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Over the past decades, the growing proliferation of international institutions governing the global environment has impelled institutional interplay as a result of functional and normative overlap across multiple regimes.
This article synthesizes primary contributions made in research on institutional interplay over the past twenty years, with particular focus on publications with International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics. Broadening our understanding about the different types, dimensions, pathways, and effects of institutional interplay, scholars have produced key insights into the ways and means by which international institutions cooperate, manage discord, engage in problem solving, and capture synergies across levels and scales.
As global environmental governance has become increasingly fragmented and complex, we recognize that recent studies have highlighted the growing interactions between transnationally operating institutions in the wake of polycentric governance and hybrid institutional complexes.
However, our findings reveal that there is insufficient empirical and conceptual research to fully understand the relationship, causes, and consequences of interplay between intergovernmental and transnational institutions. Reflecting on the challenges of addressing regulatory gaps and mitigating the crisis of multilateralism, we expound the present research frontier for further advancing research on institutional interplay and provide recommendations to support policy-making.
Value research has a long and extensive history of theoretical definitions and empirical investigations using large scale quantitative surveys. However, the way the general population understands, defines, and relates to the concept of values, and how these views vary across individuals is seldom addressed. The present study examined subjective interpretations of the term through focus group interviews, and reports on the development of a Value Conceptualisation Scale (VCS) that distinguishes six dimensions of different views on values: normativity, relevance, validity, stability, consistency, and awareness. Focus group interviews (n = 38) as well as several surveys (n = 100, n = 1519, n = 903, n = 94) were used to develop, refine, and test the scale in terms of response variety, temporal stability, as well as convergent and discriminant validity. These systematic results show that views on values do indeed vary significantly between participants. Correlations with dogmatism, preference for consistency, and metacognition were found for corresponding dimensions. The VCS provides an original measure, which enables future research to explore this variation on the conceptualisation of values.
Better land stewardship is needed to achieve the Paris Agreement's temperature goal, particularly in the tropics, where greenhouse gas emissions from the destruction of ecosystems are largest, and where the potential for additional land carbon storage is greatest. As countries enhance their nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement, confusion persists about the potential contribution of better land stewardship to meeting the Agreement's goal to hold global warming below 2 degrees C. We assess cost-effective tropical country-level potential of natural climate solutions (NCS)-protection, improved management and restoration of ecosystems-to deliver climate mitigation linked with sustainable development goals (SDGs). We identify groups of countries with distinctive NCS portfolios, and we explore factors (governance, financial capacity) influencing the feasibility of unlocking national NCS potential. Cost-effective tropical NCS offers globally significant climate mitigation in the coming decades (6.56 Pg CO(2)e yr(-1) at less than 100 US$ per Mg CO(2)e). In half of the tropical countries, cost-effective NCS could mitigate over half of national emissions. In more than a quarter of tropical countries, cost-effective NCS potential is greater than national emissions. We identify countries where, with international financing and political will, NCS can cost-effectively deliver the majority of enhanced NDCs while transforming national economies and contributing to SDGs. This article is part of the theme issue 'Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions'.
One for all, all for one
(2022)
We propose a conceptual model of acceptance of contact tracing apps based on the privacy calculus perspective. Moving beyond the duality of personal benefits and privacy risks, we theorize that users hold social considerations (i.e., social benefits and risks) that underlie their acceptance decisions. To test our propositions, we chose the context of COVID-19 contact tracing apps and conducted a qualitative pre-study and longitudinal quantitative main study with 589 participants from Germany and Switzerland. Our findings confirm the prominence of individual privacy calculus in explaining intention to use and actual behavior. While privacy risks are a significant determinant of intention to use, social risks (operationalized as fear of mass surveillance) have a notably stronger impact. Our mediation analysis suggests that social risks represent the underlying mechanism behind the observed negative link between individual privacy risks and contact tracing apps' acceptance. Furthermore, we find a substantial intention–behavior gap.
Who makes the world?
(2020)
In this essay, we consider the role of academics as change-makers. There is a long line of reflection about academics' sociopolitical role(s) in international relations (IR). Yet, our attempt differs from available considerations in two regards. First, we emphasize that academics are not a homogenous group. While some keep their distance from policymakers, others frequently provide policy advice. Hence, positions and possibilities of influence differ. Second, our argument is not oriented towards the past but the future. That is, we develop our reflections on academics as change-makers by outlining the vision of a 'FutureLab', an innovative, future forum that brings together different world-makers who are united in their attempt to improve 'the world'. Our vision accounts for current, perhaps alarming trends in academia, such as debates about the (in)ability to confront post-truth politics. Still, it is a (critically) optimistic one and can be read as an invitation for experimentation. Finally, we sympathize with voices demanding the democratization of academia and find that further cross-disciplinary dialogues within academia and dialogues between different academics, civil society activists and policymakers may help in finding creditable solutions to problems such as climate change and populism.
