This research was conducted by Coaches and Mentors of South Africa's (COMENSA) Research Portfolio Committee (RPC) on behalf of the COMENSA board and the COMENSA Supervision Portfolio Committee (SPC). The purpose was to investigate how international and relevant literature defines supervision and...

In den letzten Jahrzehnten ging die Schere zwischen den Reichen und der übrigen Gesellschaft immer weiter auseinander. Vor diesem Hintergrund wurden Ungleichheit und Reichtum nicht nur von den Sozialwissenschaften und anderen Disziplinen als Forschungsthemen wiederentdeckt, sondern zuletzt auch...

Blockchain was introduced in 2008, yet it remains poorly defined over a decade later. Despite the lack of a universally accepted definition, its utility continues to be widely advocated. However, a function or feature can only be classified as a technology if it addresses a specific human...

The objective of Directive 2011/92/EU on the assessment of the effects of certain public and private projects on the environment (the 'Environmental Impact Assessment Directive', or 'EIA Directive') is to ensure that projects that are likely to have a significant effect on the environment are...

In the race for international leadership in the field of artificial intelligence, China has been in first place for years - both in terms of the number of AI research contributions and of citations. Since the publication of ChatGPT at the end of 2022 at the latest, this contradicts the general...

In der Betriebswirtschaftslehre werden Dienstleistungen gemeinhin als immaterielle Güter definiert. Der Beitrag verdeutlicht, dass es sich hierbei um ein grundlegendes, ontologisches Missverständnis handelt, bei dem Prozesse mittels Objektmerkmalen beschrieben werden. Der Trugschluss, bei...

Geld ist mehr als ein bedruckter Papierschein oder ein Eintrag auf einem Bankkonto: Es ist eine komplexe soziale Infrastruktur, die das Zusammenleben in modernen Gesellschaften in vielerlei Hinsicht ermöglicht und prägt. Woraus besteht diese Infrastruktur, und was an ihr ist politisch? Die im...

Die heutige Cyberversicherung markiert das Ende einer Entwicklung, die zu Beginn der 1970er Jahre ihren Anfang genommen hat. Der Umfang der Deckung hat sich seit der Einführung der Cyberversicherung zu Beginn der 2010er Jahre kontinuierlich erweitert. Neu und insoweit innovativ ist die Aufnahme...

We report on our test of the Large Language Model (LLM) ChatGPT (GPT) as a tool for generating evidence of the ordinary meaning of statutory terms, We explain why the most useful evidence for interpretation involves a distribution of replies rather than only what GPT regards as the single "best"...

Despite the fact that family firms represent a large percentage of all firms worldwide, methodological contributions regarding their estimation are very scarce. This paper offers a methodology for identifying family versus non-family firms using the SABI Informa database (Spanish version of...

This paper aims to describe a highly pervasive and under-reported context-specific phenomenon of entrepreneurship, specifically in light of the rise in different types of entrepreneurial activities in Africa. Explicably, this paper accepts that entrepreneurship typologies are different across...

Purpose Human resource development (HRD) poses complex challenges for scholars and practitioners due to its elusive nature in definition, scope, and boundaries. Driven by lived experiences, this integrative literature review aims to explore the complexities of HRD, focusing on its...

Purpose - The aim of this paper is to clearly mark the clusters in the related literature using bibliometric analysis and draw useful implications for the academic research purposes especially in the stream of Supply Chain Management (SCM). Design/methodology/approach - By employing rigorous...

Dieses Dialogpapier adressiert die Rolle und Aufgaben von Hochschulen und öffentlich geförderten Forschungseinrichtungen im gesellschaftlichen Wissenstransfer. Das Papier richtet sich an Entscheidungsträger*innen und Fachleute in Politik und Verwaltung sowie in Hochschulen und in weiteren...

"Business Process Standardization" (BPS) is a practice intended to achieve consistency across underlying organizational processes, in support of service-delivery excellence and optimization of costs and benefits. Given the growing importance of BPS, there is need in both research and practice...

This research was conducted by Coaches and Mentors of South Africa's (COMENSA) Research Portfolio Committee (RPC) on behalf of the COMENSA board and the COMENSA Supervision Portfolio Committee (SPC). The purpose was to investigate how international and relevant literature defines supervision and...

This entry in the online Global Dictionary of Competition Law defines the term trade secret: information that has commercial value to an organization due to its secrecy, is not known outside of the organization, and the continuing secrecy of which the organization has taken reasonable measures...

Affordable health care, insurance, and prescription drugs are priorities for the public and for policymakers. Yet the lack of a consensus definition of health affordability is increasingly recognized as a roadblock to health reform efforts. This Article explains how and why American health law...

This study sees that the Aristotelian method of defining things is limited and is limited to what can be understood and separated. Therefore there are many, and very many things that cannot be subject to the definition of Aristotelian logic, the first of which is the Holy Essence (God), His...

While the term ’platform’ is ubiquitous in everyday language, its precise definition in the context of topics related to competition, policy and antitrust still remains ambiguous. This arguably for technical reasons which are trivial to grasp but seemingly difficult to communicate en masse....

This article proposes a new framework to analyse greenwashing practices of companies. In order to build this framework, we first analyse the main results and the main shortcomings of sustainable finance, and notably the ESG analysis blindspots, as ESG depends too much on corporate disclosure....

This article examines what I refer to as the Zaru Effect, a sociological phenomenon that describes when law enforcement officers close their eyes to harm perpetuated by private actors against trans women. It briefly touches upon law enforcement’s arrest of trans women when they make...

Leadership is a universal phenomenon that has preoccupied scholars, politicians and others for centuries. Zagoršek observed: “. . . the simultaneous appearance of social institutions such as government, organized religion, and a significant role for individual leaders argues that there may...

How has digitalization shaped the landscape of Canada's economy? In this paper, we seek to grasp the breadthof digitalization. We define digitalization and distinguish it from other related concepts, such as information and communication technologies (ICT) and the digital economy. We then assess...

The main idea of the article says that the concept BM imitation (BMIm) has not been developed adequately in the strategic management field, even though it has been greatly used recently by researchers. Therefore, the aim of our research is to propose a definition of BMIm and to highlight the...

Dieses Dialogpapier adressiert die Rolle und Aufgaben von Hochschulen und öffentlich geförderten Forschungseinrichtungen im gesellschaftlichen Wissenstransfer. Das Papier richtet sich an Entscheidungsträger*innen und Fachleute in Politik und Verwaltung sowie in Hochschulen und in weiteren...