TY - CHAP A1 - Kirchner, Vera T1 - Die (fast) vergessene Mauer T2 - Geschichte und Geschehen 9/10 für das Land Berlin/Brandenburg Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-12443-635-1 SP - 220 EP - 221 PB - Sauer CY - Leipzig ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kirchner, Vera T1 - Anfänge der Globalisierung BT - Beispiel Kakao T2 - Geschichte und Geschehen 9/10 für das Land Berlin/Brandenburg Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-12443-635-1 SP - 224 EP - 227 PB - Klett CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kirchner, Vera A1 - Loerwald, Dirk ED - Kirchner, Vera ED - Loerwald, Dirk T1 - Bildung zur Selbständigkeit BT - Existenzgründung im Unterricht aus fachdidaktischer Perspektive JF - Unterricht Wirtschaft + Politik Y1 - 2018 SN - 2191-6624 SN - 2751-1243 IS - 04 SP - 8 EP - 11 PB - Friedrich Verlag GmbH CY - Hannover ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kirchner, Vera ED - Arndt, Holger T1 - Die Sorge um die Vorsorge BT - Vermögensbildung und Altersvorsorge als internationales oder inzidentelles Feld schulischer finanzieller Allgemeinbildung? JF - Intentionen und Kontexte ökonomischer Bildung Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-7344-0594-5 SN - 978-3-7344-0595-2 SP - 109 EP - 124 PB - Wochenschau Verlag Dr. Kurt Debus GmbH CY - Frankfurt a.M. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kirchner, Vera T1 - Das "weiße Gold" in Preußen T2 - Geschichte und Geschehen 9/10 für das Land Berlin/Brandenburg Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-12443-635-1 SP - 222 EP - 223 PB - Klett CY - Stuttgart ER - TY - GEN A1 - Kirchner, Vera T1 - Social Entrepreneurship BT - Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmer mit einer sozialen Mission T2 - Teach economy : das Portal für den Wirtschaftsunterricht N2 - Nur mal kurz die Welt retten – und ganz nebenbei eine erfolgreiche Unternehmerin/ein erfolgreicher Unternehmer sein? Beispiele für das sogenannte Social Entrepreneurship findet man heutzutage viele. Hierunter versteht man die Bearbeitung gesellschaftlicher Probleme mit Hilfe des unternehmerischen Ansatzes. Unternehmerischer Gewinn steht hier jedoch nicht an erster Stelle, sondern der Beitrag zur Bewältigung gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen. Aber auch in ganz „normalen“ Unternehmen spielen soziale, wie auch ökologische Faktoren heute eine wachsende Rolle. Im vorliegenden Modul gewinnen die Schülerinnen und Schüler anhand des Films „Unternehmen wagen – 3 Wege in die Selbstständigkeit“ einen Einblick in die Unternehmerwelt. Sie lernen exemplarische Beispiele für (soziales) Unternehmertum kennen, analysieren diese vor dem Hintergrund des Konzepts Social Entrepreneurship und diskutieren verschiedene Facetten unternehmerischer Verantwortung. Y1 - 2018 PB - Joachim Herz Stiftung CY - Hamburg ER - TY - JFULL ED - Kirchner, Vera ED - Loerwald, Dirk T1 - Unterricht Wirtschaft + Politik BT - Existenzgründung N2 - Wer ein Unternehmen gründet, trägt ein hohes Maß an Verantwortung – nicht nur für die eigene Person, sondern für den gesamten Betrieb. Entscheidungen wollen bedächtig und rational kalkuliert sein und nicht aus dem Bauch heraus getroffen werden. Manche von ihnen wiegen schwer. Auch scheitern viele kreative Köpfe mit ihrer Gründungsidee, noch bevor sie ihr volles Potenzial entfalten kann. Y1 - 2018 SN - 2191-6624 SN - 2751-1243 IS - 4 PB - Friedrich Verlag GmbH CY - Hannover ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kirchner, Vera A1 - Loerwald, Dirk ED - Kirchner, Vera ED - Loerwald, Dirk T1 - Wir gründen eine Schülerfirma - Tipps und Tricks aus Theorie und Praxis BT - ein Interview zur Schülerfirmenarbeit mit Dr. Isabelle Penning und Constantin Klitsch JF - Unterricht Wirtschaft + Politik Y1 - 2018 SN - 2191-6624 SN - 2751-1243 IS - 4 SP - 50 EP - 52 PB - Friedrich Verlag GmbH CY - Hannover ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kirchner, Vera ED - Meier, Bernd T1 - Ökonomische Bildung für morgen BT - ökonomisches Lehren und Lernen in Zeiten der Digitalisierung JF - Unser Bildungsverständnis im Wandel Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-86464-171-8 SP - 193 EP - 210 PB - trafo CY - Berlin ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Reith, Florian A1 - Seyfried, Markus T1 - Balancing the Moods BT - Quality Managers’ Perceptions and Actions Against Resistance JF - Higher education policy N2 - Quality management (QM) has spread around the world and reached higher education in Europe in the early 1990s (Mendel, 2006, 137; Kernegger and Vettori, 2013, 1). However, researchers were rather more interested in national quality assurance policies (macro-level) and accreditation systems (meso-level) than in intra-organizational perspectives about the day-to-day implementation of quality assurance policies by various actors (micro-level). Undoubtedly, organizational change is a challenging endeavor for all kinds