Narratives are shaping our understanding of the world. They convey values and norms and point to desirable future developments. In this way, they justify and legitimize political actions and social practices. Once a narrative has emerged and this world view is supported by broad societal groups, narratives can provide powerful momentum to trigger innovation and changes in the course of action. Narratives, however, are not necessarily based on evidence and precise categories, but can instead be vague and ambiguous in order to be acceptable and attractive to different actors. However, the more open and inclusive a narrative is, the less impact can be expected. We investigate whether there is a shared narrative in research for the sustainable economy and how this can be evaluated in terms of its potential societal impact. The paper carves out the visions for the future that have been underlying the research projects conducted within the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) funding programme "The Sustainable Economy". It then analyzes whether these visions are compatible with narratives dominating societal discourse on the sustainable economy, and concludes how the use of visions and narratives in research can contribute to fostering societal transformations.
Digitalization, as well as sustainability, are gaining increased relevance and have attracted significant attention in research and practice. However, the research already published about this topic examining digitalization in the retail sector does not consider the acceptance of related innovations, nor their impact on sustainability. Therefore, this article critically analyzes the acceptance of customers towards digital technologies in fashion stores as well as their impact on sustainability in the textile industry. The comprehensive analysis of the literature and the current state of research provide the basis of this paper. Theoretical models, such as the Technology-Acceptance-Model (TAM) and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT 2) enable the evaluation of expectations and acceptance, as well as the assessment of possible inhibitory factors for the subsequent descriptive and statistical examination of the acceptance of digital technologies in fashion stores. The research on this subject was examined in a quantitative way. The key findings show that customers do accept digital technologies in fashion stores. The final part of this contribution describes the innovative Digitalization 4 Sustainability Framework which shows that digital technologies at the point of sale (PoS) in fashion stores could have a positive impact on sustainability. Overall, this paper shows that it is particularly important for fashion stores to concentrate on their individual strengths and customer needs as well as to indicate a more sustainable way by using digital technologies, in order to achieve added value for the customers and to set themselves apart from the competition while designing a more sustainable future. Moreover, fashion stores should make it a point of their honor to harness the power of digitalization for sake of sustainability and economic value creation.
Digitalization, as well as sustainability, are gaining increased relevance and have attracted significant attention in research and practice. However, the research already published about this topic examining digitalization in the retail sector does not consider the acceptance of related innovations, nor their impact on sustainability. Therefore, this article critically analyzes the acceptance of customers towards digital technologies in fashion stores as well as their impact on sustainability in the textile industry. The comprehensive analysis of the literature and the current state of research provide the basis of this paper. Theoretical models, such as the Technology-Acceptance-Model (TAM) and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT 2) enable the evaluation of expectations and acceptance, as well as the assessment of possible inhibitory factors for the subsequent descriptive and statistical examination of the acceptance of digital technologies in fashion stores. The research on this subject was examined in a quantitative way. The key findings show that customers do accept digital technologies in fashion stores. The final part of this contribution describes the innovative Digitalization 4 Sustainability Framework which shows that digital technologies at the point of sale (PoS) in fashion stores could have a positive impact on sustainability. Overall, this paper shows that it is particularly important for fashion stores to concentrate on their individual strengths and customer needs as well as to indicate a more sustainable way by using digital technologies, in order to achieve added value for the customers and to set themselves apart from the competition while designing a more sustainable future. Moreover, fashion stores should make it a point of their honor to harness the power of digitalization for sake of sustainability and economic value creation.
Strength of weakness
(2020)
The paper investigates quality management in teaching and learning in higher education institutions from a principal-agent perspective. Based on data gained from semi-structured interviews and from a nation-wide survey with quality managers of German higher education institutions, the study shows how quality managers position themselves in relation to their perception of the interests of other actors in higher education institutions. The paper describes the various interests and discusses the main implications of this constellation of actors. It argues that quality managers, although they may be considered as rather weak actors within the higher education institution, may be characterised as having a strength of weakness due to diverging interests of their principals.
What does homophily do?
(2022)
Understanding the consequences of homophily, which is among the most widely observed social phenomena, is important, with implications for management theory and practice. Therefore, we review management research on the consequences of homophily. As these consequences have been studied at the individual, dyad, team, organizational, and macro levels, we structure our review accordingly. We highlight findings that are consistent and contradictory, as well as those that point to boundary conditions or moderators. In conducting our review, we also derive implications for management research from insights gained by research in other disciplines on this topic. We raise specific issues and opportunities for future research at each level, and conclude with a discussion of broader future research directions, both empirical and conceptual, that apply across levels. We hope that our review will open new vistas in research on this important topic.
Networking fast and slow
(2023)
Growing interest in network dynamics has led to insights about patterns of network change, drivers of tie formation, and the temporal unfolding of the consequences of networks. To this area of inquiry, we introduce networking speed—the time that it takes for individuals to form a network tie—as an important but so far largely overlooked aspect. We develop a theory of networking speed that explains how different catalysts enable professionals to introduce variation into the speed with which they form interpersonal network ties. We discuss how such variation in the speed with which ties have been formed influences relational outcomes and the network returns that these ties generate. This discussion illustrates that high networking speed can entail advantages as well as pitfalls. We also explore temporal implications of networking speed—for instance, the persistence of the effects of speed over time. Overall, we conceptualize networking speed as a constitutive element of how interpersonal networks function in professional settings, and we propose a future research program for the integration of this novel concept into organizational network research.
