As part of this project every month we extrapolate and check the international leading indicators for the chemical industry that were developed for BASF AG. To be precise, these leading indicators refer to the…
Global competition gradually affects small companies and service providers and no longer only large corporations. The changes in production, organisation and decision structures pose particular challenges to the…
This empirical project deals with decision-making in the context of International Labour Conventions, the most binding instruments available to the International Labour Organization (ILO). Formulated in a complex…
While in the early nineties the long-term objective of preserving ecological viability featured at the center of public attention, this focus has currently shifted to the politically predominant concern with…
Renewable Energies face difficulties in establishing their market; the, as compared to the exploitation of conventional sources of energy, rather high cost associated with their generation pose a serious…
The project is supposed to significantly contribute to closing the scientific gap concerning the economic impacts of information technology (IT). These are still being discussed controversially, even though IT has…
In this project, we address some fundamental questions concerning the search for an analytical frame for the assessment of the contribution of nature to economical development and specifically the role of nature…