Sustainable development remains a formidable challenge for the societies of the 21st century. A number of concepts have been put forward on how to reach sustainability at a macro-economic level. These concepts are based on different points of view of economic, social and environmental systems...

The positive impact of a well organised reputation management has been sufficiently discussed in literature. It strikes that the majority of the studies is limited to the positive impact on major enterprises. It was found, that in particular, medium-sized companies with flat hierarchy structures...

Der Einsatz von Ethanol, erzeugt aus landwirtschaftlichen Grundstoffen, wird in vielen Ländern als vorrangige Form praktiziert, um fossile Kraftstoffe in einem gewissen Umfang zu substituieren. Dabei ist weltweit eine steigende Tendenz zu beobachten, und es entstehen durch den Aufbau eines...

An die Internetnutzung und besonders an die Entwicklung des elektronischen Geschäftsverkehrs zwischen Unternehmen - B2B e-Business oder kurz B2B - werden hohe Erwartungen gestellt. Sie sollen die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der Unternehmen durch sinkende Kosten, schnellere Information und erhöhte...

This study was prepared by Andreas Kuhlmann, while he was working with the Ifo Institute for Economic Research. It was completed in September 2006 and was accepted as a Ph.D. thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich. The subject of this study is the analysis of network...

This paper assesses the convergence in eco-efficiency of a group of 22 OECD countries over the period 1980–2008. In doing so, three air pollutants representing the impact on the environment of economic activities are considered, namely, carbon dioxide (<InlineEquation ID="IEq1"> <EquationSource Format="TEX">$${\text{ CO}}_{2}$$</EquationSource> </InlineEquation>), nitrogen oxides...</equationsource></inlineequation>

Recent discussions about the definition of growth in terms of welfare beyond GDP suggest that it is of urgent need to develop new approaches for measuring the economic performance of firms and national economies. The new concepts should simultaneously take into account economic as well as social...

The main purpose of this paper is to use data envelopment analysis (DEA) as a support tool to establish a relative eco-efficiency measure for the different bioethanol transportation modes and to prioritize these different modes according to these figures. From a review of previous studies, we...