englischIn this book, Martin Holler analyses the influence of impact expectations on business models with the help of an output–outcome–impact approach using the example of vocational training centres. In doing so, he succeeds in taking an allround view that is relevant to both research and [...]

englischNew technologies are usually transferred into the music industry from outside and radically change the way of doing business. An optimal implementation of disruptive change processes hardly succeeds. The transfomation of current working processes and structures is imminent: the lack of [...]

englischRetail has always been subject to change. The proverb "trade is change" makes the dynamics clear. The structural change caused by changing political, economic, and technological changes combined with changing consumer behaviour does not leave the retail sector unscathed. But what can the [...]

englischIf you want to transform diversity into innovation, you have to uncover unconscious biases and stereotypes. The fact is, unconscious bias is omnipresent and creates mental shortcuts in information processing. The author shows that the so-called unconscious bias inhibits development in [...]

englischTheoretical economics is the foundation of political economics. Its meaning lies in the area between private exchange and public coercion. In summary: control of individual behavior by coercion or control by free bargaining. It is, basically, a problem of rhetoric’s, not of science. To [...]

englischIn the academic literature communication is repeatedly described as a success factor for change management processes. However, the question how communication works best and should be designed in the phases of change usually remains unanswered.

Along the phases "unfreeze", "move" and "freeze" [...]