of groups. On the one hand, it provides the opportunity of further development and innovation, but on the other hand, it exposes organizations and actors to the risk of losing established structures and accepted routines. Like in many other organizations, actors may not necessarily perceive change as a promoter of innovation and development. Instead, they may consider change as a threat to the existing status quo or, as March points out, as an “interplay between rationality and foolishness” (March, 1981, 563). Consequently, change provokes either affective or behavioral actions (Armenakis and Bedeian, 1999, 308–310), such as, for example, resistance. Anderson (2006, 2008) and Lucas (2014) have shown, for example, that academic resistance is an important issue. However, Piderit characterizes resistance as a multidimensional construct (Piderit, 2000, 786–787) subject to a wide variety of issues related to quality and QM. Although QM has been described as a “fashion” (Stensaker, 2007, 101) in the higher education sector that provokes many different reactions, its implementation in higher education institutions (HEIs) is still a rather unexplored field. Thus, the evidence provided by Anderson (2006, 2008) and others (Newton, 2000, 2002; McInnis et al., 1995; Fredman and Doughney, 2012; Lucas, 2014; etc.) needs to be expanded, because they only consider the perspective of academia. In particular, the view of other actors during the implementation of quality assurance policies is a missing piece in this empirical puzzle. Nearly nothing is known about how quality managers deal with reactions to organizational change like resistance and obstruction. Until now, only a few studies have focused on intra-organizational dynamics (see, for example: Csizmadia et al., 2008; Lipnicka, 2016). Besides the lack of research on the implementation of quality assurance policies in HEIs, quality managers seem to be an interesting subject for further investigations because they are “endogenous” to institutional processes. On the one hand, quality managers are the result of quality assurance policies, and on the other hand, they influence the implementation of quality assurance policies, which affect other actors (like academics, administrative staff, etc.). Here, quality managers, as members of an emerging higher education profession, are involved in various conflict lines between QM, HEI management and departments, which need further research (Seyfried and Pohlenz, 2018, 9). Therefore, the aim of our paper is twofold: firstly, to answer the question of how quality managers perceive resistance, and secondly, which measures they take in situations of perceived resistance. We offer a new research perspective and argue that resistance is not merely provoked by organizational change; it also provokes counter-reactions by actors who are confronted with resistance. Thus, resistance seems to be rather endogenous. To theorize our argument, we apply parts of the work of Christine Oliver (1991), which provides theoretical insights into strategic responses to institutional processes, ranging from acquiescence to manipulation (Oliver, 1991, 152). We, therefore, investigate the introduction of QM in teaching and learning, and the emergence of quality managers as higher education professionals as one of the results of quality assurance policies. Consequently, the introduction of QM may be considered as an institutional process provoking reactions and counter-reactions of various organizational units within HEIs. These circumstances are constitutive for how quality managers deal with resistance and other reactions toward organizational change. We use this theoretical framework to analyze the German higher education sector, because this particular case can be considered as a latecomer in New Public Management reforms (Schimank, 2005, 369) and Germany is a country where academic self-governance plays a very important role, and strongly influences academics’ behavior when it comes to organizational change (Wolter, 2004). Our empirical results are based on a mixed-methods research design and integrate half-structured interviews and a nationwide survey at the central level in German HEIs, which excludes faculty members of QM (decentral level). They reveal that quality managers take different types of action when resistance occurs during the implementation of quality assurance policies. Furthermore, quality managers mainly react with different tactics. These tactics seem to be relevant for convincing academics and for the enhancement of their commitment to improve the quality of teaching and learning, instead of provoking further resistance or avoidance practices. This article proceeds as follows: the next sections describe the context and explain our main theoretical concepts referring to the work of Oliver (1991) and others. After that, we present our case selection and the methodological framework, including the data sources and