The relevance of sociological theory for explaining the recent dramatic changes in Eastern Europe is at hand. The impact of the downfall of communism has been compared with those Great Transformations along which sociology evolved as a science of crisis par excellence (Habermas). The actual...

Diese Studie beschaeftigt sich mit Verhaltensweisen, die Geschaeftspartner annehmen, wenn sie im Rahmen internationaler und interkultureller Partnerschaften mit Fremden kooperieren. Ausgehend von Theorien, welche die kulturellen Differenzen derartiger Partnerschaften als Probleme beschreiben,...

New Zealand pastoral soils have the potential to develop water-repellent conditions irrespective of regional climate and soil orders. The aim of this study was to improve the understanding of the temporal dynamics of soil water repellency (SWR), the mechanisms leading to this transient soil...

The article studies the evolution of the domestic U.S. airline industry from 1995 to 2009 using T-100 traffic data and DB1B fare data from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Unlike previous studies, a consistent split of the analysis in network carriers and low cost carriers is introduced....

The article studies the evolution of the domestic U.S. airline industry from 1995 to 2009 using T-100 traffic data and DB1B fare data from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Unlike previous studies, a consistent split of the analysis in network carriers and low cost carriers is introduced....

The present study aims at unraveling the acceptability and potential of flood insurance as a viable mechanism to cope the financial risk associated with flood events in rural Pakistan. Moreover, the factors influencing rural households’ willingness to pay for flood insurance are also analyzed....

The exact distributions of many functions of random vectors are derived in the literature mainly for the case of a Gaussian vector distribution or under the assumption that the vector follows a spherical or an elliptically contoured distribution. Numerous standard statistical applications are...