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In today’s economy, organizations struggle with an increasingly complex and fast-changing environment. The aftermath of the economic crisis in 2008 is still present and the global economic growth is slow. More organizations nowadays use projects as a standard way of doing business. However, many projects are behind schedule, over budget or fail to meet project goals. In fact only 56% of strategic initiatives meet their original goals and business intent.
Lean thinking was once able to enormously improve efficiency in the manufacturing sector and has been implemented across industries. Applying lean thinking to project manage-ment can optimize traditional project management by reducing waste, saving resources, and leading towards project excellence. Lean project management focuses on creating value for the customer and making an effort to reduce waste in the value chain.
The aim of this thesis is to elaborate why traditional projects fail, to analyze which lean concepts are relevant to project management and how a lean project management frame-work can look like.
A case study of the REA group (REA), a small project office for renewable energy pro-jects, is presented in this thesis. As lean has its origin in the manufacturing sector and agile evolved in the IT industry, the thesis deliberately presents an unfamiliar industry. Within the case study existing project management practices and common challenges will be iden-tified and examined whether changes towards a lean approach should be made.
This paper analyzes the differences in labor demand
between family and non-family firms. The majority of firms in modern economies are still family controlled. In addition, these firms seem to exhibit
better employment performance than other companies. Therefore, this study estimates a labor demand
model with German establishment panel data. Moreover, a Heckman correction is introduced to the regressions to avoid selectivity. The results of random effects and fractional panel probit estimations
indicate that own-wage and output elasticities are
lower in absolute values, thus supporting the assumption that family firms offer higher job security and are more risk averse than other establishments. However, this result does not hold if the in
vestigation is restricted to establishments with 20 or
more employees. There is no evidence of different b
ehavior in larger family firms.
This work develops an evaluation framework to Arts
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Based Brand Research (ABBR) to make methods
comparable. Further the evaluation framework is used to compare four arts
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based methods. It turned
out that previous studies try to capture the brand image on a verbal cognitive level, but this proceeds cannot detect the unconscious emotions and attributes. There is a risk of standardized survey, because the emotions and attributes
to the brand, which manifest themselves through images, colors,
fragrances, etc., cannot be detected. The reason is the loss between the "translations" of non
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verbal in
the verbal attributes. Therefore, there are arts
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based methods that allow working closely on the human
senses. Four methods were compared based on the evaluation framework: Lego Serious Play (LSP),
Multi Sensory Sculpting (MSS), Psychodrawing (PD) and Collage (C). The results of this study show that the newly developed evaluation framework allows a distinguished and systematic comparison of
market research methods. The evaluation framework led to the conclusion that art
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based methods are
well suited even on sensitive issues such as sustainability. Futhermore the respondents felt the methods as entertaining and enjoyable. The Methods Collage and Psychodrawing performed particularly
well with respect to the required time and the variety of associations.
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The master’s thesis addresses the question whether currency devaluations boost aggregate demand in small open economies in the short run from a post-Kaleckian point of view. Existing open economy versions of the post-Kaleckian model are presented and it is shown how they can be used to analyse the demand effects of currency devaluations. In the existing models, the effect of a currency devaluation on aggregate demand is ambiguous and depends on certain parameter values. Different approaches to modelling the distributional effects of devaluations are discussed and evaluated. All the existing models, however, disregard balance sheet effects that arise from foreign currency-denominated debt. The thesis therefore develops a novel post-Kaleckian model that builds on the existing literature but introduces external debt and balance sheet effects. The model is then used to analyse the effects of a currency devaluation on aggregate demand, growth, and external debt dynamics. The main findings are that the existence of balance sheet effects makes contractionary devaluations more likely, and that balance sheet effects, foreign interest rate hikes and a high propensity to finance investment out of foreign currency denominated debt have destabilising effects.
