In diesem Papier wird aus historischer und begriffskritischer Perspektive die Ent-wicklung des öffentlichen Nahverkehrs in Deutschland zu einem Bestandteil der Daseinsvorsorge nachgezeichnet. Zum einen werden sowohl die politischen Umbrü-che als auch die sozial-ökonomischen Veränderungen...

A firm's ability to shape its policies to meet societal demands depends on how it perceives the opportunities and risks in its environment. We hypothesized that corporate culture plays a significant role in shaping organizational perceptions. This paper summarizes the findings of a study on how...

Unfortunately, most students leave the university with little knowledge about decision-making in the public sector. Unless they study towards a management degree, most students experience little to no business education in their curricula. As a consequence, student perceptions of the business...

Viewed in the light of the theory of accidental excellence, there is much to suggest that the success of the Internet and its various protocols derives from a communications technology accident, or better, a series of accidents. In the early 1990s, many experts still saw the Internet as an...

This article explores the wide range of roles that consultants can play to either enable or hinder organizational learning processes. A core concept in this analysis is the achievement of an appropriate marginality of the consultants’ role, in order to allow the organizational members to...

This essay analyzes the 1996 decision by the California Air Resources Board to revise its program for promoting the development and sale of electric vehicles. The essay does not aim primarily to explain the causes of the decision, but to assess the implications for democratic politics of the...

Die sich gegenwärtig in den modernen Gesellschaften abzeichnenden Umbruchprozesse werden in den Sozialwissenschaften aus sehr verschiedenen Perspektiven beschrieben, so etwa als Paradigmenkrise, als Krise der organisierten Moderne, als Krise des industrialisierten Sozialstaates oder als Verfall...

The field of organizational learning has developed dynamically but is not ready for closure. This article reviews the cultural contexts in which research on organizational learning has been conducted since the 1960s, and the intellectual traditions that underpin the field. It traces changes in...

The research project The Internet as a space for interaction, which completed its mission in Autumn 1998, studied the constitutive features of network culture and network organisation. Special emphasis was given to the dynamic interplay of technical and social conventions regarding both the...

In diesem discussion paper soll ein Einblick in jüngste Entwicklungen und in den gegenwärti-gen Stand der europäischen und nationalen rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen des deutschen Nahverkehrsmarktes gegeben werden. Diese formen die Ausgangslage bzw. Grenze für notwendige konzeptionelle...