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[Rezension zu:] Herwig Gottwald u. Holger Klein (Hg.): Konzepte der Metamorphose in den Geisteswissenschaften
No full textRezension zu Herwig Gottwald u. Holger Klein (Hg.): Konzepte der Metamorphose in den Geisteswissenschaften. Heidelberg (Winter) 2005. 183 S.
Unter dem Leitwort 'Metamorphosen' steht die Arbeit einer Gruppe von Geisteswissenschaftlern an der Kultur- und Gesellschaftswissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität Salzburg; verbindendes Anliegen ist die Idee "den Begriff der Metamorphose unter verschiedenen, zum Teil gegensätzlichen theoretischen und einzelwissenschaftlichen Perspektiven zu beleuchten und für geisteswissenschaftliche Untersuchungen epistemisch fruchtbar zu machen", wie Herwig Gottwald und Holger Klein erläutern (Vorwort, unpag.). Es geht also darum, über interdisziplinär verbindende Einzelthemen und -gegenstände hinaus eine Operationsbasis zu finden - respektive zu schaffen -, auf der sich die Erkenntnisinteressen verschiedener Disziplinen als analog erweisen könnten
Innovation, endogenous overinvestment, and incentive pay
No full textWe analyze how two key managerial tasks interact: that of growing the business through creating new investment opportunities and that of providing accurate information about these opportunities in the corporate budgeting process. We show how this interaction endogenously biases managers toward overinvesting in their own projects. This bias is exacerbated if managers compete for limited resources in an internal capital market, which provides us with a novel theory of the boundaries of the firm. Finally, managers of more risky and less profitable divisions should obtain steeper incentives to facilitate efficient investment decisions
Financing a portfolio of projects
No full textThis article shows that investors financing a portfolio of projects may use the depth of their financial pockets to overcome entrepreneurial incentive problems. Competition for scarce informed capital at the refinancing stage strengthens investors’ bargaining positions. And yet, entrepreneurs’ incentives may be improved, because projects funded by investors with ‘‘shallow pockets’’ must have not only a positive net present value at the refinancing stage, but one that is higher than that of competing portfolio projects. Our article may help understand provisions used in venture capital finance that limit a fund’s initial capital and make it difficult to add more capital once the initial venture capital fund is raised. (JEL G24, G31
Holger A. Klein, Byzanz, der Westen und das ‚wahre’ Kreuz. Die Geschichte einer Reliquie und ihrer künstlerischen Fassung in Byzanz und im Abendland
No full textHolger A. Klein, Byzanz, der Westen und das ‚wahre’ Kreuz. Die Geschichte einer Reliquie und ihrer künstlerischen Fassung in Byzanz und im Abendland. In: Revue des études byzantines, tome 64-65, 2006-2007. pp. 441-442
Variability of the ice nuclei concentration over Central Europe
No full textDie kumulative Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit der atmosphärischen Konzentration von Eiskeimen, einer Unterklasse des atmosphärischen Aerosols, die bei der Eisbildung in Wolken eine zentrale Bedeutung besitzt. Messungen der Eiskeimkonzentration am Taunusobservatorium (Kleiner Feldberg) (nahe Frankfurt am Main) wurden mit dem Verfahren einer Vakuum-Diffusionskammer durchgeführt. Die Arbeit umfasst die Darstellung des angewandten Messverfahrens und die Analyse und Bewertung der Messergebnisse für den Raum Zentraleuropa, anhand von u.a. Rückwärtstrajektorien und Korrelationen zu aerosolphysikalischen Parametern. Ein signifikanter Einfluss von Mineralstaub-Ferntransport aus Wüstengebieten auf die Eiskeimkonzentration in Zentral-Europa wurde ermittelt.The topic of this cumulative thesis is the variability of the concentration of atmospheric ice nuclei (IN), a sub-group of the atmospheric aerosol, that plays a central role in the process of ice-formation in clouds. The measurements of the IN number concentration at a mountain station (Kleiner Feldberg, near Frankfurt am Main) with a static vacuum-diffusion chamber are discussed. The measuring system is described in detail. In addition the thesis includes an analysis and an appraisal of the results for Central Europe, using amongst others backward-trajectories and correlation-analysis with aerosol-physical parameters. A significant influence of long range transport of desert dust to Europe on the ice nuclei concentration is being detected
The role of imagination in Bergman, Klein and Sartre
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and was awarded by Brunel UniversityThis thesis provides an inter-disciplinary study of selected works by Ingmar Bergman. I explore how key concepts from Melanie Klein and Jean-Paul Sartre apply to the focus on characters in a state of heightened imagination; and the value placed on imagination in the construction of these films. This involves recognition of the way an active response from the viewer is encouraged.
