The European Union is currently experiencing a kind of renaissance of selfemployment. As part of this trend, the share of self-employed workers who are operating their enterprises without the support of dependent employees is growing particularly evidently. Members of this category of...

"In the past decades self-employment has gained in importance in the majority of EU Member States. In particular the proportion of small and one-person businesses shows an increasing trend. In contrast to the classical research into business start-ups, which usually focuses on sustainability in...

In January 1995 Austria, Sweden, and Finland became member states of the European Union. All three countries have traditionally given comparatively high priority to environmental protection. This paper deals with the question of what influence the new members will have on environmental...

Informelle Diskurse haben Konjunktur: Runde Tische, Mediationsverfahren, partizipative Dialoge und Beratungsgremien aller Art begleiten die politische oder gesellschaftliche Entscheidungsfindung. Durch geordnete und faire Kommunikation sollen sachgerechte Entscheidungen ermöglicht werden....