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In this book Markus Bodemann bridges the differences between public and private sector in aspects of management, especially risk management. A survey to draw a line between both sectors describes the current status of applied management tools and their effects. To cope with future developments, or at least to be prepared, risk management could be one tool. By using the yearly status reports the author works out the bandwidth of the impact of desired and undesired developments in public sector and the causation for more risk awareness for sustainable development in local public administration.
In this book Ruxandra Maria Bejinariu introduces an innovative approach related to improving the risk assessment process by using unexploited methods that have been mainly used in limited areas of business and identifying both threats and opportunities that can be generated as a result of risk materialization. The study can offer possibilities of improving the risk assessment process with a direct impact on increasing the organizations’ risk appetite and sustainable performance.
The present volume addresses a set of challenges on the pass toward a more sustainable economy and society. Departing from conventional rhetoric on sustainability, the book is an invitation to reflect more closely on everyday routines, on the fundamentals and effects of current activities.
In this book Gregor Weber deals with enterprises and the pool of challenges including energy efficiency and sustainability they are confronted with. His research results in a two level model supporting enterprises on innovative and responsible business practices. It was awarded with the “Project Sustainability 2017” by the Council of Sustainable Development of the German government as well as with the “German Industry Award 2017”.
The study on the impact of the digital consumer's emotional intelligence based on the moral values promoted in e-business presents an actual interdisciplinary topic in the context of the digital age. The research proposes an original approach to e-business and digital consumer in terms of moral values and emotional intelligence. The Internet has positive effects on consumers and organizations when it is used properly to improve the quality of life. New consumers are more selective, receptive and interested in new technologies. Digital consumers have the opportunity to get informed quickly about products/services offers and e-business provides a simplified acquisition process through diversity and accessibility.
In this book, Christian Hürlimann examines valuation methods and their application in the context of managerial finance within renewable energy investments. Besides a review of classical finance models, the application of other contemporary techniques are discussed. Based on a mixed-methods approach, current practices in performing valuation are empirically analyzed among German and Swiss investors. The developed concepts provide practitioners tools to define equity value drivers, consider risk treatments and value investments along the two dimensions of value creation and value protection.
In this thesis Vanessa Just casts an innovative light upon the current perspectives and the future trends related to sustainable business processes in global companies. Developing sustainable business processes in the present changing and challenging environment represents an up-to-date issue of high importance for both the academic and business environment. The thesis raises awareness among entrepreneurs and managers not only about developing sustainable business processes, but also about continuously improving them.
The book presents an avant-garde and interdisciplinary technical-entrepreneurial approach for ensuring sustainability by bringing a Systems Engineering (SE) novel mechanism applied to telemedicine context making use of space technologies into the light. The distinctive theory from herein incorporates the international expertise of the author, Cristian Vizitiu, on SE and entrepreneurship within space field. This book targets a comprehensive SE technical solution, enriched with knowledge management & entrepreneurial assessment psychometric instruments for Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE) stimulation, to achieve sustainable services based on user-centered approach.
In this Open Access publication Claudia Lemke develops a comprehensive Multi-Level Sustainable Development Index (MLSDI) that is applicable to micro, meso, and macro objects by conducting methodological and empirical research. Multi-level comparability is crucial because the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at macro level can only be achieved if micro and meso objects contribute. The author shows that a novel information-theoretic algorithm outperforms established multivariate statistical weighting methods such as the principal component analysis (PCA). Overcoming further methodological shortcomings of previous sustainable development indices, the MLSDI avoids misled managerial and political decision making.
This empirical thesis analyses the impact of sentiments in online media on consumers, businesses, and society as a whole, and how knowledge of these correlations can be used in a variety of applications. The results show that the sentiment data can be employed in a variety of ways, functioning as an interesting new explanatory variable to complement and approximate survey data in areas such as tourism demand, consumer confidence, and many more. In particular, the cross-country sentiment analysis reveals compelling information on media biases, the reporting on alternative truths, and countries as a filter bubble. In addition to quantitative comparisons, the descriptive statistics reveal important information on the sentiment developments across countries. While this research is able to provide interesting findings for real-world applications for consumers, businesses, and society, the awareness of a media landscape that is heavily and increasingly dominated by negative news is particularly striking. Thus, in addition to the actual applications, above all, the thesis shows the media landscape in which everyone must act in the future.