Die Zielstellung einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung erfordert die Berücksichtigung verschiedener Besonderheiten bei der Entscheidungsfindung. Eine wesentliche Anforderung ist hierbei die Integration mehrerer Ziele bzw. Entscheidungskriterien. Für die Unterstützung komplexer Entscheidungen stehen...

This paper revises the traditional view of Spain as a predatorycolonial state that extracted revenue from natural resources andpopulations in the Americas while offering little in return. Using 18thcentury Spanish American treasury accounts we show that localelites not only exerted important...

We discuss political economy mechanisms which can explain the resource curse,in which an increase in the size of resource rents causes a decrease in the economy’stotal value added. We identify a number of channels through which resource rentswill alter the incentives of a political leader....

This article discusses how the theoretical perspective of ordonomics provides a frameworkfor better understanding and advancing the practice of social entrepreneurship.From an ordonomic perspective, the concept of social entrepreneurship offers a semanticinnovation (at the ideas level) whose...

The purpose of this article is to develop an ordonomic conceptualization of corporate citizenshipand new governance that (a) provides a framework for positively explaining thepolitical participation of companies in new governance processes and (b) does not weakenbut instead strengthens the...

Nachhaltigkeit im Bau- und Immobilienwesen geniesst schon seit einigen Jahren eine erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit, sowohl in der Fachwelt wie auch allgemein in der Gesellschaft. Dabei nimmt vor allem der Stellenwert des energetischen Ressourcenverbrauchs bei der Erstellung und dem Betrieb von Gebäuden...

This presentation is dedicated to those entrepreneurs and decision makers, who strive or a better life quality for human beings, with a positive search of longer term guarantees to all kinds of lives, with quality emphasis on efficient, effective and equitable processes, for all present and...

The purpose of this article is to develop an ordonomic conceptualization of corporate citizenshipand new governance that (a) provides a framework for positively explaining thepolitical participation of companies in new governance processes and (b) does not weakenbut instead strengthens the...