Die UEFA EURO 2008TM wurde in Österreich und der Schweiz ausgerichtet. Um die die Auswirkungen des Mega-Events für Österreich ermitteln zu können, haben die Autoren empirische Daten mittels Fragebögen in zehn Sprachen erhoben. In Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, Salzburg und Wien wurden über 8.000...

Gerhard Raab, Alexander und Fritz Unger geben einen umfassenden Überblick über die Kernfragen der Marktpsychologie. Jedes Kapitel stellt eine Theorie vor, die dann anhand typischer Problemfelder aus dem Marktgeschehen illustriert wird. Die Anwendungsbeispiele stammen überwiegend aus dem...

This book examines key issues, challenges, opportunities and trends in innovation processes and supply chain management. It proposes ways for organizations to improve their performance by developing business strategies, establishing business innovation activities, and aligning business and...

This volume examines the theoretical and empirical landscape of social entrepreneurship in both non-profit and profit sectors. It extends the traditional view of social entrepreneurship to include the environmental and institutional factors that affect the emergence of social entrepreneurship...

This book examines business education from the perspective of the social sciences and humanities, specifically sociology and ethics. In particular, it offers the rare combination of liberal arts and business management education which is used to investigate how aspects of business education...

The micro-economic behaviour typical of humans is also found in other animals, suggesting that some basic biological features underpin the behaviour of many species, and that there are some problems with traditional micro-economic theory

This book presents an unorthodox identity economics that approaches social identity through a non-classical psychology. Garai applies the modern physics concept of wave-particle duality to economic psychology, finding a corresponding duality in object-oriented activity and historically generated...

Fast täglich kommen neue Hiobsbotschaften aus der Wirtschaft und vonseiten der Finanzmärkte. Aktien verlieren dramatisch an Wert, Banken brechen zusammen, Unternehmen aller Branchen bauen Mitarbeiter ab. Die aktuelle Finanzmarktkrise hat die größte und schwerwiegendste Rezession seit der...

This book is intended as a textbook for a course in behavioral economics for advanced undergraduate and graduate students who have already learned basic economics. The book will also be useful for introducing behavioral economics to researchers. Unlike some general audience books that discuss...

The term ‘wasta’ stems from the Arabic root for ‘middle’ or ‘medium' and describes the phenomenon of using ‘connections’ to find job, government services or other favors to circumvent bureaucracy or bypass the system as a whole. The effects of ‘wasta’ may be both positive or...