The paper addresses the issue of rethinking the welfare state as a part of a broader national system of social protection (NSSP) and a mode of societal regulation. In order to overcome the theoretical limits of bottom-up comparative analysis of welfare states, one builds a structural model of...

This study was prepared by Nina Czernich while she was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research.It was completed in December 2010 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. The study addresses the question whether the emergence of...

In this article, the author inverses the traditional approach (does corporate governance favour innovation?) considering how innovation influences corporate governance in the European telecommunication sector.

While mobile data services in Europe have failed to trigger fresh growth in the mobile telecommunications market to-date, Japan and Korea are now considered the "champions" of mobile multimedia services. Through identification and analysis of success factors in these two countries, this paper...

Previous studies found the introduction of the today well established media radio and television to affect political participation. This paper evaluates the effect of the relatively recent introduction of a new medium, broadband internet. OLS resultssuggest a positive association between DSL...

This doctoral research defines and explores the first memorable encounter between a consumer and a brand. The present research relies on two theoretical roots: multidisciplinary research works about the first encounter, as well as research from the consumer-brand relationship paradigm. Then,...

This thesis investigates the nature and the objectives of investment prudential regulations in insurance business and its role in asset allocation by insurers. The thesis is divided into the following three parts. Part one explains the importance of insurance sector for savings¤ allocation and...

The development in Islam is sustainable and stipulates the meeting between capitals and knowledge through the moudaraba formula that gave birth to the current IF!. The Islamic Private Equity Funds are, theoretically, the solution for the failure of the IF1 in the development processes. The...