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Ist die Atomkraft, als klimaneutrale Energieressource, notwendig, um die Klimakrise zu bewältigen?
(2021)
Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit wird sich mit dem Thema auseinandersetzen, ob die Verwendung von Atomkraftwerke für die Einsparung von Treibhausgasen geeignet ist und somit die Risiken der Klimakrise minimieren könnte. Hierfür werden zunächst die konventionellen und die erneuerbaren Energieressourcen in ihrer CO2-Bilanz gegenübergestellt, um eine Wissensgrundlage für den Vergleich mit der Atomkraft zu schaffen. Anschließend werden mittels aufgestellter Thesen untersucht, welche Risiken durch die Atomkraft entstehen und ob diese vergleichbar sind mit den Risiken der Klimakrise. Dabei soll hier kein endgültiger Lösungsansatz für die Probleme des Klimawandels präsentiert werden. Durch die Komplexität der Problematik, bedarf es für einen Vorschlag einer Zusammenarbeit aus verschiedenen Lösungsansätzen in mehreren Bereichen als ausschließlich des Energiesektors.
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den immer wieder auftretenden Gewaltanwendungen der Problemfans und dem Ziel, herauszufinden, ob sich ein Zusammenhang zum kindlichen/jugendlichen Umfeld erschließen lässt. Um die Forschungsfrage „Inwieweit sind die Gewaltanwendungen der Problemfans auf das kindliche/jugendliche Umfeld zurückzuführen?“, zu beantworten, wurden zwei Experteninterviews und eine umfassende Literaturrecherche durchgeführt. Festgestellt wurde dabei, dass innerhalb der Familien Problemsituationen, wie Misshandlungen, Missachtungen oder eine permissive Erziehung, vorherrschen. Aus schulischer Sicht lagen Probleme wie Mobbing oder das „Schwänzen“ der Schule vor. Ferner wurden verschiedenste Belastungssituationen in den unterschiedlichsten Lebensbereichen wie dem schulischen und beruflichen Werdegang, aber auch der Familie, im Leben der Kinder/Jugendlichen aufgezeigt. Anhand dieser Erkenntnisse konnte mittels diverser Erklärungsansätze herausgearbeitet werden, dass die Situationen einen entscheidenden Einfluss auf die Gewaltanwendungen der Problemfans haben.
In der vorliegenden Arbeit sollten Anforderungen an die charakterliche Eignung polizeilicher Nachwuchskräfte exploriert und folgende Fragestellungen beantwortet werden: (1) Welche Anforderungen an die charakterliche Eignung polizeilicher Nachwuchskräfte lassen sich identifizieren? (2) Inwieweit ergeben sich differenzierte Anforderungen für die Laufbahngruppen des mittleren und gehobenen Dienstes der Schutzpolizei sowie des gehobenen Dienstes der Kriminalpolizei? Hierzu wurden 38 mittels Critical Incident Technique (Flanagan, 1954) erhobene Interviews qualitativ ausgewertet und Anforderungen an die charakterliche Eignung polizeilicher Nachwuchskräfte der Polizei Berlin abgeleitet. Es konnte ein laufbahnübergreifendes Teil-Anforderungsprofil erstellt und herausgearbeitet werden, dass der Sozialen Kompetenz, Arbeitshaltung & Hingabe aber auch der Psychischen Stabilität eine herausragende Bedeutung für die erfolgreiche Bewältigung des Polizeidienstes zukommen.
Gesättigte Märkte, fehlende Innovationen, jederzeit abrufbare Vergleichbarkeit von Artikeln und fehlende Kundenbindung - dies sind nur einige Schlagwörter des Marketings im 21. Jahrhundert, die den heutigen Unternehmen Probleme in der Differenzierung und letztendlich dem Unternehmenserfolg bereiten.
