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Companies’ actions towards a Sustainable Supply Chain - A comparative analysis of the food industry
(2020)
Many fields of science and business are currently undergoing technological changes. Possible future prospects and the impact of our ever increasing reliance on digital algorithms are key factors influencing this field of research. However, only few confront contemporary digitalization with socially unjustified effects. Therefore, this work focuses on the main research question: Can the transparency and fairness concerning the probabilistic distributions of computer based selections be ensured? Or, in contrary, do the current power ranks promote an amplification of bias found in training datasets that swiftly impact marginalized populations at scale. We are still a long way from intellectual and creative thinking computer networks. Our current notion of artificial intelligence (AI) is based on neural networks, which can emit individual "thought processes" based on historical data and homogeneous developer teams. This is not self contained thinking but merely a copy of human thought patterns, which may well be affected by discrimination, e.g. job selection,
credit-ratings, healthcare or other types of personal appraisals. Machine Learning (ML), so far, can not filter out individual human abilities based on historical data and discriminating coding.
This work discusses possible reasons for biased opinions of machine learning classification systems. Also, the social question focusing on gender roles and potential winners and losers through technological changes are explored. Finally, approaches for anti discriminatory use of AI are proposed.
Influences of the Belt and Road Initiative on the Competitiveness of the Chinese Construction Sector
(2020)
In this work the business case and model of a closed freelancer matching platform named COMATCH is introduced to explain the company’s internationalisation and growth prac-tises. Underlining the utmost importance of networks in today`s B2B environment of the consulting industry, the case shows where digitalisation is nevertheless gaining ground, and at which speed. Firstly, underlying principles are reviewed (the revised Uppsala model, the born global firm, the gazelle theory) and the current growth and change of the consulting industry displayed. Then, by generating an inside-out look of the two-sided marketplace based on qualitative research, the case companies perspective is developed. Both approaches are concluded to extract managerial implications. Lastly, possibilities and limitations of the work and approach are discussed.
Management in globalen Konzernen - Die Diversität von Vorständen als strategisches Instrument
(2020)
This thesis deals with the Solidarity Economy in relation to its economic environment. Thereby an explanation of terms of the Solidarity Economy and the current dominant economic system is given. Solidarity enterprises are analysed with regard to the question to which extent solidarity-based enterprises are able to uphold their political, economic and solidarity aim within a capitalistic market economy. In order to do so, the existing field of tension between a company’s aspiration and the economic market economy will be analysed.
Four conflict areas will be identified and examined on the basis of two case studies. As a main finding, this thesis reveals, that the success of the solidarity-based enterprises depends on three factors: firstly, on the acceptance of the potential conflict area by the organisations, secondly on their willingness to compromise and to make every compromise transparent, and thirdly on the support of politics, state and society.