Each summer, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) hosts a selected group of graduate students, primarily doctoral, from around the world in its Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP). These students work closely with an IIASA senior scientist mentor on a project...

Topics: - The Environmental Context - Opportunity Recognition and Innovation - Modes of Organization - Resource Acquisition - Opportunity Exploitation - Performance Measurement, SROI etc, - Training, Education and Learning - Scaling and Franchising - Social Intrapreneurship - Bionic approaches -...

Social entrepreneurs create sustainable businesses providing social value by applying market based approaches. Entrepreneurial spirit like innovation, bricolage and effectuation are most common in social entrepreneurs and distinguish their enterprises from more managerial approaches found in...

Personalverantwortliche und Human Resource Manager sind im täglichen Arbeitsablauf mit vielfältigen Herausforderungen und Themen konfrontiert. Je nach den aktuellen geschäftlichen Tagesthemen bestimmen sie weitestgehend die Aufmerksamkeit der operationalen Personalarbeit. Speziell in den...

Theme and Background: The production and marketing of food takes place in an interdependent dynamic system, the food system, involving activities of - enterprises in chains and networks in agriculture, food processing, and retail and - consumers, media, and an institutional environment for...

Ester Boserup was one of the pioneers of an integrated theoretical approach to questions of development and sustainability. 2010 marks the centennial of her birth. The Ester Boserup Conference 2010 "Long-term trajectories in population, gender relations, land use, and the environment" wishes to...

Papers are invited primarily, but not exclusively, on the following topics: • the impact of globalization and economic situation on organizational change • organizational change and crisis management • competences needed in the change management process • the influence of culture on...

-KNOW 2010 brings together international researchers (in the English speaking scientific part) and practitioners (in the German speaking Praxisforum) from the fields of knowledge management and knowledge technologies. Opening and closing keynotes and a conference-wide exhibition complete the...

We plan to organize several sessions in the field of - Stochastic Processes, - Limit Theorems, - Financial Mathematics, - Combinatorial Analysis, - Theoretical and Applied Statistics, - Applications in Biology,Industry, Economics and Education of Statistics.

It is the objective of this Forum to provide an interdisciplinary and creative discussion environment that generatesnew ideas for innovative and multidisciplinary research.Its focus is on the analysis of the food system dynamics and interdependencies; the identification of drivers for...