The essay deals with the issue of urban circularity understood as a subset of the Circular Economy paradigm, highlighting potential and limits of an emerging new model spreading on a global scale. The critical reasoning starts from a very recent production of institutional documents and the...

In dem vorliegenden Beitrag wurde ein auf Künstliche Intelligenz gestütztes Kon- zept zur Bewertung und Optimierung der Transportplanungsqualität für die Stahl- und Metalllogistik ausgearbeitet und seine Praktikabilität mithilfe methodischer Untersuchungen nachgewiesen. Somit soll die...

How can people with different knowledge and experience use process models in the digital communication and at the same time how can they receive system support through the described processes? This question is solved by a mutual transformation based on natural language which is illustrated with...

Politicians and trade unions raise the issue of illegal employment in order to provoke support, voters feel negatively touched by the presence of illegal employment, often also associated with illegal immigration. In addition there was a severe discussion in Germany about passing a minimum wage...

With the purpose to reduce winter unemployment and to promote all-season employment in the constructions sector, Germany maintains an extensive bad weather allowance system. Since the mid 1990s, these regulations have been subject to several reforms that resemble the range of approaches for...

Bei anhaltendem Aufschwung der Weltwirtschaft beschleunigt sich die konjunkturelle Erholung in Deutschland. Für 2006 sagen Konjunkturforscher ein Wachstum von 1,4% voraus, nach 0,8% in diesem Jahr. Wie schätzt die Industrie ihre Aussichten für 2006 ein?

Die Expansion der Weltwirtschaft wird auch 2007 anhalten. Davon und von der anziehenden Binnenkonjunktur wird die deutsche Wirtschaft profitieren. Allerdings werden die Prognosen für 2007 durch die Mehrwertsteuererhöhung erschwert. Die Konjunkturforscher gehen für 2007 von einem Wachstum von...

This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...

The focus of the present study is the management practice of disclosing disaggregated (financial) information in a company's annual report. In this study, a sample of 232 Slovenian unlisted companies has been examined. The results show that less than a quarter of the companies disclose...