Vorliegende Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der Betriebsform des Shopping-Centers, welches als räumliche Konzentration von Betrieben des Einzelhandels gesehen werden kann. Betrachtet werden dabei ausgewählte Center in Sao Paulo.

...Angesichts der Tatsache, dass die beiden "Autonationen" älter werden,liegt es auf der Hand zu untersuchen, vor welche Herausforderungen dieAlterung der Bevölkerung die Automobilindustrie stellt.

The paper presents empirical findings from two case studies in the German automobileindustry. The cases are used to discuss contemporary attempts by corporate management toimplement new governance and control practices within the firm. These attempts follow anew paradigm, or “Leitbild”, of...

Die Individualisierung auf der Nachfrage- und die Produktvielfalt auf der Anbieterseiteverbieten heute eine undifferenzierte Marktbearbeitung . Das Internet erlaubtzwar zunehmend einen völlig individualisierten Kundenkontakt . dennoch ist es inden meisten Märkten zweckmäßig, verschiedene...

Based on outcomes for residents and qualitative studies, it is widelythought that public services meet the needs of residents less well indeprived areas, and that this is due to both the demands placed onservices being greater and the services themselves being of a lowerquality. This paper looks...

This paper is an overview of the social welfare systems of five EastAsian countries, namely Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong andSingapore. It analyses the overall costs of welfare as well as incomedistribution aspects, based on both aggregate data and a programme-byprogrammereview of their...

Katharine Mumford reports on her first round of interviews with 100 familiesliving in two East London neighbourhoods. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families, and to uncover the significance of area conditions...

Over the last decades, empirical research on subjective well-being in the socialsciences has provided a major new stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness.Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported subjective wellbeingis often taken as a proxy measure for...

In many countries environmental policies and regulations are implemented to improveenvironmental quality and thus individuals’ well-being. However, how do individuals valuethe environment? In this paper, we review the Life Satisfaction Approach (LSA) representinga new non-market valuation...