Decommissioning programmes have been used in many countries in an attempt to reduce the level of overexploitation in fisheries. The extent to which human capital enhancement may offset capacity reductions, however, has not been previously examined. The study uses a stochastic production frontier...

Die Dissertation thematisiert die Wirkung von Informationstechnologie in Organisationen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der motivationalen Aspekte der Organisationsmitglieder. Der theoretische Bezugsrahmen ist die Theorie der Strukturierung von Giddens und ihre Anwendung in der...

The ongoing financial and economic crisis (FEC) that started in 2007 already caused and still causes unprecedented damage for the economy worldwide. Its reasons and consequences illustrate the complex and dynamic environment in which companies act nowadays: Increasingly harmonized markets and...

The aim of this doctoral thesis is to look at the worldwide relevance of high-value patents granted in Germany between the enactment of the first nationwide German patent law in 1877 and 1932. This patent act enabled both, national and foreign patentees to reap the fruits of their intellectual...

For researchers studying the economic development of nations, the availability of human capital data is crucial. Economists making efforts to examine the impact of human resources on economic development before the end of World War II often face massive problems. Methods of collecting data,...

This Ph.D. dissertation studies innovation in Germany from 1877 to 1914. The German patents that had survived for at least ten years are used as a proxy of innovation. The introduction briefly outlines the issues to be investigated. The first chapter examines the successive waves of...