Der bereits vollzogene Wandel von einem Verkäufermarkt zu einem Käufermarkt hat viele Unternehmen in ihren Denkstrukturen verändert. Der Kunde wird als die wichtigste Ressource innerhalb eines Unternehmens gesehen. Die Ansprüche des Kunden müssen berücksichtigt und die Marke, das Produkt und der Service darauf abgestimmt werden. Werden Güter oder Dienstleistungen gepaart mit einem Erlebnischarakter vermarktet, so entstehen hochindividualisierte Produkte. Die auf den Kunden abgestimmte Erlebnisgestaltung und die langfristige Bindung an das Unternehmen stellt einen Wettbewerbsvorteil für diese Unternehmen dar.
Diese Erlebnisgestaltung wird auch als Customer Experience bezeichnet. Der Kunde kauft hier nicht nur das Produkt, sondern eine Erfahrung mit dem Unternehmen. Beispiele sind hier die Porsche Experience Center, Ritter Sport Bunte Schokowelt in Berlin oder das vor kurzem eröffnete Customer Experience Center von Panasonic in München. Das Erlebnis-Shopping ist in unserer Gesellschaft bereits angekommen und wird immer wichtiger, ganz egal ob sich dies auf digitalen oder stationären Plattformen abspielt.
In meinem Forschungsteil soll die Auswirkung von Customer Experience Center auf die langfristige Bindung der Kunden sowie der Kundenloyalität mittels Experteninterviews untersucht werden.
SHEconomy in Asia has highlighted the changes in women’s gender roles, lifestyles, and consumption patterns. The traditionally male-dominated fitness industry faces the challenge of this new female market opportunity, which consequently urges the current research to investigate the impact of gender role attitudes in the Asian female fitness industry. The study aims to empirically explore the relationships between gender role attitudes, self-perception, fitness perception, brand perception and purchase intention, and compare the results in China and Taiwan. With a quantitative methodology, a 35-item online questionnaire was completed by female respondents of an age between 25 to 34 in urban cities from China (N=314) and Taiwan (N=426). Results of structural equation modeling demonstrated that gender role attitudes have a positive impact on self-, and fitness perception in both China and Taiwan whereby the effect on brand perception only occurs in China. In general, gender role attitudes have stronger influences in China. Moreover, self-, fitness and brand perception positively affect purchase intention in both places; brand perception plays a major role, especially for Taiwan. Fitness perception also mediates the relationship between gender role attitudes and purchase intention in China and Taiwan. The research validated the impact of gender role attitudes, contributed to a better understanding of Asian female consumer behaviors for fitness brands, and finally identified the similarities yet revealed differences between China and Taiwan. Implications were drawn for the development of marketing practices and directions for further research were proposed.
The study is attempting to survey whether the connectedness among leadership, employee voice, and the awareness of equity of employee can eventually be a complement of the achievements of office in German companies, and to scrutinize if the German experiences can be transplant to Taiwan. According to this rationale, the study endeavors to check whether the leadership affects to employee voice and whether the awareness of equity of employee moderates the effects of leadership on employee voice in German companies.
By using questionnaire survey with simple sampling, the results reveal that there are significant differences between sex and between occupations in the cognition of decision making of leadership; furthermore, there are significant differences between sex in orientation of change of employee voice behavior, and there also are significant differences between education in the cognition of considerable risk of employee voice behavior. Employee voice behavior is significantly affected by decision making, administrative method, interpersonal communication, and personal motivation of leadership, and the effects of leadership on employee voice behavior is significantly moderated by the distributive and interactional fairness of the awareness of equity.
Conclusively, by learning from German companies, the companies in Taiwan should build an environment full of trustworthiness, empowerment, and identification that make office members want to speak out, and managers in Taiwan companies can learn how to make employees recognize they are safe and free to make a speech relevant to leadership, business management and organizational development.