This paper seeks to address the relationship between social capital and perceived social origin in contemporary Austria. While the concept of social capital has been widely adopted in social sciences, so far research on the (pre)structured shape of social capital by social origin is scarce. Our aim is to close this gap. Therefore, we use the network-as-capital approach by following the “position generator” and apply latent class analysis (LCA) and path modelling on the basis of the 2018 Austrian Social Survey. The dataset comprises a representative sample of the Austrian residential population aged 18 and older. Our findings show that the diversity of social capital, and access to networks of people in more highly ranked positions is strongly influenced by one’s social background. The higher respondents assess their social origin, the greater the probability of being in this type of network. Furthermore, education and occupation have effects on membership in a class-specific network.
The social stratification systems of major cities are transforming all around the globe. International research has been discussing this trend and focus on changing occupational classes. However, the precise effects on urban households, taking social welfare and different family arrangements into account, as well as the precise effects on people with a migration background, remain unclear. Using the example of Vienna, this article examines immigration as a key dimension for social stratification. Although household income structures in Austria have remained comparatively stable over the past two decades, the middle-income share in Vienna (as the sole metropolis in Austria) has dramatically decreased. This predominantly affects people from migrant backgrounds. Using a comprehensive dataset (two waves, N = 16,700 participants, including N = 4,500 migrants), we systematically examine the role of (a) migration-specific and (b) education- and employment-related factors to explain the decline of middle-income migrants. The results of multinomial logistic regression and decomposition analyses suggest that transformations in the labour market is the main driving force. Changing migrant characteristics have counteracted this process. If today's migrants displayed similar showed characteristics (e.g., origin and educational levels) to those prevalent in the past decade, the ethnic stratification disparities would have been even stronger.
Value research has a long and extensive history of theoretical definitions and empirical investigations using large scale quantitative surveys. However, the way the general population understands, defines, and relates to the concept of values, and how these views vary across individuals is seldom addressed. The present study examined subjective interpretations of the term through focus group interviews, and reports on the development of a Value Conceptualisation Scale (VCS) that distinguishes six dimensions of different views on values: normativity, relevance, validity, stability, consistency, and awareness. Focus group interviews (n = 38) as well as several surveys (n = 100, n = 1519, n = 903, n = 94) were used to develop, refine, and test the scale in terms of response variety, temporal stability, as well as convergent and discriminant validity. These systematic results show that views on values do indeed vary significantly between participants. Correlations with dogmatism, preference for consistency, and metacognition were found for corresponding dimensions. The VCS provides an original measure, which enables future research to explore this variation on the conceptualisation of values.
Labour market entry poses enormous challenges for recently arrived refugees, ranging from language barriers, devaluation of human capital, unfamiliarity with customs of the job search process to outright discrimination. How can refugees overcome these challenges and quickly enter gainful employment? In this paper, we draw on interviews with 26 male and female refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran, conducted in 2017 and 2018, who came to Austria in 2015 and 2014 and who have successfully entered employment. We depict refugees’ own perspectives on and strategies for fast job entry and integration. Personal agency and a proactive approach of seeking and seizing opportunities are key for overcoming initial barriers and entering upon positive integration pathways. At the same time, refugees’ personal agency is essential for establishing social ties to the host society, which also play a crucial role in early labour market integration. Finally, institutions of the Austrian labour market (the ‘apprenticeship’-system) interact with refugees’ agency in most intricate ways, both setting up nearly insurmountable barriers but also providing specific opportunities for refugees.
Although the low-wage employment sector has enlarged over the past 20 years in the context of pronounced flexibility in restructured labor markets, gender differences in low-wage employment have declined in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In this article, the authors examine reasons for declining gender inequalities, and most notably concentrate on explanations for the closing gender gap in low-wage employment risks. In addition, they identify differences and similarities among the German-speaking countries. Based on regression techniques and decomposition analyses (1996-2016), the authors find significantly decreasing labor market risks for the female workforce. Detailed analysis reveals that (1) the concrete positioning in the labor market shows greater importance in explaining declining gender differences compared to personal characteristics. (2) The changed composition of the labor markets has prevented the low-wage sector from increasing even more in general and works in favor of the female workforce and their low-wage employment risks in particular.
Vienna's resilience
(2022)
This chapter provides a synthesis of the volume, bringing together the aspects that characterise each of the single policy domains analysed throughout and highlighting their synergic effects on the output. In particular, it addresses the dualisation tendencies between ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ in Vienna’s urban transformation in the changing dimensions of social stratification, on the one hand; and the mechanisms of institutional resilience, on the other hand. Despite the inclusive welfare system, emerging vulnerabilities currently pose new challenges for Vienna’s redistributive capacity in the key policy areas. Existing institutional arrangements and their regulatory capacities are a good starting point to answer the question: is Vienna still a just city?
Großstädte sind in den letzten Jahrzehnten einem massiven wirtschaftlichen und gesellschaftlichen Wandel ausgesetzt, der die städtische Sozialstruktur einmal mehr entscheidend veränderte. Basierend auf Erkenntnissen der Stadtsoziologie sowie der Arbeitsmarkt- und Migrationsforschung untersucht der vorliegende Beitrag diese Entwicklung am Beispiel Wiens. Dabei wird insbesondere der These einer zunehmenden sozialen Polarisierung in Städten nachgegangen. Es zeigt sich, dass auch in Wien die Mittelschichten im letzten Vierteljahrhundert geschrumpft sind. Ergebnisse aus multinomialen logistischen Regressionsmodellen und Dekompositionsanalysen weisen zudem darauf hin, dass Veränderungen am Arbeitsmarkt (z. B. zunehmende Verbreitung von Teilzeit) und in der Bevölkerungszusammensetzung (z. B. Herkunft von Zuwanderern) zu diesem Wandel beigetragen haben, während das steigende Bildungsniveau der Stadtbevölkerung ein noch stärkeres Schrumpfen der Mittelschicht verhindert hat.
