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Zeitbudget, Sozialkontakte, Freizeitverhalten, Teilnehmeranalysen
No full textKommentierter Tabellenband einer empirischen Untersuchung mit Teilnehmeranalysen der mittelstädtischen Volkshochschule Werl-Wickede(Ruhr)-Ense sowie Ergebnissen einer repräsentativen Befragung der Bevölkerung. Das Buch vermittelt aufschlussreiche Erkenntnisse über das tägliche Zeitbudget (Wie sieht der Tagesablauf aus? Wann haben die Menschen mindestens zwei Stunden Zeit zur freien Verfügung?), die Kontaktqualität und -quantität (Wie viele Sozialkontakte haben die Menschen? Wie groß ist ihr Kontaktbedürfnis?), das Freizeitverhalten (Mit welchen Aktivitäten beschäftigen sich die Menschen wie oft in ihrer Freizeit?) und die Zusammensetzung der VHS-Teilnehmerschaft (Welche Bevölkerungsschichten besuchen die VHS-Kurse? Sind sie auch in anderen Vereinigungen aktiv? Welche Motivationen und Erwartungen sind besonders relevant?). Eine allgemeine Einschätzung der persönlichen Lebens- und Berufszufriedenheit sowie spezielle Sozialprofil-Tabellen runden die empirische Studie ab
Liebe, Literatur und Philosophie im Renaissancedialog: Pietro Bembo - Gli Asolani
No full textBedeutet "amore" zwangsläufig "amaro"? Oder ist die Liebe eine positive Kraft, die den Menschen zu neuen Tugenden befähigt und Freude schafft? Mit dieser Problematik beschäftigt sich Pietro Bembos Gli Asolani, die für dieses Buch die Grundlage in der Diskussion um die Berechtigung und moralischen Wertung von Liebe darstellen. Der Versuch, verschiedene Referenzsysteme für einen Renaissance-Autor wie Bembo zu ergründen, schließt neben den platonischen Definitionsansätzen, die größtenteils auf der Grundlage von Marsilio Ficinos De Amore rezipiert werden, auch das Liebeskonzept ein, das aus Francesco Petrarcas Canzoniere abgeleitet werden kann. Ebenso wird die Problematik der imitatio im Zeichen des Humanismus fokussiert. Die Analyse des Genres widmet sich der Dialogpraxis Bembos und weist den Weg in Richtung Pluralitätsdebatte und der damit verbundenen Diskussion um einen epistemologischen Wandel. Das Buch leistet einen Beitrag zu der Fragestellung, ob es dem Begründer des umanesimo volgare Pietro Bembo um reine aemulatio seines Vorbildes Francesco Petrarca ging oder ob nicht ebenso die Thematisierung der Gegensätzlichkeit verschiedener Liebeskonzepte in ihrer ausgesprochenen Heterogenität eine zentrale Rolle spielt
The Innovation Challenge, small and medium sized enterprises in the frontline - Analysis of the participation of SMEs in R&D projects on an international scale
No full textSMEs are becoming more and more sensitive to innovation and to the diversification of their businesses based on new knowledge and intellectual property rights that help them to fight the financial crisis and globalization process to strengthen their level of competitiveness
The Innovation Challenge - small and medium sized enterprises in the frontline
No full textSMEs are becoming more and more sensitive to innovation and to the diversification of their businesses based on new knowledge and intellectual property rights that help them to fight the financial crisis and globalization process to strengthen their level of competitiveness
Future scenarios on multilateralism: global governance models for efficient (economic) policy coordination
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Future Scenarios on Multilateralism: Global Governance Models for Efficient (Economic) Policy Coordination
Christin Pfeiffer
One has to acknowledge that we live in an extremely fast-paced, interdependent society with the Covid-19 pandemic having put the world upside down. Economically speaking, nothing is currently as it was before 2020 and global recovery is moving at increasingly different speed. This research aims at addressing the state-of-the-art of multilateral cooperation and related mechanisms, which appeared to be caught in a blind alley since a while but have recently been put under spotlight all at a sudden due to the global crisis, showing the clear need for multilateral governance models that are fit-for-purpose in the 21st century.
After recalling existing fora for international exchange, the work examines selected, rather recently established platforms and initiatives with the purpose to shed light on their perception and impact when implementing international cooperation agreements, by analyzing strengths and weaknesses of their processes and functioning, and by carefully focusing on eventual potential for improvement. By deep diving into an assessment of key elements of multilateral mechanisms that promote and actively perform economic cooperation, the intention is to define good practices based on relevant characteristics that contribute positively to a fruitful negotiation process, able to reshape and upgrade multilateralism to be functional, inclusive, representative and sustainable for the 21st century. This comprises providing insights on new alliances building, elucidating the raison d’être of new groupings emerging in certain geopolitical circumstances or with regard to specific thematic issues, with the final aim to outline a balanced scenario of future global governance models which allow peaceful co-living and take a conscious exploitation of resources into account. By doing so, the research touches upon the subject of how to potentially renew international institutions including their mandate – a tightrope act, given the implications on the difficult question around possibly necessary reforms of the multilateral apparatus as such, its leadership, imprint on values, and representativeness against the backdrop of the current power distribution.
This analysis finally looks at concerns targeting security (especially with regard to critical digital infrastructures) and stability, potentially assuming the main global currency would not abide by the dollar and the IMF suffer competition in a medium run. Ultimately, this culminates in the attempt to sketch ways to redesign the multilateral process, given the world’s “multiplexity”, with numerous challenges for humanity ahead as tangles to untie. Against this backdrop, the work brainstorms and puts forward some proposals on prerequisites concerning the ability of the West to accept the coexistence of open democracies and other political systems, in order to be able to jointly fight global threats as the climate crisis or future pandemics. It finally calls for heads of government showing courage and enlightened leadership skills, in order to move towards reconciliation and find a compromise for a new, rules-based world order, allowing all economies to recover and unleash their potential for resilience to a reasonable extent
The critical role of innovation for the well-being of our society: a multilateral approach matters
Full text linkThe article analyzes the importance of innovation in promoting social well-being and its possible role in
driving prosperity and accelerating regional development. It elaborates on the paramount role of small
and mediium sized enterprises in generating jobs and spurring employment. International cooperation
must take these aspects into account in order to promote economic, environmental and social
sustainability and contribute to the reduction of inequalitie
Different Types of Supply Chains
No full textIn a global supply chain many partnering firms are normally SMEs supporting a focal firm in the process of supplying raw materials to the delivery of final products and services to end customers. In context to the supply chain of the focal firm, SMEs play a very crucial role in attaining cost efficiencies in procurement and production processes, and accurate and timely delivery of products and services. But this requires a close and trustworthy relationship
2018-2020 Final Report to the European Commission
No full textEuropean SMEs are operating in a changing global environment that presents new kinds of challenges that necessitate agility, increased awareness and systematic innovation at multiple levels. The Horizon 2020 specific objective “Innovation in SMEs” needs, as a policy tool, to reflect this environment and faces specific challenges of its own that it must address if it is to achieve its intended purpose
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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