This textbook presents an overview of how the activities of an organisation can be managed to satisfy the needs of stakeholders through the cost effective, operationally efficient and sustainable transformation of resources into outputs. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the authors show the...

The natural environment provides crucial inputs and services for economic development, but its role for productivity growth is insufficiently explored. Environmental scarcities can pose a drag on productivity growth and a risk for its sustainability. At the same time productivity growth is often...

Executive Summary -- 1 Einleitung -- 1.1 Ziel der Arbeit -- 1.2 Vorgehensweise und Aufbau der Arbeit -- 1.3 Deutschsprachiger Raum -- 2 Problembeschreibung -- 2.1 Ist-Situation und Notwendigkeit der Effizienten und Zielgerichteten Steuerung von Lehre und Forschung im Bildungs- und...