The gendered division of occupations is a persistent characteristic of the Austrian labour market. Furthermore, we can observe more flexible employment biographies, where sequential employment episodes and occupational transitions become an important part. On this account, the article argues that both gender inequalities and labour market movements need to be examined simultaneously. The authors therefore analyse gender-(un)typed horizontal occupational transitions and their influence on the vertical positioning, based on the Austrian Micro Census (2008–2018). The results reveal that gender-typed occupational transitions are regaining relevance and that the gender effect is reversing in that women increasingly leave gender-untyped occupations. The findings also demonstrate that this gender-typed horizontal movement yields a significant decline in occupational status for women, which even increases when women become mothers. Based on their models the authors find no negative effects for fathers.
This paper seeks to address the relationship between social capital and perceived social origin in contemporary Austria. While the concept of social capital has been widely adopted in social sciences, so far research on the (pre)structured shape of social capital by social origin is scarce. Our aim is to close this gap. Therefore, we use the network-as-capital approach by following the “position generator” and apply latent class analysis (LCA) and path modelling on the basis of the 2018 Austrian Social Survey. The dataset comprises a representative sample of the Austrian residential population aged 18 and older. Our findings show that the diversity of social capital, and access to networks of people in more highly ranked positions is strongly influenced by one’s social background. The higher respondents assess their social origin, the greater the probability of being in this type of network. Furthermore, education and occupation have effects on membership in a class-specific network.
Singles in the city
(2021)
More people than ever are living in cities, and in these cities, more and more people are living alone. Using the example of Vienna, this paper investigates the subjective well-being of single households in the city. Previous research has identified positive and negative aspects of living alone (e.g., increased freedom vs. missing social embeddedness). We compare single households with other household types using data from the Viennese Quality of Life Survey (1995–2018). In our analysis, we consider overall life satisfaction as well as selected dimensions of subjective wellbeing (i.e., housing, financial situation, main activity, family, social contacts, leisure time). Our findings show that the subjective well-being of single households in Vienna is high and quite stable over time. While single households are found to have lower life satisfaction than two-adult households, this result is mainly explained by singles reporting lower satisfaction with family life. Compared to households with children, singles are more satisfied with their financial situation, leisure time and housing, which helps to offset the negative consequences of missing family ties (in particular with regard to single parents).
It is a relatively new phenomenon in the context of urban development in Buenos Aires that citizens from the middle class have been increasingly claiming empowerment in local decision making. In this paper, we analyze the spatial-political outcome of protests against high-rise construction and demolitions of the urban heritage in Buenos Aires. Based on a frame analysis, the results of the paper show that the citizens’ initiatives under study have been able to incorporate several key issues into the agenda of the public debate: the relevance of the urban heritage, the negative effects of market-oriented municipal politics, and deficient citizen participation. Moreover, the controversies surrounding high-rise constructions in the 2000s and early 2010s disclose a clear degree of politicization. A permanent struggle for primacy in municipal policy models has been sparked, in which victory and defeat alternate, and attention is drawn to more fundamental societal issues beyond urban development
Der abschließende Beitrag des multidisziplinären Sammelbands zielt darauf ab Perspektiven und Befunde zur Mittelschicht in Österreich aus der Soziologie, der Ökonomie, den Politikwissenschaften und der Zeitgeschichte zusammenzufassen und Verknüpfungen zwischen unterschiedlichen Analysen und Disziplinen zu benennen. Im Ergebnis liefert diese systematisierende Analyse der Beiträge einen umfassenden status quo der österreichischen Mitte in Hinblick auf Bildungserträge, Religionsausübung, Solidaritäts- und Abgrenzungsprozesse, Wahlverhalten, Vertrauen in Institutionen, psychische Gesundheit, Geschlechterungleichheit und vieles mehr. Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Diskussion und werden neun Thesen zur jüngsten und zukünftigen Entwicklung der unter Druck stehenden gesellschaftlichen Mitte formulieren. Diese Thesen können als Beitrag zu einer laufenden gesellschaftspolitischen Debatte aber auch als Anregung für weitere sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung verstanden werden.
Das E-Book enthält das 10. Kapitel »Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstruktur« von Steffen Mau und Roland Verwiebe, das in die Sozialstrukturanalyse sowie bedeutende soziologische Ungleichheitstheorien einführt. Es behandelt die historischen Bedingungen von Ungleichheit und stellt Grundkategorien der Sozialstrukturforschung wie Klasse, Schicht, Stand und Milieu vor. Zusätzlich enthalten sind das Gesamtinhaltsverzeichnis und Vorwort sowie der vollständige Anhang des »Lehrbuchs der Soziologie«, darunter ein Zusatzkapitel zum Verfassen sozialwissenschaftlicher Arbeiten sowie ein umfangreiches Gesamtglossar soziologischer Begriffe.
