Der gesellschaftliche Modernisierungsprozess (gesellschaftlicher Wandel) nimmt gegenwärtig weltweit an Intensität zu. Wesentliche Treiber sind technologische Entwicklungen, welche neue Produkte und Dienstleistungen erzeugen sowie Arbeitsverhältnisse, Kommunikation und Medienkonsum verändern...

This paper analyses budget-constrained, nonpoint source (NPS) pollution control with costly information acquisition and learning. To overcome the inherent ill-posed statistical problem in NPS pollution data the sequential entropy filter is applied to the sediment load management program for...

The issue of environment protection has gained in importance recently in connection with progressive environmental decay, which is caused by a steady economic development and exploitative natural resource management. Energetics is one of the industries, which have a damaging influence on the...

The paper aims to determine the role of the financial situation of production companies in the relationship between their environmental initiatives and their factors of competitiveness. The paper takes advantage of primary and secondary statistical data. The former were gathered using the...

Sustainable development becomes increasingly important in the design of development policies. The economic field, due to the businesses it involves, is regarded as a tool capable of generating social well-being by caring for resource conservation. The retailing is part of this process, playing...

Developing businesses in compliance with the principles of sustainability has been a tough challenge in our century. A planned, integrated and properly coordinated orientation towards environment protection, involvement in activities of society and local communities, supporting and streamlining...

Using a representative survey of German university students, we confirm that proclaimed support for environment protection policies depends on socio-cultural factors and political ideology. Unlike most related studies for other countries, we find that the environmental policy stance of German...

Using a representative survey of German university students, we confirm that proclaimed support for environment protection policies depends on socio-cultural factors and political ideology. Unlike most related studies for other countries, we find that the environmental policy stance of German...

We analyze the performance of various communication protocols in a generalization of the Crawford-Sobel (1982) model of cheap talk that allows for multiple receivers. We find that whenever the sender can communicate informatively with both receivers by sending private messages, she can...

In diesem Beitrag wird die Frage beleuchtet, inwieweit Personalrecruiter das Internet nutzen, um den persönlichen Hintergrund ihrer Bewerber auszuleuchten. Während das Thema in den Tagesmedien ausführlich erörtert wurde, beginnt die Forschung gerade erst, sich dafür zu interessieren. Mit...