Deutschlands Zukunftsfähigkeit ist im internationalen Vergleich erkennbar zurückgefallen. Zentrale Ursache ist die Schwäche des Private Equity Kapitalmarkts. Der Handlungsbedarf lässt sich klar definieren, diese Schwäche zu beseitigen. Es bedarf nur politischer Akteure, die sich diesen...

Der Beitrag zeigt das Potenzial und die Entwicklung der biologischen Vielfalt in den letzten Jahren auf.

Offensichtlich stellt die Klimaschutzproblematik eines der großen Politikfelder unserer Zeit dar. Ursächlich für den Anstieg der globalen Durchschnittstemperatur ist laut Klimaexperten ein anthropogener Anstieg der Treibhausgaskonzentration in der Atmosphäre. Die globale Klimaerwärmung...

Marine and coastal ecosystems - and thus the benefits they create for humans - are subject to increasing pressures and competing usages. For this reason, the European Union (EU) adopted the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), which is to guide future maritime policy in the EU and aims at...

Electronic services delivered over the Internet are gaining importance in the business world. Thisarea has seen an increase in scientific interest over the past years under the labels “Internet ofServices” and Web-service ecosystems. The paper develops a conceptual framework of actors...

Based on the observation of best practice and detailed case studies we observe thatcompanies have started to organise themselves in loosely coupled networks, similar to themediaeval ‘commons’, and which we call ecosystems. These are far less structured than jointventures, but have at the...

Market orientation relates to how well an organization is aligned towards identifying,disseminating and responding to market intelligence. Prior research has typicallyconceptualized and examined market orientation as a property of an individual firm orbusiness unit. Such research has shown that...