Klein, Sartre and Bergman also attend to contextual factors that challenge any notion of subjectivity as sovereign and the power of imagination is frequently placed in a social context. All three figures develop their ideas within specialised fields drawing on the influence of others. Chapter 2 shows how Klein’s ideas relate to the influence of Freud before exploring how her work can be applied to Bergman’s films through the example of Wild Strawberries. Chapter 3 concentrates on Sartre’s early work, The Imaginary and considers how this is significant in relation to some of Sartre’s better-known philosophical ideas developed during and after the Second World War. These ideas will lead to an exploration of The Seventh Seal.
Chapters 4, 5, and 6 focus on three films from distinct parts of Bergman’s career: Summer with Monika, The Virgin Spring and Hour of the Wolf. In Chapter 4 this will be preceded by a brief over-view of three more films from the early part of Bergman’s career. These chapters explore how Kleinian and Sartrean ideas can be incorporated in close analysis, and alongside selected critical responses to the films. The analysis integrates key points from Klein and Sartre in a methodology specific to film studies. This will include analysis of cinematic elements such as camera work and lighting, and recognition of narrative structure and character developmen
The Network of Innovators in Jena: An Application of Social Network Analysis
No full textWe apply social network analysis methods to describe the evolution of the innovator network of Jena, Germany in the period from 1995 to 2001. We find this evolution to be directed towards an increasing focus on core competencies of the local innovation system. Further we analyze the network resulting from R&D cooperations and explain - by means of network regression techniques - that the job mobility of scientists and the technological overlap between the actors, rather than past cooperations, can best predict the resulting structure. We also observe an increasing importance of the university while the former "Kombinate" begin to lose their prominent role.Innovator Networks, Network Regression, Local Innovation Systems, R+D Cooperation, Research University
Images of Austria in Italian Literature
No full text= Studies in English and Comparative Literature 1
Replication Data for: Are Sleepy Punishers Really Harsh Punishers?: Comment
No full textThis data set contains data (USSCdata.dta) and a script (Spamann_comment_Cho_dataanalysis.do) to recreate models 2,3, 5, and 6 of table 1 in Holger Spamann, Are Sleepy Punishers Really Harsh Punishers?: Comment, Psychological Science (forthcoming 2017). It also contains the raw data from the USSC (opafy92nid.dta through opafy03nid.dta), the USSC's codebooks explaining those data, and a second script (Spamann_comment_Cho_dataassembly_forweb.do) that generates USSCdata.dta from this raw data.
The data and scripts are written for Stata (version 14). The analysis script calls user-written packages estout and reghdfe.
Note that the scripts build and analyze ALL data mentioned in my article (i.e., not only models 2, 3, 5, and 6). The other data are available from: (a) TRAC data: by emailing [email protected] (TRAC will provide the data only to researchers affiliated with subscriber institutions); (b) Cho et al.’s original data: from the lead author of the original article, Kyoungmin Cho (I do not have permission to share their data).
If you do not have access to the other data or want to restrict your work to the USSC data, you should comment out the parts of the script concerning other data.
More information on running the scripts is contained in their first lines
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