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The European Central Bank between the Financial Crisis and Populisms
In light of the handover from the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi to Christine Lagarde in November 2019, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the events which unfolded since the euro area sovereign debt crisis in 2010 up until today. The book focuses on the far-reaching implications of the last decade, shedding light on a wide spectrum of political, economic and financial aspects of the European poly-crises and how monetary policy reacted to these challenges. The book places particular emphasis on the tensions that the supranational central bank was subject to during this period, and on their outcomes in terms of the policies, their legitimacy, and their public reception. As such, this book will be relevant not only to understand the political implications of the past crisis but also, and foremost, in understanding "what is next".
Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses
Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses brings together contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars on corpus-assisted analyses of multimodal data on austerity discourses in the United Kingdom, which extend and expand on the understanding of austerity but also of the methodologies used to analyse multimodal corpora. The volume demonstrates how the austerity measures introduced in response to global economic and financial crises in recent years can be viewed as being more complexly layered than they appear, not simply reduced to their connections to spending cuts and fiscal debt. The book employs an innovative methodological approach, in which established and emerging scholars...
Internationalisierung mittelständischer Zulieferunternehmen
Der Autor analysiert das Internationalisierungsverhalten mittelständischer Unternehmen auf der Basis umfassender Einzelfallstudien und legt die Heterogenität grenzüberschreitender Aktivitäten offen.
Remaking European Political Economies
From 2009 to 2015, the euro area of the European Union (EU) experienced an existential socio-economic crisis. To secure its institutional integrity, the EU designed several new institutions to support member states in need but also to facilitate socio-economic adjustments. The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) lies at the centre of this strategy: it provides financial assistance to member states in severe crisis on an intergovernmental basis while demanding compliance with adjustment programs from program countries. Based on a comparative political economic analysis, Remaking European Political Economies shows that the EU’s financial assistance programs focused strongly on reforms that le...
Competitiveness and Solidarity in the European Union
Starting in the 1980s, competitive pressures and the ideology of competitiveness have shaken and transformed traditional models of development, public policy, and governance in Europe. This edited book carries out a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and innovative analysis of the relationship between competitiveness and solidarity in the contemporary European Union. It offers an original contribution to the scholarly debates on the current developments and challenges of welfare states, social and economic policies, and forms of governance in the European Union. Bringing together an international team of cutting-edge scholars in the social sciences and the humanities, Competitiveness and Solidarity in the European Union sheds light on the conceptual richness and policy relevance of these relationships, pointing to important avenues to make the European Union more economically successful and socially fairer. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union studies and, more broadly, of EU Law, Public Policy, Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Geography, and Contemporary History.
Family Multinationals
In contrast to widespread assessments that family enterprises lack sufficient resources and capabilities to go global, many family companies are competing successfully in an increasingly globalized business environment. Worldwide, a large number of thriving multinationals are still family-owned and/or under family control. While there is abundant literature on the phenomenon of globalization from many different disciplines, neither the literature on multinationals nor the growing field of family business studies have systematically investigated family multinationals yet. This volume is one of the first to deal explicitly with family multinationals and the role of the family in internationali...
On Track Or Off The Rails?
In order to achieve a transition from a transport system centred on the individual car to one centred on (electrified) rail a new focus in infrastructure planning is needed. The preparation of project proposals for the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 on the sub-national level in Germany provides an opportunity to study decision-making processes in ministries and compare their respective results in this respect. Using document analysis, expert interviews, qualitative content analysis as well as QCA, this thesis in political science analyses how decision-making processes within bureaucracies impact the decision output in transport infrastructure planning. It contributes to the discussion on bureaucracy-politics interactions that is relevant beyond the German case. One result is that ministries tend to use complex decision-making processes for topics deemed salient as long as the available capacity permits it. Consequently, in order to conduct legitimacy-enhancing steps – such as public participation – a well-funded bureaucracy is indispensable.
Rechtspopulistische Verschwörungstheorien in demokratischen Verfassungsstaaten
Welche Rolle spielen Verschwörungstheorien in den Programmen rechtspopulistischer Parteien? Politikwissenschaftler Christoph Schiebel legt mit seiner Dissertation eine erkenntnisreiche Analyse zur Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), der Schweizerischen Volkspartei (SVP), der Freiheitlichen Partei Österreichs (FPÖ) und zum Front National (FN) vor. Aus wissenssoziologischer, politik- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive stellt er wertvolle Parteiforschungserkenntnisse zu Verschwörungserzählungen vor und zeigt, welche Rolle diese bei Themen wie Überwachung, EU, Bargeldabschaffung, Migration, Sicherheit, Wissenschaft, Bildung und Medien spielen.
Natural Gas and Renewable Methane for Powertrains
This book focuses on natural gas and synthetic methane as contemporary and future energy sources. Following a historical overview, physical and chemical properties, occurrence, extraction, transportation and storage of natural gas are discussed. Sustainable production of natural gas and methane as well as production and storage of synthetic methane are scrutinized next. A substantial part of the book addresses construction of vehicles for natural and synthetic methane as well as large engines for industrial and maritime use. The last chapters present some perspectives on further uses of renewable liquid fuels as well as natural gas for industrial engines and gas power plants.
Einfach Controlling
Das Controlling leistet Führungsunterstützung für die Planung, Steuerung und Kontrolle aller Unternehmensbereiche. Dazu laufen hier die Daten des Rechnungswesens und anderer Quellen zusammen, müssen adäquat aufbereitet und zur Grundlage für Entscheidungen gemacht werden. Der Autor vermittelt die grundlegenden theoretischen und instrumentellen Inhalte des Controllings, behandelt dabei die praktischen Anwendungsfragen und verdeutlicht anhand eines durchgehenden Beispiels, wie das Management durch Controlling unterstützt werden kann. Da Nachhaltigkeit für die Gestaltungs- und Lenkungsaufgabe immer relevanter wird und neben ökonomischen auch Fragen der Ökologie, des Sozialen und guter Unternehmensführung zu integrieren sind, wird eine systemische Herangehensweise vermittelt.
