[EN]Edition Sigma

englischChallenged by demographic and socio-economic structural change, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, a county in southern Thuringia, has been declared a shrinking region with all its consequential effects; nevertheless, it stands for resilience and self-assertion. The polarities to be found there make the [...]

englischThis book answers the questions of what good leadership and work mean in terms of socio-digital transformation, how a socio-technical understanding of organisation can be fruitful for leadership, and what significance interactional competence gains in this context or how it can be developed. [...]

englischSince 2001 the Federal Ministry of Research and Education (BMBF) and the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD) have provided support for German universities in order for them to establish transnational education abroad. Recently, bilateral universities came into being, among them the [...]

englischGood legislation and good administrative action are of great importance for the social acceptance of politics and administration. Unfortunately, however, they are often unclear, bureaucratic and poorly tailored to the needs of citizens. How can the accessibility and addressability of [...]

Zeit- und Leistungsdruck ist das Schlüsselphänomen einer Arbeitswelt, die durch ein hohes Niveau an psychischen Anforderungen gekennzeichnet ist: Für mehr als die Hälfte aller Beschäftigten gehört Zeit- und Leistungsdruck zum Alltag – und besonders betroffen scheinen (hoch-)qualifizierte [...]

englischWhat role did experience play in economics between 1871 and 1919?

This book shows how economic actors in the formative phase of the discipline organised, researched, discussed and communicated experience, in short: how they practised experience.

Drawing on Ludwik Fleck's analysis of [...]

englischDigital government enhances and transforms knowledge needed for public agency, including the provision of a wide range of public services. Elaborating, storing and communicating this knowledge requires harnessing and combining human information processing and knowledge that is stored and [...]

Im Jahr 1975 wurde der Kooperationsvertrag zwischen der Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) und der IG Metall (IGM) geschlossen, aus dem vier Jahre später die Gemeinsame Arbeitsstelle RUB/IGM hervorging. 40 Jahre später diskutieren namhafte Beteiligte, Gewerkschafter und Wissenschaftler in diesem Band, [...]

englischFor a long time, the transformation of our work-oriented society has resulted in changes to the structural composition of its workforce. Consequently, the typical milieu of industrial workers, with its traditionally high levels of organisation, has lost significance in comparison to those of [...]

Mit dem Wandel der Arbeitsgesellschaft ist seit langem auch eine Veränderung in der strukturellen Zusammensetzung der Belegschaften verbunden: Das klassische Industriearbeiter-Milieu mit traditionell hohem gewerkschaftlichem Organisationsgrad verliert an Boden, andere Erwerbsgruppen, bei denen die [...]

englischEvidence has become a key resource within our knowledge society. At the same time, during the course of the 20th century, negotiations on the validity of knowledge became a political and controversial phenomenon which has since shaped the multiple fields of science, technology, politics, [...]

englischThis anthology contains an interdisciplinary analysis of crisis phenomena and social challenges through historical comparisons and interdisciplinary reflection in order to causally understand the deeper dynamics of social and political processes as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. From [...]

englischWhat are the effects of territorial mergers in local government? What is the impact of such reforms on administrative capacity? Do they increase efficiency and result in economies of scale and scope? Do they worsen local democracy, participation and legitimacy? These questions are crucial [...]

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 [...]

englischBy analysing the state of affairs in companies and administrative bodies, this book devises the aims and demands of automatising state information requirements. Based on concepts of enterprise application integration and the business rules approach, it defines a software analysis pattern [...]

Wie werden Gender, Sexualität(en), Begehren und „race“ im Kontext internationaler Freiwilligendienste und besonders im deutschen Freiwilligendienst weltwärts normiert, verhandelt, begrenzt und eingeschlossen? Diesen bislang vernachlässigten Fragen geht Aljoscha* Sanja Bökle in diesem Band nach. [...]

englischGermans evaluate participation in decision-making processes in general as well as employee participation very positively. However, they know little about workplace and company level co-determination. Most attitude surveys presume that respondents know about the subject of the survey and that [...]

Der Erhalt der Biodiversität zählt neben dem Klimawandel zu den größten umweltpolitischen Aufgaben unserer Zeit. Denn eine intakte Natur sichert existenzielle Lebensgrundlagen – darunter gesunde Nahrung, sauberes Wasser oder fruchtbare Böden –, sie ist aber auch unerlässliche Ressource für viele [...]

Das von der Bundeskanzlerin ausgegebene Ziel, bis 2020 eine Million Elektroautos auf die Straßen zu bringen, erscheint aus Sicht vieler Fachleute kaum noch realisierbar. Woran liegt es, dass sich die Diffusion von Elektrofahrzeugen so langsam vollzieht? Warum sind sie nach wie vor ein [...]

englischThis study presents a systematic comparison between the inter-administrative structures and processes in ten international multilevel systems. Thus, the study provides insights into the relationships between administrators at different levels of governance. For this purpose, a top-down [...]

englischNational and international administrative actors interact via coordination processes that are often informal, in which they exercise power to accumulate critical resources or push their agendas. Supported by quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis techniques, this work [...]

englischIn the German-speaking world, Heinrich Reinermann is one of the most influential scholars in the domains of public information systems and public management. His scientific work in these fields, which he covered in an uncompromisingly practical spirit for almost half a century, testifies to [...]

englischIn which ways do knowledge production and economic value creation interact in natural product chemistry as various kinds of data and compounds are generated, analysed and circulated? And is there something new about those services offered by specialised actors? Based on an ethnographic case [...]

englischThe topic of resilience has received attention in the behavioural sciences since the 1950s. In particular, the Kauai Longitudinal Study by Emmy Werner was groundbreaking in terms of resilience research. In recent years, this research has also attracted the interest of the consumer sciences. [...]

englischConsumers can influence markets through their consumption behaviour—whether by consciously choosing or rejecting certain products and consumption patterns, or by loudly protesting, for example in demonstrations against climate change. But how far does the power of consumers extend? How [...]

englischIs "more Europe" needed to overcome the euro crisis? Under what conditions is a further harmonization of national policies within the European Economic and Monetary Union institutionally and socially feasible? Does the European crisis policy run contrary to the development of a European [...]