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The global currency system leads to unequal outcomes. This paper aims to
define the factors that make the dollar-dominated system unequal for
economically developing countries and looks at three suggestions on how to improve the system including Stiglitz’s global greenback, Ocampo’s SDR-based global currency, and Eichengreen’s tweaking of the edges.
Universities using traditional teaching methods have an educational problem which ultimately turns into a corporate branding issue. While there are some papers mentioning the powerful impact collaborative activities in higher education can have, there was no study found which measures quantitatively the effect of (co-created) teaching environments on consumer-based brand equity, brand preference and motivation. The objective of this thesis was to analyse how far collaborative teaching environments can contribute to co-creating strong university brands and by that solve educational and managerial issues. Therefore, a 4x3 between-subjects design was selected. The study found out that collaborative course design methods have a greater positive influence on outcome variables than traditional course design methods. Also, the flipped classroom model affects the outcomes variables more positively than conventional teaching methods. Implementing co-creation methods in higher education increases competitiveness of universities. In addition, there is not one best collaborative tactic, but several best tactics exist for different purposes. A strategically intelligent market position within higher education can be created by starting to implement the philosophy of co-creation by first applying a flipped classroom model. After universities master it, they should find ways to reduce the complexity factors of implementing collaborative course design methods and integrate those tactics into their arsenal. The study is so far limited that it only consisted of imagined scenarios and was not a field study. Further, scale reliability was not confirmed for every construct. Also, governmental regulations in higher education can restrict universities' collaborative designing efforts. Future researches should work on the notion of co-creation qualification in HE. So do specific types of students, courses and teachers qualify more for the integration of collaborative tactics than others. Last but not least, it remains unclear how far co-creation in the educational space can affect not only students' life at university, but majorly impact their personal development over a longer time period.
The interplay between the specific nature of Early Stage Startups arising problems, the challenging determination for investors to set an appropriate investment price faced with several limitations of traditionally valuation approaches, motivated the author to investigate how far do qualitative valuation correlates with the development stage of the startup and in what way this assumption changes when the startup matures and the application of quantitative valuation increases. Moreover, during the theoretical research, it raised the question to what extent any valuation methods on their own, may be the only one influencing reason investors invest in.
Based on 6 expert interviews, first assumption is partially true, the second one is falsified, which leads to interesting further research areas to investigate.
This bachelor thesis investigates the influence of national culture on the feasibility of self-management practices, such as Holacracy. On the basis of qualitative interviews with six holacracy-experienced individuals from Germany, USA and Netherlands, indicators for relevant cultural influences based on the individual perception on Holacracy are examined. A conceptualized relation of Geert Hofstede’s research on cultural dimensions and employee related success factors for the implementation of Holacracy builds the framework for the analysis. The findings suggest that a correlation between the national culture and the feasibility of self-management practices exist, which is in line with the occurrence of holacratic companies across different countries. The analysis confirms the expectation that employee related indicators support the implementation of Holacracy in the Dutch and American culture. In contrast, less supporting factors were observed for the German culture, which would explain the limited number of holacratic organizations in Germany.
Inlight oftheincreasing importanceof digital andtechnological innovations,
corporations drive innovation initiatives in collaborations with startup through
corporate accelerators. How the corporate accelerator supports both parties
throughout the innovation process in regard to communication and the
exchange of information, has not been fully studied and gives an opportunity for
further analysis. Within t his thesis the supportive work of the corporate
accelerator has been empirically studied with the conduction of three i nterviews
with two experts from corporate accelerators and one startup founder and
provides in-depth insights and perspectives on the respective subject.