This thesis undertakes a philosophical examination of three figures at the heart of post-bureaucratic thought – the figures of the creative manager, the authentic leader and the entrepreneur. While the figures of the creative manager, the authentic leader and the entrepreneur share the aim of...

The way corporations are accounted for is tremendously important for shaping the way investors and other stakeholders see and assess them. A new understanding of the purpose of financial accounting with adjoining accounting methods thus creates powerful incentives for corporate managers to...

The current model of corporate governance needs reform. There is mounting evidence that the practices of shareholder primacy drive company directors and executives to adopt the same short time horizon as financial markets. Pressure to meet the demands of the financial markets drives stock...

Corporate governance reform for promoting efficiency and wealth creation by large corporations has been much in vogue for a few decades now (Lazonick and O'Sullivan, 2000; Filatotchev and Boyd, 2009). The academic field of corporate governance has been equally vibrant with a burgeoning of theory and...

Dieser Beitrag unterbreitet einen Vorschlag zur Berücksichtigung von Atmosphären bei der Analyse der sozialen Konstruktion von Landschaften. Ausgehend von einem Überblick über Ansätze der konstruktivistischen Landschaftsforschung mit einem Schwerpunkt auf den deutschsprachigen Raum wird ein...

Eine stabile und flächendeckende Mobilfunknetzabdeckung wird zunehmend als Notwendigkeit erachtet. Um diese bereitzustellen, bedarf es eines weitreichenden Netzausbaus. Vor dem Hintergrund von Ängsten um mögliche gesundheitliche Auswirkungen elektromagnetischer Felder geht die Installation...

Starting with the liberalization of electricity trading, this market grew rapidly over the last decade. However, while spot and future markets are rather liquid nowadays, option trading is still limited. One of the potential reasons for this is that the spot price process of electricity is still...

This paper analyzes the impact of model complexity on the net present value distribution and the expected default probability of equity investments in project finance. Model complexity is analyzed along two dimensions: simulation complexity and forecast complexity. We aim to identify model...

Naturparke bilden die älteste Schutzgebietskategorie in Deutschland. Neben Aufgaben wie Naturschutz und Erholung wurde ihnen als relativ neue und zentrale Aufgabe die nachhaltige Regionalentwicklung, verankert im Bundesnaturschutzgesetz sowie den meisten Landesnaturschutzgesetzen, zugesprochen....