Die schrumpfende Mittelschicht ist nicht nur in der Öffentlichkeit ein vieldiskutierter Themenbereich. Eine Vielzahl an wissenschaftlichen Fachdisziplinen setzt sich aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven mit der Mittelschicht im Kontext des Wandels von Schichtungsgefügen auseinander. Während die gesellschaftliche Mitte in Deutschland ein etabliertes Forschungsgebiet ist, liegen für Österreich hingegen bislang kaum Studien vor. Vor diesem Hintergrund vereint der Sammelband konzeptionelle und empirische Beiträge zur österreichischen Mittelschicht aus Soziologie, Politikwissenschaften, Staatswissenschaft, und Zeitgeschichte. Ziel ist die umfassende multidisziplinäre Darstellung des Status Quo der Mittelschicht in Österreich. Die Beiträge in diesem Sammelband bieten einen Überblick über historische Perspektiven, unterschiedliche Theorietraditionen, sowie gegenwärtige empirische Befunde und sozialpolitische Analysen.
Aktuelle gesellschaftliche Dynamiken führen zu vielfältigen Veränderungen in den Lebensbedingungen und Wertorientierungen in Österreich. Neben kontinuierlichen Entwicklungen zeigen sich bei den Wertorientierungen auch neue Tendenzen im Spannungsfeld zwischen Tradition und Neuorientierung. Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender sozialer Ungleichheit werden Wandlungsprozesse bei Arbeit und Erwerbstätigkeit, Bildungschancen, Geschlechterrollen, Partnerschaft und Familie, Politik sowie Lebensqualität thematisiert. Diese Trends werden auf Grundlage repräsentativer Umfragen zwischen 1986 und 2016 dargestellt und diskutiert.
Werte sind nicht nur in der Öffentlichkeit ein vieldiskutiertes Thema. Diverse wissenschaftliche Fachdisziplinen setzen sich aus unterschiedlicher Perspektive mit Werten sowie mit dem Konzept der Wertebildung auseinander. Vor diesem Hintergrund vereint der Sammelband theoretische und methodische Ansätze aus Philosophie, Erziehungswissenschaft, Politologie, Theologie, Kommunikationswissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft und Soziologie. Ziel ist die Darstellung inter- und transdisziplinärer Verbindungslinien und Differenzen innerhalb der Forschung zu Werten und Wertebildung. Die Beiträge in diesem Band bieten einen aktuellen Überblick über verschiedene Theorietraditionen, diskutieren aber auch relevante empirische Befunde zu Werten und Wertebildung. Allen Ansätzen gemeinsam ist die Frage danach, was unter Werten verstanden werden kann und wie und unter welchen Umständen sie sich herausbilden.
This study aims to compare online vs. offline flirting and dating behavior using the example of the location-based real-time dating (LBRTD) app Tinder, a popular dating platform. We focus on persons' self-descriptions like self-esteem, social desirability, state social anxiety, and adjustment behavior on Tinder and the perceived data privacy of the app. Data was gathered using a survey approach with Tinder users reporting their behavior in offline and online settings. The comparison between offline and online behavior was made using Response Surface Analysis. The results suggest that the different conditions of the natural and digital worlds do not influence the individual's behavior and emotional perception. The results are analyzed and discuss gender, age, motivation to use the app, and the user's relationship status.
Justice as relationality
(2020)
By introducing a notion of socio-ecological justice, this article aims to deepen the relationship between environment and justice, which has already been firmly established by environmental justice movements and scholarship. Based on extensive fieldwork on local community struggles against small-scale run-of river hydropower plants in Turkey, it expands the justice frame of environmental justice scholarship by going beyond the established conceptions of environmental justice as distribution - of environmental hazards and benefits, recognition and representation. Drawing on ethnographical fieldwork conducted in the East Black Sea region of Turkey, the article introduces the notion of socio-ecological justice to translate the relationality of the social and the ecological, of human life and non-human world, to the vocabulary of justice. It aims to extend the strictly humanist borders of social justice by maintaining that our intrinsic and intimate relations with the non-human world are an essential part of our well-being, and central to our needs to pursue a fair, decent life. It also seeks to contribute to the broader debate to facilitate a 'progressive composition' o f a common, more-than-human world.
Many prediction tasks can be done based on users’ trace data. In this paper, we explored convergent thinking as a personality-related attribute and its relation to features gathered in interactive and non-interactive tasks of an online course. This is an under-utilized attribute that could be used for adapting online courses according to the creativity level to enhance the motivation of learners. Therefore, we used the logfile data of a 60 minutes Moodle course with N=128 learners, combined with the Remote Associates Test (RAT). We explored the trace data and found a weak correlation between interactive tasks and the RAT score, which was the highest considering the overall dataset. We trained a Random Forest Regressor to predict convergent thinking based on the trace data and analyzed the feature importance. The result has shown that the interactive tasks have the highest importance in prediction, but the accuracy is very low. We discuss the potential for personalizing online courses and address further steps to improve the applicability.