Keywords: Leadership, Employee Voice Behavior, Awareness of Equity, German, Taiwan
The German startup landscape consists of 75% early-stage startups (Kollmann et al. 2020. Especially young startups face challenges to tap into traditional sources of funding, such as bank loans, because they have little securities to offer and often lack a sufficient business model, as re-occurring inflows are uncertain (Carpenter and Petersen, 2002; Hall, 2002). Venture capitalists are willing to take on higher risk in return for a share of the company and its profits (Caselli and Negri 2018). Additionally, they offer a variety of benefits like network, experience and advice, which is especially interesting for young startups. Since two out of three startups fail to generate a positive return (Eisenmann 2021) venture capitalists have thorough screening procedures before investing. Hence equity investing in early-stage startups has long been an exclusive activity to potent players on the capital market.
Crowd investing platforms like Companisto and Seedmatch have started to change the venture capital landscape, as they allow private persons to invest in startups like a VC in form of equity (Companisto 2021d). This means, that private persons can profit from startup success as soon as they create revenues or when the company is sold.
There are some platforms that aim to match startups and venture capitalists, but little is known about which criteria enable an optimal match. Thus, this thesis went on an endeavor to identify critical success factors, that foster high-quality matchmaking between startups and venture capital investors. Key factors can be divided into two categories. Firstly, soft
factors like trust, sympathy and leadership, which are difficult to depict on a platform.
Secondly, hard factors like investment target, number of customers, positioning and market
relevance. If a platform understands the principles that drive the decision making of startups
and venture capitalists, it can facilitate the deal making and could profit greatly from the
expected network effects. Because startups and venture capitalists would benefit from a
higher matching quality and thus promote the platform’s success.
Die Kurier-, Express-, und Paketbranche erlebt seit über 15 Jahren einen stetigen Umsatzanstieg. Dies ist hauptsächlich dem Versandhandel zuzuschreiben. Mit diesem Boom gehen auch große Herausforderungen für die Dienstleister einher, insbesondere auf der letzten Meile. In Kombination mit der zunehmenden Urbanisierung bilden sich weitreichende logistische Probleme die zusätzlich vor dem Hintergrund der nachhaltigen Entwicklung zu lösen sind.
Diese Bachelorarbeit befasst sich mit der Forschungsfrage, in wie fern eine nachhaltige Adaption der letzten Meile im Rahmen der Kundenzufriedenheit möglich ist. Im Sinne dieser Forschungsfrage wird die entsprechende Theorie zugrunde gelegt und anschließend eine quantitative Umfrage durchgeführt. Die empirische Forschungsmethode untersucht den Einfluss von Umweltfaktoren auf das Kaufverhalten und die Erwartungshaltung von potentiellen Kunden des Versandhandels.
Hierbei wird Bezug auf drei Faktoren genommen, die sich in der theoretischen Grundlage als entscheidend für den Kundenservice erwiesen haben: die Lieferdauer, der Lieferpreis, sowie die Übergabekonditionen. Unter den zehn Fragen, finden sich neben den demographischen Aspekten, sechs inhaltliche Fragen, zwei zu jedem Versandfaktor, welche jeweils eine fünf-stufige Likert-Skala zur Antwortauswahl anbieten. Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass besonders die Lieferdauer einen weiträumigen Spielraum zur nachhaltigen Entwicklung der letzten Meile bietet.
The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of privacy concerns and regulation on the development of voice assistants. With particular focus on Amazon Alexa, the effects of customer mistrust and privacy policies on innovation processes will be analyzed. With voice assistants becoming increasingly ubiquitous, personal, and pervasive, customers and legislators have questioned their trustworthiness. The vendor’s dependence on the collection and processing of vast amounts of data to perform, and continuously improve customer requests has resulted in significantly higher customer privacy concerns. Consequently, leading companies have been facing challenges to gain customer trust. In an attempt to give an overview of how customer trust, privacy policy, and the continuous development of voice assistants relate, and to provide recommendations on how Amazon can safeguard customer trust while remaining innovative, this paper combines the review of current literature with a qualitative study. Through three semi-structured interviews with experts from leading voice assistant providers, the research problem is investigated. The findings indicate that customer trust is mediated and moderated by a set of variables. Generally, privacy policies have a positive effect on customer trust and perceived privacy. Voice service providers can actively nurture positive influences of trust, while mitigating adverse effects, by understanding trust beyond the issue of data collection requirements. Therefore, this paper enhances the understanding of the drivers of mistrust and the relationship between customer trust, privacy policies, and innovation.
