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Konzepte und Wirkungen nachhaltigen Unternehmertums
Maaß, Frank; Chlosta, Simone; Icks, Annette; Welter, … - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn - 2014
Betriebliches Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement zielt auf einen verantwortungsvollen Umgang mit Ressourcen und auf die entsprechende Gestaltung der innerbetrieblichen Abläufe ab. Dabei nutzen Unternehmen, die nachhaltiges Wirtschaften mit strategischen Zielen verbinden und hierbei über das gesetzlich...
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Environmental Protection of Foreign Firms in Germany: Does the country of origin matter?
Geluebcke, John P. Weche; Wedl, Isabella - 2013
Only recently have the aspects of pollution and environmental protection entered into the empirical literature about international firm activities. The present paper is the first firm-level study on the link between foreign ownership and environmental protection in Germany. We find that, ceteris...
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Sustainable Civil-Society Engagement: Potentials of a Transnational Civil Society in French-German, Polish-German, and Czech-German Border Regions
Boehnke, Klaus; Rippl, Susanne; Fuss, Daniel - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 4, pp. 4078-4099
Based on representative survey data, the present study examines potentials for the sustainable development of a transnational civil society in French-German, Polish-German, and Czech-German border regions. The theoretical framework is a social capital approach in the tradition of Putnam....
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Land-Development Offset Policies in the Quest for Sustainability: What Can China Learn from Germany?
Tan, Rong; Wang, Rongyu; Sedlin, Thomas - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 6, pp. 3400-3430
Land-development offset policies consist of measures that require compensation to be made for the negative impact of land development on agricultural production, ecological and environmental conservation, and the sustainability of economic and social development. However, when such policies are...
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Regional Open Innovation Roadmapping: A New Framework for Innovation-Based Regional Development
Schwerdtner, Wim; Siebert, Rosemarie; Busse, Maria; … - In: Sustainability 7 (2015) 3, pp. 2301-2321
innovations and their market introduction, companies have increasingly used technology roadmapping and open innovation. The … led to the rise of the “Regional Open Innovation Roadmapping” framework for innovation-based regional development (ROIR …). This framework was tested by conducting two innovation roadmapping processes in the model region of Märkisch-Oderland (MOL …
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Unraveling the Skilled Mobility for Sustainable Development Mantra: An Analysis of China-EU Academic Mobility
Leung, Maggi W.H. - In: Sustainability 5 (2013) 6, pp. 2644-2663
In the name of sustainable development, skilled persons including scholars, researchers and students have become incorporated in the “sustainable development” visions and strategies of institutions, city centers and nation-states near and far from where these potentially mobile brains are....
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Involving Corporate Functions: Who Contributes to Sustainable Development?
Schaltegger, Stefan; Harms, Dorli; Windolph, Sarah Elena; … - In: Sustainability 6 (2014) 5, pp. 3064-3085
A large body of literature claims that corporate sustainable development is a cross-functional challenge, which requires all functional units to be involved. However, it remains uncertain to what extent and in which way different corporate functions are actually involved in corporate...
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Corporate Governance in Germany: An Economic Perspective
Schmidt, Reinhard H. - Center for Financial Studies - 2003
A financial system can only perform its function of channelling funds from savers to investors if it offers sufficient assurance to the providers of the funds that they will reap the rewards which have been promised to them. To the extent that this assurance is not provided by contracts alone,...
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A Comparison of the Financial Characteristics of U.S. and German Manufacturing Firms
Folkinshteyn, Daniel; Uygur, Ozge; Meric, Gulser - In: The International Journal of Business and Finance Research 8 (2014) 5, pp. 9-22
The U.S. and Germany rank #1 and #3, respectively, in the world, in terms of the total amount of international trade. U.S. and German firms compete with one another for a larger market share in other countries and in each other’s local markets. And yet, there are no published studies that...
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