Social protection is emerging in Nepal as a key state instrument to reduce social exclusion and inequality by providing cash and social transfers to the most vulnerable households, targeting the socially excluded and challenging inter-generational poverty. In 2016-17, over 2.2 million persons in...

Three basic variants of the strategy for ensuring corporate security of an industrial enterprise ('survival', 'stabilization' and 'support') are proposed, the choice of one of which is associated with the results of assessing the level of corporate security. By applying the hierarchy analysis...

The principal purpose of the study is to determine the main parameters of corporate security development in the enterprise in the context of determining the level of impact of external and internal threats. The study uses survey methods on the main internal and external threats that may affect...

Das Konzept der Bioökonomie hat zunehmend an Bedeutung gewonnen. Die Transformation zur Bioökonomie stellt die nachhaltige Nutzung von Böden vor neue Herausforderungen. Gesellschaftliche Wahrnehmungen müssen verstärkt bei der Entwicklung von Transformationsstrategien berücksichtigt werden....

This paper studies corporate governance when a firm operates in imperfect markets. We derive firms' decisions from utility maximization by individuals. If those involved in decisions are also consumers, the usual monopoly distortion is reduced. Corporate governance can effect the equilibrium in...

Dieser Bericht untersucht das Potential von Big Data in und für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen (KMU). Dafür werden mittels einer Umfrage, Fokus-Interviews und zusätzlichen Recherchen die Potentiale und Herausforderungen bei Big Data untersucht, welche für KMU zu Tragen kommen. Der Begriff...

We propose a stylized model of a problem-solving organization whose internal communication structure is given by a fixed network. Problems arrive randomly anywhere in this network and must find their way to their respective "specialized solvers" by relying on local information alone. The...

Zu Beginn des Jahres 2009 geriet die Deutsche Bahn AG in eine datenschutzrechtliche Krisensituation. Als Konsequenz aus Verstößen gegen das Datenschutzrecht wurde eine Konzernbetriebsvereinbarung Beschäftigtendatenschutz entwickelt, verhandelt und abgeschlossen mit dem Ziel, einen...

The success of Google Maps suggests that free access to public sector information (PSI) contributes to a prosperous economy. While there has been considerable attention for legal and economical considerations concerning the implications of policies on public sector information (PSI), also...