Expanding modeling notations
(2021)
Creativity is a common aspect of business processes and thus needs a proper representation through process modeling notations. However, creative processes constitute highly flexible process elements, as new and unforeseeable outcome is developed. This presents a challenge for modeling languages. Current methods representing creative-intensive work are rather less able to capture creative specifics which are relevant to successfully run and manage these processes. We outline the concept of creative-intensive processes and present an example from a game design process in order to derive critical process aspects relevant for its modeling. Six aspects are detected, with first and foremost: process flexibility, as well as temporal uncertainty, experience, types of creative problems, phases of the creative process and individual criteria. By first analyzing what aspects of creative work modeling notations already cover, we further discuss which modeling extensions need to be developed to better represent creativity within business processes. We argue that a proper representation of creative work would not just improve the management of those processes, but can further enable process actors to more efficiently run these creative processes and adjust them to better fit to the creative needs.
How games spoil creativity
(2020)
The demand for a creative workforce is every growing and effective measures to improve individual creativity are searched for. This study analyzes the possibility to use games as a prime for a creative mindset. Two short entertainment games, plus a no-game-comparison condition were set up in three versions of an online-study, along with two creativity tasks and scales to assess the individual creative mindset (fixed-vs-growth, creative self-efficacy and affect). Results indicate priming effects of the games, but in the opposite intended direction: gaming diminished the creative test performances. Those playing the games reported more ideas in the open-ended creative problem task, but those answers were of less quality and they solved less closed-problem items compared to those not playing. An impact of further mindset differences could be ruled out.
Consumer education
(2021)
Die (fast) vergessene Mauer
(2018)
This article argues that non-ideal theory is distinctive in its use of a certain methodology which is prior to specific topics (such as injustice, oppression, etc.), grounded in the idea of socially situ-ated knowledge, and able to address ideological situatedness. Drawing on standpoint epistemology, we show that one’s social position within given power structures has implications for knowledge acquisition and that being in a vulnerable or marginalised position can be advantageous to knowledge acquisition. Following ideology critique, we argue that both marginalised and powerful social positions are embedded within a given ideology. As ideology is more than a mere set of attitudes or beliefs that social agents endorse or resist, situated agents and theo-rists cannot develop normative criteria that are not themselves situated. Hence, non-ideal theory has to be equipped with methods that are likely to make this situatedness visible. We close by presenting some diverse methods that already do so.
This paper aims to contribute to exploring the design possibilities of robots for use in human-robot interaction. In an experiment, we investigate the influence of the human's personality and the robot's design, especially its humanization, on its acceptance. We use the Almere model, the Big 5 personality traits, and the anthropomorphic gestalt variants to build the foundation for our investigation. The assumption that an anthropomorphized robot variant would, in principle, be preferred to the standard variant when a natural choice is enforced could not be evidenced in our experiment. This allows for the interpretation that anthropomorphism does not necessarily lead to intentional perception and, consequently, does not guarantee that it can automatically generate acceptance.
Dem Mitarbeiter zu Diensten
(2021)
Die Weiterbildung und Qualifizierung der Mitarbeiter sind zentrale Erfolgsfaktoren des digitalen Wandels. Die zentrale Herausforderung besteht darin, diese maßgeschnitten anzubieten sowie notwendige Akzeptanz nicht vorauszusetzen, sondern ebenso als Zielgröße anzusehen. Dies geschieht jedoch nur, wenn die Mitarbeiter als Partner gesehen werden, deren Bedürfnisse und Verständnis nachhaltig berücksichtigt werden. Dieser Beitrag schlägt vor diesem Hintergrund einen Ansatz vor, Weiterbildung als Personennahe Dienstleistung zu realisieren. Dafür wird zuerst ein skizzenhafter Überblick über grundlegende Kompetenzanforderungen des digitalen Wandels gegeben. Danach wird die aktuelle Situation betrieblicher Weiterbildung in der digitalen Transformation beleuchtet. Hierzu wurde in einem Zeitraum von sechs Monaten im Rahmen einer quantitativen Untersuchung erhoben, wie Beschäftigte die digitale Transformation ihres Unternehmens und daraus resultierende Bedarfe betrieblicher Weiterbildung wahrnehmen. Darauf basierend werden drei aktuelle Paradoxe abgeleitet, die mit einer Durchführung von Weiterbildung als Personennahe Dienstleistung verhindert werden können. Empfehlungen und Lösungsansätze werden hierzu diskutiert und weiterer Forschungsbedarf abgeleitet.
Escape Rooms
(2020)
Anfänge der Globalisierung
(2018)
Prozessorientierte Didaktik
(2015)
n diesem Beitrag finden Sie ein von mir entwickeltes Konzept zum Lehren und Lernen in der Schule1. Ich nenne dieses Konzept prozessorientierte Didaktik. Ich habe die Hoffnung, gemeinsam mit Ihnen als Lehrer oder Lehramtsstudierende, aber auch mit Eltern, Wissenschaftlern, Experten für Bildung und Schülern, einen Beitrag zur Verbesserung unserer Schulpraxis zu leisten. Dass Schule sich bereits im Wandel befindet und wunderbar gelingen kann, sieht man beispielsweise an den Preisträgern des Deutschen Schulpreises. Leider sind diese Schulen immer noch in der Minderheit. Dieses Verhältnis umzukehren ist eine unserer größten Bildungsaufgaben für die nächsten Jahrzehnte.
Und wer spült ab?
