products.
The European Union petition 0429/2017 wants to make the European Central Bank apply the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights in their whole core business consequently. The petition has been brought forward by Harald J. Bolsinger from Germany. In this second article, he describes backgrounds and developments around the petition until the beginning of 2023. The petition, submitted on May 8, 2017, addressed the investment policy of the ECB. Audits of violations of EU Fundamental Rights, it claimed, should be specifically included into the eligibility for EU-owned assets. As Bolsinger explains, the ECB is still involved in violations of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union through possession and trading of ethically very questionable assets.
The chapter presents the emergence and transformation of the business model of a bank that was one of the first banks in Germany to fundamentally commit to sustainability: UmweltBank AG Nuremberg. In addition to the emergence and fundamental development of the bank, principles, business objectives, challenges, and steps for the development of its own sustainability strategy are highlighted. The chapter provides reflection questions that simplify a swing into the “road of sustainability” as a model for medium-sized companies and shows the successful realignment of the bank to the SDGs of the United Nations, with which UmweltBank actively and profitably shapes its mission in the transformation process to a sustainable economy and society.
In this text, all contributions are summarized and the focus of the volume is explained. It highlights the importance of a new cultural setting for ECB sustainability strategies. From a system in which the financial sector incorporates sustainability according to its own logic, as does the real sector, the political sector, the regulatory sector, and the civil society, we need to start working on a system of mutually consistent logics to move from “(ECB) Climate Finance” to a “Climate Finance Society” and from “Sustainable Finance” to a “Sustainable Finance Society.” On this basis, one could then start working on the even more ambitious project of putting culture center stage.
The article describes the transformation of the business model of a specialist bank that was one of the first successful banks in Germany to fundamentally commit to sustainability, that were presented 2023 on the WIBF. The article provides background information about the "road of sustainability" as
a model for medium-sized companies to align to the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations. [About a brief “How-to” directly from business practice @ UmweltBank AG, Nuremberg, Germany.]
Petition 0429/2017 has been brought forward by Prof. Harald Bolsinger. In this article he describes backgrounds and developments around the petition. The petition, submitted on May the 8th 2017, addressed the investments policy of the ECB. Compliance with EU Fundamental Rights, it claimed, should be specifically included into the eligibility for EU owned assets. As Bolsinger explains, at the moment the ECB is involved in violations of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union through possession and trading of unethical securities.