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Environmental sustainability creates both tremendous business opportunities and formidable threats to established companies across virtually all industry sectors. Yet many companies tackle the issue in a superficial or passive way through increased environmental reporting, the use of “greenspeak” in their corporate communication activities or isolated efforts to create green products or reduce pollution. In contrast, there are a small but increasing number of firms that employ a holistic approach to sustainability and consider fundamental changes to their existing business models. By ignoring the opportunities of Green Business Model Transformations, companies exclude themselves from a large variety of potential means to create economic value. In addition to ordinary product and process innovations, they can change “the rules of the game” within an industry towards environmental sustainability. This can facilitate the commercialisation of new green products that would not be competitive otherwise targeting new customer segments with previously unmet needs improved economics of value creation by developing a green architecture of the firm and its business network Green Business Model Transformations, however, are challenging ventures in many respects: Firstly, it is difficult to develop and accurately assess the prospects of new, green business models due to uncertainties and inherent complex systemic characteristics. It can therefore be very challenging for individual managers of established companies to question the status quo and seize new, green opportunities. The implementation of Green Business Model Transformations therefore requires strong change capabilities: The stakes are high, many otherwise disconnected parts of the organisation are involved, and the subject matter is complex in nature. As a result, there is a great need for guidance in management practice that current research does not address. This publication aims to fill this gap with a general approach to Managing Green Business Model Transformations by defining a process to evaluate green business models and providing a methodology for their realisation.
Business planning. --- Engineering economy. --- Industrial management. --- Management -- Environmental aspects. --- Manufacturing processes -- Environmental aspects. --- Strategic planning -- Environmental aspects. --- Management --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Business & Economics --- Civil Engineering --- Management Theory --- Environmental aspects --- Business enterprises --- Green products. --- Environmental aspects. --- Earth-friendly products --- Environmentally safe products --- Engineering. --- Management. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Engineering economics. --- Sustainable development. --- Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Sustainable Development. --- Commercial products --- Green marketing --- Recycled products --- Organisation --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Economy, Engineering --- Engineering economics --- Industrial engineering --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Executive ability --- Business administration --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Business --- Industrial organization
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This book analyzes the consequences that would arise if Germany’s means-tested unemployment benefits were replaced with an unconditional basic income. The basic income scheme introduced is based on a negative income tax and calibrated to be both financially feasible and compatible with current constitutional legislation. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) the author examines the impact of the reform on the household labor supply as well as on both poverty and inequality measures. It is shown that by applying reasonable values for both the basic income and the implied marginal tax rate imposed on earned incomes, efficiency gains can be reconciled with generally accepted value statements. Furthermore, as the proposal includes a universal basic income for families, child poverty could be reduced considerably. The estimates are based on the discrete choice approach to labor supply.
Microeconomics. --- Public finance. --- Social policy. --- Labor economics. --- Economics. --- Social Policy. --- Labor Economics. --- Public Economics. --- Income distribution --- Income --- Labor supply --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Currency question --- Price theory --- Economics --- National planning --- State planning --- Economic policy --- Family policy --- Social history --- Public finances
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Without professional project management, successful execution of major projects is no longer conceivable today. Very practice-oriented, and building on more than 35 years of innovation in the field of project management, this book outlines profiles of the most important market participants, the essential contents of the planning and construction process as well as the tasks of the project manager, his or her methods and tools. Particularly, the obligation of the project manager is pointed out when it comes to carrying out the process of project execution in a transparent and effective manner in order to guarantee, together with the other project participants involved, the maximum degree of usefulness, design, sustainability and profitability at specified costs and deadlines. The book addresses project managers, project developers and construction experts but also to the responsible representatives of the clients and investors who have recognized that sustainable and economical design are going to be the topics of the future in the building and property industries.
Construction industry -- Management. --- Construction industry. --- Project management. --- Construction industry --- Project management --- Industries --- Management Styles & Communication --- Civil Engineering --- Civil & Environmental Engineering --- Management --- Business & Economics --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Management. --- Drees + Sommer. --- Industrial project management --- Building industry --- Home building industry --- Drees und Sommer --- Drees, Kuhne und Sommer --- Engineering. --- Organization. --- Planning. --- Construction. --- Building --- Construction superintendence. --- Construction Management. --- Basics of Construction. --- Superintendence.
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Private equity experienced dramatic fluctuations in investment activity in line with the turbulences of financial markets in recent years. Claudia Sommer develops a theoretical framework of factors driving private equity investment activity and the resulting performance implications. Using a data set of more than 40,000 European transactions, she applies a variety of econometrical approaches and shows how neoclassical aspects, information asymmetries, agency conflicts, and market timing contribute to the dynamics in the private equity market. In a performance analysis of more than 1,300 European funds she reveals the resulting performance implications.
Economics. --- Investments. --- Private equity. --- Private equity --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Investment & Speculation --- Finance - General --- Banking --- Equity, Private --- Finance. --- Finance, general. --- Investments --- Funding --- Funds --- Economics --- Currency question
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Global warming interacts in multiple ways with ecological and social systems in Northern America. While the US and Canada belong to the world’s largest per capita emitters of greenhouse gases, the Arctic north of the continent as well as the Deep South are already affected by a changing climate. In Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America academics from various fields such as anthropology, art history, educational studies, cultural studies, environmental science, history, political science, and sociology explore society–nature interactions in – culturally as well as ecologically – one of the most diverse regions of the world. Contributors include: Omer Aijazi, Roland Benedikter, Maxwell T. Boykoff, Eugene Cordero, Martin David, Demetrius Eudell, Michael K. Goodman, Frederic Hanusch, Naotaka Hayashi, Jürgen Heinrichs, Grit Martinez, Antonia Mehnert, Angela G. Mertig, Michael J. Paolisso, Eleonora Rohland, Karin Schürmann, Bernd Sommer, Kenneth M. Sylvester, Anne Marie Todd, Richard Tucker, and Sam White.
