Die Durchdringung aller Arbeits- und Lebensbereiche mit Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologienführte in den letzten Jahren zur Prägung des Begriffes der Informationsgesellschaft. Nicht zu unrecht wurde dieser Begriff 1997 als Überschrift einer Initiative der Bundesregierung verwendet,...

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) as a means of enhancing sustainability has been the topic of a model project promoted by the EU during the late 1990s. Meanwhile, all member states areurged by an EU recommendation to develop national ICZM strategies, based on a set of criteria derived...

Die gebaute Umwelt repräsentiert immense kulturelle und wirtschaftlicheWerte. Der Marktwert der Schweizer Immobilien ohne Infrastrukturbautenübersteigt die Kapitalisierung der an der Schweizer Börse gehandelten Aktien und Obligationen bei weitem. Eine Analyse der Schweizer...

Storey (1994) reviews a number of socio-economic variables that have been widely hypothesised toimpact upon small business formation. These are:- population (change, density, age structure)unemployment, wealth, education, industrial structure, and public policy. These factors are consideredwith...

A new concept of mixing distributed real and virtual worlds through a unified human-machine interface will be introduced, some first realizations and a focus on resulting challenges of control-theory and modeling are presented...

Risk/return management has not only evolved as one of the key success factors for enterprisesespecially in the financial services industry, but is in the times of the economic crisis initiated by thefinancial markets crucial for the survival of a company. It demands powerful and at the same...

With this study we are the first to systematically compare todays two major counterparts as a source of accounting and financial data for researchers: Compustat North America by Standard & Poors and Worldscope by Thomson Financial. This investigation is conducted for U.S. and partly Canadian...

This paper investigates industry classification systems. During the last 50 yearsthere has been a considerable discussion of problems regarding the classification of economic data by industries. From my perspective, the central point of each classification is to determine a balance between...