the operationalization of selected variables. Finally, we provide our empirical results about quality managers’ perceptions on resistance and we draw conclusions. KW - higher education KW - quality management KW - institutional processes KW - resistance KW - balancing Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-018-0124-6 SN - 0952-8733 SN - 1740-3863 VL - 32 IS - 1 SP - 71 EP - 91 PB - Palgrave Macmillan CY - Basingstoke ER - TY - GEN A1 - Kluge, Annette A1 - Gronau, Norbert T1 - Intentional forgetting in organizations BT - the importance of eliminating retrieval cues for implementing new routines T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - To cope with the already large, and ever increasing, amount of information stored in organizational memory, "forgetting," as an important human memory process, might be transferred to the organizational context. Especially in intentionally planned change processes (e.g., change management), forgetting is an important precondition to impede the recall of obsolete routines and adapt to new strategic objectives accompanied by new organizational routines. We first comprehensively review the literature on the need for organizational forgetting and particularly on accidental vs. intentional forgetting. We discuss the current state of the art of theory and empirical evidence on forgetting from cognitive psychology in order to infer mechanisms applicable to the organizational context. In this respect, we emphasize retrieval theories and the relevance of retrieval cues important for forgetting. Subsequently, we transfer the empirical evidence that the elimination of retrieval cues leads to faster forgetting to the forgetting of organizational routines, as routines are part of organizational memory. We then propose a classification of cues (context, sensory, business process-related cues) that are relevant in the forgetting of routines, and discuss a meta-cue called the "situational strength" cue, which is relevant if cues of an old and a new routine are present simultaneously. Based on the classification as business process-related cues (information, team, task, object cues), we propose mechanisms to accelerate forgetting by eliminating specific cues based on the empirical and theoretical state of the art. We conclude that in intentional organizational change processes, the elimination of cues to accelerate forgetting should be used in change management practices. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 127 KW - change management KW - multi-actor routines KW - business processes KW - knowledge management KW - organizational memory KW - situational strength Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-446022 SN - 1867-5808 IS - 127 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Kurz, Verena A1 - Orland, Andreas A1 - Posadzy, Kinga T1 - Fairness versus efficiency BT - how procedural fairness concerns affect coordination T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - We investigate in a laboratory experiment whether procedural fairness concerns affect how well individuals are able to solve a coordination problem in a two-player Volunteer's Dilemma. Subjects receive external action recommendations, either to volunteer or to abstain from it, in order to facilitate coordination and improve efficiency. We manipulate the fairness of the recommendation procedure by varying the probabilities of receiving the disadvantageous recommendation to volunteer between players. We find evidence that while recommendations improve overall efficiency regardless of their implications for expected payoffs, there are behavioural asymmetries depending on the recommendation: advantageous recommendations are followed less frequently than disadvantageous ones and beliefs about others' actions are more pessimistic in the treatment with recommendations inducing unequal expected payoffs. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 117 KW - coordination KW - correlated equilibrium KW - recommendations KW - procedural fairness KW - volunteer’s dilemma KW - experiment Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-432611 SN - 1867-5808 IS - 117 SP - 601 EP - 626 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Fischer, Caroline T1 - Neue Talente braucht das Amt BT - Traineeprogramme im öffentlichen Sektor T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Stellenabbau und demografischer Wandel führen zu Rekrutierungsschwierigkeiten und einem Mangel an talentierten Nachwuchskräften in der öffentlichen Verwaltung. Gleichzeitig stellen sich neue Anforderungen an öffentliche Behörden, die eine andere Qualifikation der Beschäftigten nach sich ziehen. Gerade öffentliche Dienste mit geschlossenen Personalsystemen brauchen daher eine stärkere Flexibilität in der Nachwuchsrekrutierung und -ausbildung. Traineeprogramme können hier Abhilfe schaffen. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 106 KW - Traineeprogramm KW - Talent Management KW - öffentliche Verwaltung KW - Public Management KW - Personalmanagement Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-430598 VL - 2018 IS - 106 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Giebler, Heiko A1 - Ruth, Saskia P. A1 - Tanneberg, Dag T1 - Why choice matters BT - revisiting and comparing measures of democracy T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Measures of democracy are in high demand. Scientific and public audiences use them to describe political realities and to substantiate causal claims about those realities. This introduction to the thematic issue reviews the history of democracy measurement since the 1950s. It identifies four development phases of the field, which are characterized by three recurrent topics of debate: (1) what is democracy, (2) what is a good measure of democracy, and (3) do our measurements of democracy register real-world developments? As the answers to those questions have been changing over time, the field of democracy measurement has adapted and reached higher levels of theoretical and methodological sophistication. In effect, the challenges facing contemporary social scientists are not only limited to the challenge of constructing a sound index of democracy. Today, they also need a profound understanding of the differences between various measures of democracy and their implications for empirical applications. The introduction outlines how the contributions to this thematic issue help scholars cope with the recurrent issues of conceptualization, measurement, and application, and concludes by identifying avenues for future research. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 104 KW - application KW - conceptualization KW - democracy KW - democratic quality KW - measurement Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-427891 SN - 1867-5808 IS - 104 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Dorband, Ira Irina A1 - Jakob, Michael A1 - Kalkuhl, Matthias A1 - Steckel, Jan Christoph T1 - Poverty and distributional effects of carbon pricing in low- and middle- income countries BT - a global comparative analysis T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Even though concerns about adverse distributional implications for the poor are one of the most important political challenges for carbon pricing, the existing literature reveals ambiguous results. For this reason, we assess the expected incidence of moderate carbon price increases for different income groups in 87 mostly low- and middle-income countries. Building on a consistent dataset and method, we find that for countries with per capita incomes of below USD 15,000 per year (at PPP-adjusted 2011 USD) carbon pricing has, on average, progressive distributional effects. We also develop a novel decomposition technique to show that distributional outcomes are primarily determined by differences among income groups in consumption patterns of energy, rather than of food, goods or services. We argue that an inverse U-shape relationship between energy expenditure shares and income explains why carbon pricing tends to be regressive in countries with relatively higher income. Since these countries are likely to have more financial resources and institutional capacities to deal with distributional issues, our findings suggest that mitigating climate change, raising domestic revenue and reducing economic inequality are not mutually exclusive, even in low- and middle-income countries. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 103 KW - carbon pricing KW - distributional effect KW - decomposition analysis KW - global comparison KW - household data KW - low- and middle-income countries Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-424592 SN - 1867-5808 IS - 103 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ebinger, Falk A1 - Kuhlmann, Sabine A1 - Bogumil, Jörg T1 - Territorial reforms in Europe BT - effects on administrative performance and democratic participation T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Territorial reform is the most radical and contested reorganisation of local government. A sound evaluation of the outcome of such reforms is hence an important step to ensure the legitimation of any decision on the subject. However, in our view the discourse on the subject appears to be one sided, focusing primarily on overall fiscal effects scrutinised by economists. The contribution of this paper is hence threefold: Firstly, we provide an overview off territorial reforms in Europe, with a special focus on Eastern Germany as a promising case for cross-country comparisons. Secondly, we provide an over-view of the analytical classifications of these reforms and context factors to be considered in their evaluation. And thirdly, we analyse the literature on qualitative performance effects of these reforms. The results show that territorial reforms have a significant positive impact on functional performance, while the effects on participation and integration are indeed ambivalent. In doing so, we provide substantial arguments for a broader, more inclusive discussion on the success of territorial reforms. