Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attractedinternational attention. In this paper demand analysis is used to try and uncoverthe factors which may be driving the emergence of these gender gaps.Drawing on household expenditure data from a poor (Sichuan) and rich...

Die traditionelle Beurteilung der Arbeitskräftepolitik der Bauunternehmenin Deutschland als facharbeiterzentriert kann seit dem Beginn der 1990erJahre nicht mehr generell aufrechterhalten werden. Insbesondere zweiSachverhalte belegen, dass die deutsche Bauwirtschaft inzwischen beachtlicheTeile...

This article reviews methods to the development of a decision support system (DSS) solution for small business owners/managers. The main objective of designing the DSS artefact is to support the strategic decision-making for achieving competitive advantages in the business-to-consumer (B2C)...

The requirements analysis is identified as the first step of a software project, a reality that is being neglected within Cameroonian companies. This study was carried out in the Centre Pasteur of Yaounde, Cameroon. It aims to compare the influence of both user participation (NPU) and...

When an organisation becomes aware that one of its products may pose a safety risk to customers, it must take appropriate action as soon as possible or it can be held liable. The ability to automatically trace potentially dangerous goods through the supply chain would thus help organisations...

Current science communication has a number of drawbacks and bottlenecks which have been subject of discussion lately: Among others, the rising number of published articles makes it nearly impossible to get a full overview of the state of the art in a certain field, or reproducibility is hampered...

Im Zuge der Digitalisierung von Arbeits- und Geschäftsprozessen ist es wichtig, Kompetenzanforderungen zukunftsbezogen und konkret zu ermitteln, um Entwicklungsbedarfe frühzeitig zu erkennen. Dieser Beitrag untersucht daher, wie zukünftige Kompetenzen zugleich prospektiv und prozessbezogen...

Privacy has been recognized as an important topic in the Internet for a long time, and technological developments in the area of privacy tools are ongoing. However, their focus was mainly on the individual. With the proliferation of social network sites, it has become more evident that the...