(2020)
Digitalisation Labs
(2021)
The federal system has long been seen as one of the biggest obstacles to the digital transformation of the German state. With the enactment of the Online Access Act (OZG), a law that obliges all federal levels to offer their administrative services digitally in a joint portal network by the end of 2022, a new arena for multilevel collaboration has developed in Germany; the so-called digitalisation labs. The labs are intended to bring together representatives of all federal levels, external actors and citizens to promote problem-oriented policy design and the development of innovative policy solutions. Following a neo-institutionalist perspective and using the analytical concepts of multilevel governance and problem-solving, this paper investigates how the institutional settings, internal dynamics and actors’ composition influence policy design processes in the labs. The empirical analysis is built on a qualitative case study of two digitalisation labs in the policy field ‘Immigration and Emigration', and based on ten expert interviews as well as an extensive document analysis. The paper concludes that, by promoting problem-solving, the institutional settings as well as the organisational design and actors’ constellations have influenced the policy design process in several ways.
Durch den Deutschen Rechnungslegungs Standard 20 und die sog. CorporateSocial Responsibility-Richtlinie sind nichtfinanzielle Kennzahlen im Rahmen der Unternehmenssteuerung zunehmend in den Fokus gerückt. Trotz dieser regulatorischen Signale etabliert sich deren Nutzung in der Praxis nur langsam. Im vorliegenden Beitrag wird daher ein Überblick über die Bedeutung, die Hintergründeund den Stand der Implementierung nicht finanzieller Kennzahlen in der Unternehmenssteuerung im Allgemeinen und insbesondere im Hinblick auf das Steuerungssystem der Vorstandsvergütung gegeben.
Das Praxissemester als praxisbezogenes Studienelement zur Förderung von Professions- und Reflexionskompetenzen ist in immer mehr Bundesländern integraler Bestandteil der Lehramtsausbildung. Eine zentrale Herausforderung ist hierbei die gelingende Integration von universitärer Theorie und schulischer Praxis. Das Forschende Lernen kann hierzu einen wichtigen Beitrag leisten, indem Herausforderungen aus der unterrichtlichen Praxis einem forschenden Blick unterzogen und mit wissenschaftlichen Methoden bearbeitet werden. Dies soll nicht zuletzt die Reflexionskompetenz der angehenden Lehrerinnen und Lehrer fördern.
Ökonomische Bildung digital
(2021)
This paper argues that land and resource rights are often essential in overcoming colonial inequality and devaluation of indigenous populations and cultures. It thereby criticizes global welfare egalitarians that promote the abolition of national sovereignty over resources in the name of increased equality. The paper discusses two ways in which land and resource rights contribute to decolonization and the eradication of the associated inequality. First, it proposes that land and resource rights have acquired a status-conferring function for (formerly) colonized peoples so that possession of full personhood and relational equality is partially expressed through the possession of land and resource rights. Second, it suggests that successful internal decolonization depends on access to and control over land and resources, especially for indigenous peoples.
Da Sparkassen einen öffentlichen Auftrag erfüllen müssen, der ihr Bestehen gesetzlich legitimiert, zeichnet sich ihr Corporate-Governance-System durch Besonderheiten aus. Diese Besonderheiten wirken sich nicht nur auf die Vorstandstätigkeit, sondern auch auf die Tätigkeit der Kontrollorgane aus, welche eine nachhaltige Erfüllung des öffentlichen Auftrags prüfen und gewährleisten sollen. Nach einer Vorstellung des Corporate-Governance-Systems beschäftigt sich der Beitrag daher mit der Frage, ob und wie allgemeine Herausforderungen, die durch das System bedingt sind, sowie besondere Herausforderungen, die sich aus der langanhaltenden Niedrigzinspolitik ergeben, die Effektivität der Kontrollen beeinflussen.
In the time of digitalization the demand for organizational change is rising and demands ways to cope with fundamental changes on the organizational as well as individual level. As a basis, learning and forgetting mechanisms need to be understood in order to guide a change process efficiently and successfully. Our research aims to get a better understanding of individual differences and mechanisms in the change context by performing an experiment where individuals learn and later re-learn a complex production process using a simulation setting. The individual’s performance, as well as retentivity and prior knowledge is assessed. Our results show that higher retentivity goes along with better learning and forgetting performances. Prior knowledge did not reveal such relation to the learning and forgetting performances. The influence of age and gender is discussed in detail.
Personalauswahl
(2009)
Process analysis usually focuses only on single and selected processes. It is either existent processes that are recorded and analysed or reference processes that are implemented. So far no evident effort has been put into generalising specific process aspects into patterns and comparing those patterns with regard to their efficiency and effectiveness. This article focuses on the combination of dynamic and holistic analytical elements in enterprise architectures. Our goal is to outline an approach to analyse the development of business processes in a cyclical matter and demonstrate this approach based on an existent modelling language. We want to show that organisational learning can derive from the systematic analysis of past and existent processes from which patterns of successful problem solving can be deducted.