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 100 KW - municipal amalgamation effects KW - territorial reform KW - municipal mergers KW - local government performance KW - administrative reforms Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-420583 SN - 1867-5808 IS - 100 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Class, Fabian A1 - Kohler, Ulrich A1 - Krawietz, Marian T1 - The Potsdam Grievance Statistics File BT - new data on quality of life and political participation for the German Democratic Republic 1970–1989 T2 - Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History N2 - The newly collected “Potsdam Grievance Statistics File” (PGSF) holds data on the number and topics of grievances (“Eingaben”) that were addressed to local authorities of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the years 1970 to 1989. The PGSF allows quantitative analyses on topics such as participation, quality of life, and value change in the German Democratic Republic. This paper introduces the concepts of the data set and discusses the validity of its contents. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 97 KW - Potsdam Grievance Statistics File (PGSF) KW - German Democratic Republic (GDR) KW - Eingaben KW - Participation KW - Quality of Life Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412843 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Ganghof, Steffen A1 - Eppner, Sebastian A1 - Pörschke, Alexander T1 - Australian bicameralism as semi-parliamentarism BT - patterns of majority formation in 29 democracies T2 - Australian Journal of Political Science N2 - The article analyses the type of bicameralism we find in Australia as a distinct executive-legislative system – a hybrid between parliamentary and presidential government – which we call ‘semi- parliamentary government’. We argue that this hybrid presents an important and underappreciated alternative to pure parliamentary government as well as presidential forms of the power-separation, and that it can achieve a certain balance between competing models or visions of democracy. We specify theoretically how the semi-parliamentary separation of powers contributes to the balancing of democratic visions and propose a conceptual framework for comparing democratic visions. We use this framework to locate the Australian Commonwealth, all Australian states and 22 advanced democratic nation-states on a two- dimensional empirical map of democratic patterns for the period from 1995 to 2015. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 95 KW - executive-legislative relations KW - bicameralism KW - parliamentary government KW - presidential government KW - visions of democracy Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412984 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Seyfried, Markus A1 - Pohlenz, Philipp T1 - Assessing quality assurance in higher education BT - quality managers’ perceptions of effectiveness T2 - European Journal of Higher Education N2 - The present article offers a mixed-method perspective on the investigation of determinants of effectiveness in quality assurance at higher education institutions. We collected survey data from German higher education institutions to analyse the degree to which quality managers perceive their approaches to quality assurance as effective. Based on this data, we develop an ordinary least squares regression model which explains perceived effectiveness through structural variables and certain quality assurance-related activities of quality managers. The results show that support by higher education institutions’ higher management and cooperation with other education institutions are relevant preconditions for larger perceived degrees of quality assurance effectiveness. Moreover, quality managers’ role as promoters of quality assurance exhibits significant correlations with perceived effectiveness. In contrast, sanctions and the perception of quality assurance as another administrative burden reveal negative correlations. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Reihe - 94 KW - higher education KW - perceived effectiveness of quality management KW - quality assurance Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413052 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Höhne, Chris A1 - Fuhr, Harald A1 - Hickmann, Thomas A1 - Lederer, Markus A1 - Stehle, Fee ED - Nuesiri, Emmanuel O. T1 - REDD+ and the reconfiguration of public authority in the forest sector BT - a comparative case study of Indonesia and Brazil T2 - Global Forest Governance and Climate Change Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-319-71945-0 SP - 203 EP - 241 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER -