Zusammenfassung Die Krankenversicherungssysteme der EU-Mitgliedstaaten weisen eine unterschiedliche starke soziale Komponente auf. Wäre der Zugang zu einem derartigen System ohne Beschränkung möglich und könnten die Leistungen in der gesamten EU in Anspruch genommen werden, würde dies bei...

Zusammenfassung Die Ziele dieser Studie sind die Messung der Änderungen von Effizienz und Produktivität in der deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft. Damit wird eine wichtige Auswirkung der durch die Europäische Integration induzierten Deregulierung und Öffnung des deutschen Versicherungsmarkts...

Purpose – Corporate occupiers are among the important interest groups in the real estate business. The whole value network in the real estate sector, consisting of, e.g. developers, investors, and service providers depend on the occupier organizations and meeting their needs and preferences....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine what types of consumption values are taught at elementary schools in Mainland China, how these values are presented, and how these values relate to traditional Chinese cultural values. Design/methodology/approach – A content analysis of 72...

Purpose – Past consumer behavior researchers contend that there is a significant relationship between a consumer's religious affiliation and a number of consumption related variables. Based on Worthington et al. 's multi‐dimensional approach this paper aims to examine the concept of consumer...

Purpose – This paper aims to compare US and Korean consumers' intentions to purchase a high involvement, environmentally friendly product: the hybrid car. Design/methodology/approach – The paper examines how social factors and culture shape intentions to purchase a hybrid car using survey...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to look into Italian PR practitioners' opinions on whether or not specific social networks, the personalised networks of influence, are perceived to be one of the main strategic resources and the degree of relevance they give to such networks....

Purpose – This paper aims to demonstrate that aspects of a rational or functional character and aspects of an emotional and social nature condition the perceived value of the exchange relationships among firms in an industrial cluster. Design/methodology/approach: – The research uses...

Purpose – The British government takes equity issues formally into account in its appraisal of social projects and policies. However, evidence on which the measured distributional welfare weights are based is neither broad enough nor sufficiently reliable. This paper seeks to address these...

Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the personal values predominating in different academic areas to identify relations that may be of interest to university managers. Exploratory in nature, it seeks to understand how human values can be used to enhance the academic courses according to...