englischHow do you set a counterpoint to capitalism? Community supported agriculture has developed coping strategies which enable it to bridge the contradictions between social and economic requirements. It can thus bind its members and make itself less dependent on competition and price pressure. [...]

englischSustainability has arrived on the financial market and in banks. The sustainability debate conveys a different form of procedural logic and different values and norms, towards which the banking industry, product development, communication with stakeholders or the banks’ own security deposit [...]

englischNever before has so much critical public attention been focused on credit ratings and credit rating agencies than in recent years. From a sociological perspective, this volume, now available in its second edition, endeavours to explain the crises which credit rating agencies contributed to [...]

englischThis book conducts a multidimensional study of the phenomenon of innovation transfer using the example of wikis based on Web 2.0 within a large and complex chemical pharmaceutical company. In this context, innovation transfer is understood to be a social and organisational process used for [...]

englischIn this study, the author demonstrates that a variety of uncertainties pervade markets, including those found in market economies, such as detrimental price competition, and uncertainty in market economy cooperation, such as that relating to the quality of products the market trades in. [...]

englischThere is now ample evidence of a rise in ‘non-standard work arrangements’ in many industrialised economies, yet only rarely does theoretical and empirical work probe the question of why the risk of temporary employment varies. Focusing on temporary employment, the author extends the scope of [...]

englischClassical economics has failed to adequately describe how markets function because equilibrium curves have never truly reflected the complex reality of economic activity. ”Competition and Society” therefore describes the process of competition as a sequence of ever-changing competitive [...]