Suchergebnisse

Die Verfasser setzen sich mit der Frage auseinander, in wie weit es sich bei der internetbasierten Kundenintegration um eine soziale Innovation handelt. Dies geschieht auf Grundlage eigener empirischer Untersuchungen von 22 im Web 2.0 aktiven Unternehmen unterschiedlicher Größen und Branchen. Die Verfasser stellen zunächst die Web 2.0-basierten Instrumente zur Kundenintegration und damit verbundene Implikationen für die Unternehmen dar. Sie fragen im Folgenden, in wie weit es sich bei dieser Öffnung der Unternehmen in Richtung der User um eine distinktive Art sozialer Innovation handelt. Der Beitrag schließt mit einer Diskussion theoretischer Implikationen für das Konzept der sozialen Innovation. (ICE2)

Der Beitrag geht der Frage nach, wie es sich mit der Einsatzmotivation der Angehörigen des 22. deutschen ISAF-Kontingents verhält: In wie fern lassen sich hinsichtlich ihrer Motivation Teilgruppen unterscheiden? Welche Gründe äußern die Soldaten für ihre Teilnahme am Einsatz und wie stehen sie einer künftigen Einsatzteilnahme gegenüber? Unterscheidet sich die Motivation für den Einsatz am Hindukusch von anderen Bundeswehreinsätzen? Dazu werden ein einem ersten Schritt kurz die Begrifflichkeit geklärt und ein Überblick über die Theorie soldatischer Motivation gegeben, bevor im Anschluss die Ergebnisse der Studie ISAF 2010 vor dem Einsatz mit Befragungsergebnissen nach dem Einsatz konfrontiert werden, jeweils entlang der genannten Leitfragen. Die Ergebnisse werden mit denen früherer Studien des Sozialwissenschaftlichen Instituts der Bundeswehr sowie der internationalen Forschung verglichen. (ICE2)

"The author shows how regional and emerging powers such as Brazil and Germany strive to exercise leadership in international negations. By looking at negations within the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the founding of the G20 and both countries bids for permanent seats in the UN Security Council, the author explores in this article the necessary conditions for regional powers to gain followership in the international community. In concentrating on followership as a core condition for success and failure of emerging and regional power's leadership in global governance, he succeeds in developing a thoughtful methodology that facilitates analysing the exercise of power by middle and great powers." (author's abstract)

"The article starts with a general overview of the competing understandings of power in IR. The author argues that one can distinguish three power concepts: power-as-resources, relational and structural power. Combining the allegiance of middle powers and a relational understanding of power, the author proceeds and analyses Australia's allegiance as a case study in order to give an example for measuring a possible power shift between the United States and China. Whereas in economic terms Australia's relationship with China became muck more interdependent in the last decades, Canberra continues to strengthen its security ties with Washington, demonstrating the limited fungibility of power between power areas." (author's abstract)

"In this article the author tests whether the EU, which he defines as a trading power, has the ability to exert power and to influence the internal development (especially the promotion of democracy) of its trading partners from Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP states) by using the access to its internal market as a bargaining chip. The author assesses the European Impact an trade relations operationalized as trade openness by using a two-stage least squares model (2SLS) with panel data covering the years from 1991 to 2008. Thereby he provides evidence that the EU has considerable success in linking trade issues with issues of democracy promotion in the ACP states." (author's abstract)

"The author presents a case study of efforts to enhance the quality of teaching and learning at Kassel University. The study resulted from an extended internship - an internship of at least eight weeks' duration was an obligatory part of the MAHE Program - and examines the potentials and limitations of improving the teaching- and learning-based profile of Kassel University. The theoretical and conceptual part of the contribution discusses institutional profile-building of German universities and what it means in terms of potentials and limitations to establish a profile based on teaching and learning rather than research, global competitiveness or a high position on ranking scales. In addition, the heterogeneous disciplinary cultures (of the university?) are taken into account. The author identifies three factors that influence the decision for a profile based on excellence in teaching and learning: resources, heterogeneity of disciplinary cultures, and level of research. The author concludes that young, middle-sized universities like Kassel are often under pressure to excel in all functions (teaching, research, services), but there being considerable limitations to do this, a careful decision is needed on the function to focus in order to establish a profile if at all." (excerpt)

"The author presents a case study of efforts to enhance the quality of teaching and learning at Kassel University. The study resulted from an extended internship - an internship of at least eight weeks' duration was an obligatory part of the MAHE Program - and examines the potentials and limitations of improving the teaching- and learning-based profile of Kassel University. The theoretical and conceptual part of the contribution discusses institutional profile-building of German universities and what it means in terms of potentials and limitations to establish a profile based on teaching and learning rather than research, global competitiveness or a high position on ranking scales. In addition, the heterogeneous disciplinary cultures (of the university?) are taken into account. The author identifies three factors that influence the decision for a profile based on excellence in teaching and learning: resources, heterogeneity of disciplinary cultures, and level of research. The author concludes that young, middle-sized universities like Kassel are often under pressure to excel in all functions (teaching, research, services), but there being considerable limitations to do this, a careful decision is needed on the function to focus in order to establish a profile if at all." (excerpt).