Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Bangladesh have been growing for the preceding two decades in various ways. Even though these enterprises exert an important effect on the national economy of the country, they face certain challenges and suffer in quite a manner. To reduce the...

Turnaround process involved many approaches of strategic and tactical attempts. However, such knowledge are difficult to identified since many previous studies only focused on what constitute successful turnaround, and limited to the use of financial data. As turnaround is a transformational...

Autobiografien sind ein traditionsreiches und auch prominentes Format öffentlicher Selbstthematisierung, Selbstdarstellung und -inszenierung. Für die soziologische Forschung sind Autobiografien ein attraktiver Gegenstand, weil wir darüber immer auch etwas über eine jeweilige Gesellschaft,...

This paper looks at the information content of satisfaction scores. It is argued that the information content depends on the extent to which people adapt to living conditions in general. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the estimation of a dynamic panel data model...

The aim of the present paper is twofold. We first give an overview of the multi-faceted construct of career success with its 'objective' (real attainments) and 'subjective' (perceived attainments) components and with the different methodologies measuring them ('subjectivist' vs. 'objectivist'...

This article analyses dealer satisfaction data in the agricultural technology market in Germany. The dealers could rate their suppliers in the ?overall satisfaction? and in 38 questions which can be summarized in 8 dimensions. An ordinal regression model which is also known as the proportional...

Ziel dieser Handreichung ist es, grundsätzliche Einstiegsfragen zum Thema Öffnen und Teilen von qualitativen Forschungsdaten zu beantworten. Dabei verstehen wir unter Öffnen und Teilen die Zugänglichmachung zur Sekundärnutzung für andere Forschende. In dieser Handreichung werden wir auf...

The evaluation of scientific output has a key role in the allocation of research funds and academic positions. Decisions are often based on quality indicators for academic journals and over the years a handful of scoring methods have been proposed for this purpose. Discussing the most prominent...