Autobiografien sind ein traditionsreiches und auch prominentes Format öffentlicher Selbstthematisierung, Selbstdarstellung und -inszenierung. Für die soziologische Forschung sind Autobiografien ein attraktiver Gegenstand, weil wir darüber immer auch etwas über eine jeweilige Gesellschaft,...

Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Bangladesh have been growing for the preceding two decades in various ways. Even though these enterprises exert an important effect on the national economy of the country, they face certain challenges and suffer in quite a manner. To reduce the...

Turnaround process involved many approaches of strategic and tactical attempts. However, such knowledge are difficult to identified since many previous studies only focused on what constitute successful turnaround, and limited to the use of financial data. As turnaround is a transformational...

The evaluation of scientific output has a key role in the allocation of research funds and academic positions. Decisions are often based on quality indicators for academic journals and over the years a handful of scoring methods have been proposed for this purpose. Discussing the most prominent...

Based on the microbased panel datasets of the Labour Force Survey between 1998 and 2010 and the administrative Pension Fund data between 2000 and 2006 we analyse the number, composition and subsequent labour market behaviour of former public sector employees in Hungary. We show that the greater...

This article analyses dealer satisfaction data in the agricultural technology market in Germany. The dealers could rate their suppliers in the ?overall satisfaction? and in 38 questions which can be summarized in 8 dimensions. An ordinal regression model which is also known as the proportional...

Ziel dieser Handreichung ist es, grundsätzliche Einstiegsfragen zum Thema Öffnen und Teilen von qualitativen Forschungsdaten zu beantworten. Dabei verstehen wir unter Öffnen und Teilen die Zugänglichmachung zur Sekundärnutzung für andere Forschende. In dieser Handreichung werden wir auf...

This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends on the extent to which people adapt to living conditions in general. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the estimation of a dynamic panel data model...

This article presents a study about the symbolic significance of shopping in the organic store. The data are based on autobiographic reports and analyzed using grounded theory. The result is a concept with finding of identity and well-being as the main categories. According to these categories,...