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The International migration became an ever-growing phenomena that has immense impact over the development of bothsending and receiving countries. However, recently the public opinion prevails the downside of the immigration. Claiming that immigration would contribute
negatively to the host countries .Since it may cause either economic hardship, in addition the security concerns. Many politicians and policy makers used the argument that migration may turn to be an economic burden in destination countries due to global financial crisis and the flow of low skilled migrants. In this paper we will explore, if their arguments is proved by literature and theory through understanding the causes of the immigration and its socio economic impacton the host countries. Providing Germany as a case study and illustrative example.
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The modern capitalist corporate food regime is driven by large agroindustries, commodification of nature, monoculture, chemical contamination, land grabbing, and is becoming ever more self-destructive for food producers, consumers, and the whole planet as our web of life. In order to correct and adjust Anthropocene made climate change again and to abandon the false transfer of power from MNC to the power of the people, only a global struggle in localized agroecology can be a solution. As finance-led capitalism has increasingly urged politicized confrontation with the dominance of neoliberalism and agribusiness, the people who are looking to their own pool of ideas in a form of resistance to the "supreme knowledge monoculture", have increased their process of sharing and transferring knowledge, also called diálogo de saberes. This dialog among different knowledges and ways of knowing brought along important 'emergences' from the radical-transformative approach of food sovereignty to its paradigm of agroecology under the struggle of La Via Campesina. This movement has been able to group farmers, landless people, rural proletarian, indigenous people, consumers and even researchers by understanding inclusive diversity as enrichment. Most strikingly, small-scale food producers from developing countries come together with small-scale food producers from the industrial countries, while it is actually the latter's “free trade” agreements and practices that slow out small peasantry in developing countries. Nevertheless, they find and choose common ground by focusing on similarities and joint challenges such as the need for locally controlled food systems and the combined and connected grassroots action against the international violence of power by the corporate food regime. As an example, this thesis reflects on the positive and critical experiences of the Cuban illustrative agroecology training methodology practiced for more than two decades now. The learning values are identified, analyzed and adapted to the current European process of scaling up and strengthening the agroecology training network in the European section of La Via Campesina, the European Coordination Via Campesina. Conclusively, the thesis contributes to the movement by linking and advancing European’s collective action by looking “up” to Cuba’s experiences in the sense of horizontal diálogo de saberes.
The increase of the use of Information Technology (IT) in recent years has generated counter-‐effects on governments, businesses and economies around the world. Cyber terrorism represents a direct and indirect danger to critical infrastructure of governments and corporations as well as IT systems and networks, since it constitutes a low-‐cost weapon. Countries form their national cyber strategies, and policies encompassing cyber defense and deterrence strategies against cyberattacks. However, acknowledging the fact that threat has no boundaries, national strategies become inefficient when it comes to the responses. This dissertation aims to raise awareness of cyberterrorism which exposes to a risk not only states but also corporations. It discusses the need of international legal framework; emphasizes the significance of formulating an international corporation on cyber defense and deterrence to fight against it, and to preserve global stability and prosperity. It draws upon the necessity to establish a clear and common definition of a term 'cyberterrorism' as well as a set of internationally agreed cyber security standards to deal with threats. Finally, the dissertation conducts the analysis of the methods and represents essential steps forward that need to be taken to combat cyber terrorism
Abstract
Restrukturierungen stellen umfangreiche Veränderungsprozesse in Organisation dar. Kurzfristige Produktivitätssteigerungen oder Kostensenkungen sind dabei die häufigsten Ziele der Unternehmen. Mittel- und langfristige ökonomische Folgen aufgrund von negativen gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen durch Restrukturierungen auf die Belegschaften bleiben derzeit – trotz Fachkräftemangel – zumeist unberücksichtigt. Welche Faktoren für die Gesundheit von Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmern in Restrukturierungen eine Rolle spielen und welche Handlungsmöglichkeiten das Management für gesundheitserhaltende Restrukturierungen hat, untersucht in Form einer literaturbasierten Analyse die vorliegende Abschlussarbeit