Beim vierten Verbraucherforschungsforum an der Zeppelin Universität in Friedrichshafen entwickelten Wissenschaftler aus verschiedenen Disziplinen gemeinsam eine Agenda für die Verbraucherforschung in der digitalen Welt. Im Zeitgespräch dokumentieren wir die Impulsreferate zu wesentlichen...

This is an essay in postclassical theory and modelling, and more specifically an attempt to think about organisation and management. Our focus is on cognition and communication, not on objectivity or causality. We look for operations based on distinctions and their contexts, not for identities,...

There is no self-evident sociology of management. The cognitive focus of sociology seems to be at odds with the volitive aspects of management. The paper proposes to consider a possible approach, which consists in viewing management as the evolutionary mechanism of a social system, thus...

Following the economic theory of addiction the paper takes addiction not to be the exception to the rule but rather the paradigm of life. Unsteady equilibrium, adjacent complementarity, and hyperbolic discounting identified by economic theory as the conditions for addiction to develop are at the...

The article presents considerations on a recursive calculus of the economy. Economic decisions gain their self-reference from the fact that they contradict each other with regard to their decreasing marginal utility, opportunity costs, the postponement of satisfaction of needs and their own...