This paper takes up the need to engage in substantial investments in the energy producing capital stock to attack the climate change problem, caused by rising carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere. However, the precise magnitudes of economic impacts of global warming as well as...

Label focused vertical distribution systems like Esprit, S.Oliver and Swarovski are based on integrated labeling, vertical supply chains and multiple distribution channels and formats of various kinds. These three core elements are systematically interlinked in the distribution system and...

This exploratory study is done to identify first assumptions for the use of video content in YouTube channels. A systematic process based on usage of video on-demand with perception, use and effect is used. The perception of video content can be viewed at several levels: the access, the design...

Electronic commerce in Germany is getting more and more popular as growing sales figures show. The missing possibility to touch and try products during the buying process is one of the big disadvantages of online shops. Integration of multimedia information is an apporach to a solution. By this,...

The concept of flexicurity has been at the heart of the labour market and social policies at the European level. The concept aims at achieving an appropriate balance between employment security and labour market flexibility on the labour markets in the European Union. This survey describes the...

The paper at hand illustrates the history and the current state of the media economics tradition in German-speaking countries. After describing early, inter- and transdisciplinary approaches in media economics the author will discuss boundaries of the market provision of media goods (“market...

We analyze the effects of low-skill workers offshoring on the welfare of the economy. In the context of a matching model with different possible equilibria, we discuss two policies that could potentially outweigh the negative welfare effects of offshoring, namely, an increase of the unemployment...

The following article focuses the communication between project sponsors and civil society in large-scale projects, mainly in terms of industry and infrastructure. First, the actors of civil society and public are discussed within the context of social theory by Jürgen Habermas. In this...

In non-food consumer goods branches of goods of medium and long term demand new business models are pushing through which are based on a simultaneous redesign of branding strategy, value chain and final retail distribution. The new vertical companies with brand focused distribution systems...

This paper starts with a brief summary on corporate foreign exchange risk management. The second chapter overviews the development of the Rouble-Euro exchange rate in the last decade. The fluctuations of this parity impact significantly the international competitiveness of German and Russian...