Wird über Nachhaltigkeit gesprochen, so stellt sich der Eindruck ein, es gehe um einen Begriff, den bestimmte Akteure benutzen, um mit ihm interessengeleitete Praktiken zu legitimieren. Der ironische Gehalt dieser rhetorischen Figur liegt in der Überschätzung des Begriffs der Nachhaltigkeit...

Quality is one of the main topics in current conceptual modelling research, as is the field of business process modelling. Yet, widely acknowledged academic contributions towards an understanding or measurement of business process model quality are limited at best. In this paper I argue that the...

Abstract: Purpose – Submitted in the form of a manifesto, this article seeks to make a call to scholars in international management and business studies to embrace post-colonial theory and to allow it to provide an interrogation of the ontological, epistemological, methodological and...

Die heißen Diskussionen über die Ergebnisse der PISA – (in aller Öffentlichkeit) und TIMSS – Studie (im Fachpublikum) sowie die verschiedenen Ansichten über Kultus – und Bildungspolitik im Rahmen der Föderalismusreform deuten auf einen großen Informationsbedarf hin. Dabei lassen auch...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to model the dynamic path of adjustment towards pre-unemployment levels of wellbeing for a group of full-time workers who experienced job loss. Design/methodology/approach – Based on data from the German Socio-economic Panel, a large-scale panel survey,...

According to set-point theories of subjective well-being, people react to events but then return to baseline levels of happiness and satisfaction over time. We tested this idea by examining reaction and adaptation to unemployment in a 15-year longitudinal study of more than 24,000 individuals...

In a globalised world economy, small and mediumsized companies (SMEs) are now entering the global software engineering (GSE) arena, but their involvement is more often opportunistic than carefully planned. Considered until a few years ago a major destination for outsourcing/offshoring, Ireland...

While there is considerable theoretical and empirical research in the marketing ethics literature, a major void exists in the examination and understanding of consumers' perceptions of unethical behavior.