[EN]Edition Sigma

englischThis special issue of Voluntaris further develops the discussions conducted at the first academic conference on developmental voluntary work, which took place at Cologne’s University of Applied Sciences (TH Köln) in September 2018 to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of the voluntary work [...]

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. [...]

englischIn order to calculate the unintended consequences of their policies, governments conduct comprehensive assessments of the impact of legislation. In doing so, they have independent regulatory oversight bodies monitor them on an increasingly frequent basis. However, in what ways do these [...]

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 [...]

englischTechnology assessment (TA) is committed to impartial expertise as well as basic democratic values. And beyond that? What is the normative framework within which TA operates? Is it always the same or does it differ depending on the topic, societal task or country and political culture? How [...]

englischThe economy of sharing is described as a phenomenon that has the potential to change markets and consumer behaviour permanently. In line with the basic principle of ‘sharing instead of owning’, sharing—according to the implicit assumption—could lead to better utilisation of hardly used goods [...]