Obgleich die produktionstheoretische Dienstleistungsforschung in den letzten Jahrzehnten erhebliche Fortschritte erzielt hat, existieren weiterhin einige ungelöste Probleme. Die vorliegende Arbeit greift drei zentrale Problemfelder der Produktionstheorie für Dienstleistungen auf und liefert...

Quality has never been more important for the future of higher education and the economy than it is today. Unfortunately, the decline in student quality is accompanied by costs that are out of control, a governance system that will not permit any reallocation of resources, and a society that...

In this paper a method is developed to derive prices for natural goods from information about material and energy flows within ecosystems. The derivation is based on an analogy between ecological and economic systems: both systems are characterized by flows of material and energy. To derive...