Climate and civilization. --- Climatic changes / social aspects / north america. --- Climatic changes --- Gesellschaft. --- Global warming / social aspects / north america. --- Global warming --- History / americas (north, central, south, west indies). --- History / north america. --- Human beings / effect of climate on. --- Human beings --- Klimaänderung. --- Massenmedien. --- Science / earth sciences / meteorology & climatology. --- Social science / general. --- Umwelt. --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Effect of climate on. --- Nordamerika. --- North America. --- Climatology --- Acclimatization --- Medical climatology --- Changes, Climatic --- Changes in climate --- Climate change --- Climate change science --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Warming, Global --- Global temperature changes --- Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric --- Climatic factors --- Environmental aspects --- Environmental protection --- Environmental policy --- Environmental policy. --- Canada. --- United States. --- Environment and state --- Environmental control --- Environmental management --- Environmental quality --- State and environment --- Environmental auditing --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Political aspects --- Government policy --- AB --- ABSh --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- America (Republic) --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- Amerika (Republic) --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi͡avks Shtattn --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Amirika Carékat --- AQSh --- Ar. ha-B. --- Arhab --- Artsot ha-Berit --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Bí-kok --- Ē.P.A. --- EE.UU. --- Egyesült Államok --- ĒPA --- Estados Unidos --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- Estados Unidos de América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- Forente stater --- FS --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Istadus Unidus --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Mei guo --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mî-koet --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miguk --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- S.U.A. --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērik --- SASht --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Si͡evero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si͡evernoĭ Ameriki --- Spojené staty americk --- SShA --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheirice --- Stany Zjednoczone --- Stati Uniti --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Stâts Unîts --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- SUA --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- U.S. --- U.S.A. --- United States of America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- US --- USA --- Usono --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- Verenigde Staten --- VS --- VSA --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígí --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Yhdysvallat --- Yunaeted Stet --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- Zʹi͡ednani Derz͡havy Ameryky --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Zluchanyi͡a Shtaty Ameryki --- Zlucheni Derz͡havy --- ZSA --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canad --- Dominion of Canada --- Kʻaenada --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanak --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canad --- Yn Chanadey --- Jianada --- Global environmental change --- The environment --- Social impact of environmental issues
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In her explorative study that is based on data from 62 qualitative interviews, Elena Sommer examines the use of social capital for entrepreneurial activities of self-employed migrants from the former Soviet Union in Germany. She analyses what type of social capital is used by migrants as a resource for the formation and development of small businesses and how entrepreneurial social networks of migrants change over time. The study illustrates that the use of business-related social relationships of the interviewed self-employed depends on the company's market strategy as well as on access to relevant social networks. Contents • Migrant Self-Employment and Social Embeddedness • Social and Labour Market Integration of Migrants from the Former Soviet Union in Germany • Russian-Speaking Migrant Market • Mixed Market and Mainstream Market Businesses • Transnational Entrepreneurial Activities Target Groups • Researchers and students in the fields of social sciences, sociology, geography, migration research and economics • Practitioners in integration work, business promotion and start-up consulting The Author Elena Sommer is a researcher and a member of the Operations Team of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE ERIC) at the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy. Her research interests include migration and integration research, social capital and social networks, cross-national survey methodology, and intergenerational family relationships.
Infrastructure (Economics) --- Capital, Social (Economics) --- Economic infrastructure --- Social capital (Economics) --- Social infrastructure --- Social overhead capital --- Economic development --- Human settlements --- Public goods --- Public works --- Capital --- Emigration and immigration. --- Economic sociology. --- Migration. --- Organizational Studies, Economic Sociology. --- Economic sociology --- Economics --- Socio-economics --- Socioeconomics --- Sociology of economics --- Sociology --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Social aspects
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World Health --- International Cooperation --- Epidemiology --- Diseases --- Public health --- Cooperation, International --- Global governance --- Institutions, International --- Interdependence of nations --- International institutions --- World order --- Cooperation --- International relations --- International organization --- Global health --- International health --- Medical geography --- International cooperation --- Sommer, Alfred, --- World health.
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National consolidation and romantic novels go hand in hand in Latin America. Foundational Fictions shows how 19th century patriotism and heterosexual passion historically depend on one another to engender productive citizens.
Latin American fiction --- -Literature and society --- -Nationalism in literature --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Latin American literature --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- Literature and society --- Nationalism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- LATIN AMERICAN FICTION --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Latin American Fiction --- Literary Criticism --- Latin american fiction --- Literary criticism --- Nationalism in literature --- 19th century. --- Latin America.
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In ‘De kleine Tocqueville’ geeft Martin Sommer in nog geen honderd pagina’s een heldere samenvatting van het leven, de carrière en de werken van de Franse edelman Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859). Tocqueville wordt wel gezien als de man die het meest uitputtend, origineel en leesbaar over de democratie als politiek systeem heeft geschreven. Zijn magnum opus is getiteld Over de democratie in Amerika (twee delen, 1835-1840) en blijft ruim anderhalve eeuw later een aanrader. Tocqueville was ook zelf politicus, maar zijn actuele erfenis bestaat uit ideeën over de moderne democratie, haar sterke én haar zwakke kanten.
democratie --- 32 --- Tocqueville, de, Alexis --- politiek
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