The Chinese digital platform giants – Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent – have quickly risen to be amongst the most notable developers and users of artificial intelligence. One important catalyst for this development has been the so-called Platform Business Group (PBG) strategy used by Chinese...

In the German automobile industry the vertical integration, as an indicator of value added, is on average low. Beyond the argument of relative high labour costs for manufacturing, several specific reasons for the level of vertical integration, linked to the flexibility of business administration...

This Thesis looks at investors' loss tolerance with portfolios managed by a human advisor compared to an algorithm with different degrees of humanization. The main goal is to explore differences between these groups (Humanized Algorithm, Dehumanized Algorithm, Humanized Human and Dehumanized...

Aus der Einleitung: "Demographie, Digitalisierung und die Ökologisierung der Wirtschaft sind somit die zentralen Herausforderungen für Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in den kommenden Jahren. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich die Frage, in welchen Berufsfeldern diese Herausforderungen...

Europe trails the global frontier of productivity growth and the region's trend is sluggish. Much prospective economic growth for Europe is likely to come from AI and its adoption by European firms which is projected to shoot up the productivity trend. For such AI-generated growth to work, high...

Aus dem einleitenden Teil: "(...) Das vorrangige Ziel der vorliegenden Studie im Auftrag des AMS Österreich, Abt. Arbeitsmarktforschung und Berufsinformation (ABI), besteht darin, einen eingehenden Überblick zu den aktuellen Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf die Erwachsenen- und...