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Imaginary economies: the case of the 3D printer

Schröter, Jens - In: Review of Evolutionary Political Economy 1 (2020) 3, pp. 357-370

In the call for the special issue for the EAEPE Journal, we can find the word “scenario.” The question is if the authors can imagine scenarios in which “potential strategies for the appropriation of existing capitalist infrastructures […] in order to provoke the emergence of...

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New work: New motivation? A comprehensive literature review on the impact of workplace technologies

Schmid, Yvonne; Dowling, Michael - In: Management Review Quarterly 72 (2020) 1, pp. 59-86

The role of work and the characteristics of the workplace have changed greatly in recent decades. Today, new technologies enable an almost seamless interaction between machines and humans and allow teams in different countries and time zones to collaborate effectively. In this paper, we focus on...

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Cost estimate classification and accuracy for Major Industrial Plant Projects (MIPP) versus building construction in Germany

Erbe, Anita - 2014

similar situation. In the present paper, the cost estimation standards for Major Industrial Plant Projects (MIPP) are analyzed … and compared with the cost estimation standards for Building Construction (BC). The research method uses a literature and … standards review, comparing MIPP cost estimation guidelines by the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering (AACE …

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Assessing Technologies: Global Patterns of Trust and Distrust. Report on one session at the XVIII World Congress of Sociology

Moniz, António - In: Technikfolgenabschätzung – Theorie und Praxis 24 (2015) 1, pp. 119-121

Technology assessment (TA) had never been treated as a relevant topic within the International Sociological Association (ISA) before. The first steps towards establishing this association were taken in 1948, at the initiative of the Social Science Department of UNESCO. Its formal foundation was...

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Gondolatok a vidékfejlesztési programok értékeléséről: Társasalmi tanulás a LEADER programban

Nemes, Gusztáv; High, Christoher - 2009

considers alternative strategies for evaluation, contrasting LEADER practice with participatory evaluation methodologies in the …

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Environmental Governance in Hungary - Rural Development Policies and Social Learning during the Implementation of EU Agri-Environmental Policies - A Case Study

Nemes, Gusztáv - 2010

The Rural Development Regulation (RDR) within the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), as an exemplary manifestation of the New Rural Development Paradigm, has achieved significant results. Nevertheless, it has increasingly become liable to institutional complexity and central control in an...

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The ordonomic approach to business ethics

Pies, Ingo - 2017

'Ordonomics' is a research program that has been developed at the Chair of Economic Ethics at Martin Luther University …', and that business ethics can be based on a specific rational-choice analysis that is fully in line with the established … tradition of economic thinking. With regard to practice, the main point is that ordonomics offers a guiding concept for creating …

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Alternativen als Programm: Plädoyer für einen Perspektivenwechsel in der Technikfolgenabschätzung

Dobroć, Paulina; Krings, Bettina-Johanna; Schneider, … - In: TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in … 27 (2018) 1, pp. 28-33

Der vorliegende Artikel soll einen Beitrag zu theoretischen Überlegungen einer Technikfolgenabschätzung (TA) der Alternativen leisten. Ausgehend von der Annahme, dass TA seit ihrer Entstehung den Anspruch auf die Entwicklung von (technischen) Alternativen erhoben hat, wird hier der Versuch...

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The Right Price of Food: Reflections on the Political Economy of Policy Analysis and Communication

Swinnen, Johan F.M. - 2010

Only a few years ago the widely shared view was that low food prices were a curse to developing countries and the poor. The dramatic increase of food prices in 2006-2008 appears to have fundamentally altered this view. The vast majority of analyses and reports in 2008 and 2009 state that high...

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Detecting Hidden Violence: The Spatial Distribution of Excess Mortality in Rwanda

Verpoorten, Marijke - 2010

Rwanda experienced several firms of internal violence, including civil war,genocide, reprisal killings and (counter-)insurgency. While these events all occurred in 1990-1998, their geographic location within Rwanda differred, with the genocide especially severe in the South of the country, the...

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