Die Insolvenzordnung und die Covid-19 Pandemie Eine Gegenüberstellung und Ausblick in die Zukunft
(2021)
Addressing Systemic Risk in Europe during Covid-19: policies, limitations, and challenges ahead
(2021)
This work examines the impacts which the Covid-19 pandemic brought to the stability of the European financial sector. Lockdowns, businesses unable to operate and uncertainty about how the pandemic would evolve fueled a sharp recession. From the lessons learned in the global financial crises and the Eurozone debt crises, there’s an increasing role of macroprudential policies, especially the regiments of the Basel III framework and the monetary policy toolkit. Alongside macroprudential regulation, the European Central Bank provided substantial monetary policy easing, for instance the release of capital buffers and other capital requirements, expanding the TLTRO III and Pandemic Emergency Program which facilitated monetary policy transmission. Authorities also deployed strong fiscal policies which encompassed from tax holidays to direct transfers to households and firms. The combination of fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policy was unprecedented and helped the economy during the shutdown moments. As a result, indicators of systemic risks in the banking sector during the pandemic remained relatively stable. Nevertheless, some challenges might emerge in the medium-term when policies are phased-out, namely the increasing size of non-performing loans and the sovereign doom-loop. Thus, in the final part of this text a stress test is conducted to evaluate the possible future impacts of the pandemic in the banking sector.
Startup incubation at universities is becoming increasingly important due to their ability to promote entrepreneurship among students and to increase the chance of survival of the created ventures. Moreover, due to the typically longer years of work experience of MBA students relative to other students, MBA students represent a key segment that such programs should target as previous research has shown that experience is a success factor in startup founders. However, there is little research in available literature on how to design startup incubation programs to maximize the participation and success of MBA students.
In this thesis, startup incubation programs at some leading universities around the world is surveyed. The goal is to come up with a framework inspired by the traits, internal or eco-system based, common to the successful university-based startup incubators. By evaluating these success factors with the preferences of MBA students, the thesis proposes certain services or processes that should be considered to design a university-based incubation program for MBA students. The result will be useful to university managers seeking to build an enduring entrepreneurial ecosystem and improve the entrepreneurial support services at their universities, especially for MBA students.
The thesis is composed of two aspects: first and foremost, desk research is conducted to catalogue the support services that are available to student entrepreneurs at some leading university-based startup incubators around the world. Secondly, a case study of part-time MBA students at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin) is conducted through a survey and series of interviews. The study reveals several interesting results:
• All the studied startup incubators offer comparable basic services including, mentorship, workspace, seminars, funding, network, etc. The key difference is how those services are provisioned and the extent to which they use specific services to differentiate themselves.
• The universities place entrepreneurship at a center stage with the involvement of the universities’ top management and several institutions within and outside the universities, i.e., they build entrepreneurial ecosystems, rather than isolated startup incubation programs.
• The universities leverage their relative strengths or situation in their entrepreneurial support services e.g., technologically oriented universities such as MIT, Technion, NUS and TUM, focus on creating an environment where more innovation is created and on technology commercialization, Stanford University offers remarkable access to Silicon Valley, SETsquared partnership raises the profile of its members by creating critical mass in a regional alliance.
• Stanford University and MIT have diverse programs that give students multiple entry points to the ecosystems and allow the students’ experience to be easily customizable according to their needs.
• The case study showed an improved entrepreneurial self-efficacy (self-confidence) among the MBA students during the period of their MBA studies. Of equal significance, the study also showed a higher degree of improvement among final year students compared to first-year students of the two-year program. This could hint towards a modular design of startup incubation programs for MBA students, with more advanced activities left for the later part of the program.
• The survey revealed the preference of MBA students for a strong network, availability of mentors and coaches, and access to funding at their startup incubation center. A revelation which further strengthens the case for creating ecosystems.