Die Bedeutung der Ressource Wissen für die Unternehmensentwicklung ist heutzutage unumstritten. Um wettbewerbsfähig bleiben zu können, müssen Unternehmen die Erzeugung, Teilung und systematische Nutzung von Wissen fördern. Dabei stehen sowohl die individuelle Wissensbasis (und damit jeder Mitarbeiter) als auch die kollektive Wissensbasis (und damit das ganze Unternehmen) im Vordergrund. Der Faktor Kultur gewinnt in diesem Zusammenhang zunehmend an Bedeutung: Er beeinflusst alle drei Ebenen des Wissensmanagements - Mensch, Organisation und Technologie. Neben den Besonderheiten der Organisationskultur und der Kultur unterschiedlicher Mitarbeitergruppen sind in international agierenden Unternehmen auch die spezifischen Merkmale der jeweiligen Landeskultur zu berücksichtigen. Gemeinsam mit dem Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik und Electronic Government der Universität Potsdam hat acatech im Mai 2008 einen Workshop mit Vertretern aus Wirtschaft, Politik und Wissenschaft zum Umgang mit Wissen im interkulturellen Vergleich veranstaltet. Vor diesem Hintergrund entstand der acatech diskutiert-Band "Umgang mit Wissen im interkulturellen Vergleich - Beiträge aus Forschung und Unternehmenspraxis". Darin enthalten sind Beiträge, die u. a. danach fragen, welche wechselseitigen Beziehungen zwischen Technik und Kultur bestehen, inwieweit Experten- und Wissensnetzwerke als interkulturelles Instrument zum Umgang mit Wissen geeignet sind, wie Unternehmen ihre Mitarbeiter auf Auslandseinsätze und die Begegnung mit fremden Kulturen vorbereiten können und welche Rolle Kommunikation als Methode des Wissenstransfers spielt.
Die Erfüllung sicherheitsrelevanter Aufgaben, gerade im Bereich der Wasserversorgung, erfolgt immer vor dem Hintergrund des Schutzes der Kritischen Infrastruktur selbst und eines effektiven Bevölkerungsschutzes. Daher erfordert die Organisation des Schutzes eine über die betriebsbezogene Sichtweise hinausgehende überorganisatorische Betrachtung im Gesamtkontext zunehmender Verflechtung und Abhängigkeiten der Organisationen. Die vorliegende Broschüre richtet sich daher insbesondere an kleine und mittlere Betreiber Kritischer Infrastrukturen, insbesondere im Bereich der Wasserversorgung. Diese sollen in die Lage versetzt werden, eine anforderungsgerechte, skalierbare und vor allem ressourceneffiziente Schutzkonzepterstellung durchführen zu können.
Aufgrund ihrer komplexitätsreduzierenden Eigenschaften sind Management-Control-Systeme (MCS) ein wichtiges Instrument für die Professionalisierung vonStart-ups. MCS können helfen, Unsicherheit zu vermeiden und das Insolvenzri-siko reduzieren. Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Einblick in die Verwendung von MCS indeutschen Start-ups und untersucht ausgewählte Einflussfaktoren auf die Einfüh-rung von MCS.
Ein Meer voller Fische
(2020)
Nachhaltiges Handeln ist ein bedeutsames Leitziel des 21. Jahrhunderts. Als Bildungsziel wird es in Deutschland meist als übergreifende Bildungsaufgabe definiert, die in die einzelnen Fachdisziplinen zu integrieren ist. Der Beitrag leistet dies für die Ernährungsbildung und konkretisiert die theoretische Konzeption mithilfe eines Planspiels als Beispiel für die didaktisch-methodische Umsetzung.
This paper investigates whether and how social-psychological mechanisms, namely reciprocity, demographic similarity, and similar experiences, affect CEO compensation packages with respect to the levels of total, fixed, and short- and mid-term compensation and the variable proportion of the compensation package. We use evidence from Germany as it is considered a prototype of a two-tier board system. Given the primary roles of both the CEO and the chair of the supervisory board, we especially highlight social-psychological mechanisms in the process leading to the final compensation package. Using a hand-collected sample of non-financial constituents of the German HDAX, we find that reciprocity can lead to a compensation package that is more favorable for the CEO. Results on similarity are ambivalent such that the effects of similarity on CEO compensation—both positive and negative—may depend on the dimension of similarity. Finally, the chair’s CEO experience, both inside and outside the focal company, also plays an essential role in shaping CEO compensation. More specifically, CEO experience in general is associated with more favorable compensation. However, having a chair that has been CEO at the focal company correlates with less favorable compensation packages except for when the CEO has also been recruited internally.
Ökonomische Bildung für Alle
(2020)
Zielperspektive ökonomischer Bildung ist die Selbstbestimmung, Mündigkeit und verantwortliche Mitgestaltung der Menschen in den verschiedensten durch Wirtschaft geprägten Lebensbereichen. Da Jede*r in ökonomisch geprägten Lebenssituationen handelt, ergibt sich in besonderer Weise die Notwendigkeit ökonomischer Bildung für Alle. Der vorliegende Artikel stellt den aktuellen Forschungsstand der ökonomischen Bildung im Bereich der sonderpädagogischen und der fachspezifischen Perspektive dar, zeigt deren Schnittmengen auf und leitet Herausforderungen für eine inklusive fachdidaktische Konzeption ab.
NiB-Scout
(2020)
Mit dem Projekt NiB-Scout soll die ausbildungsorientierte Verankerung von Nachhaltigkeitsaspekten im Bäckerhandwerk geleistet werden. In dem Beitrag werden das domänenspezifische Nachhaltigkeitsverständnis, der damit verbundene Kompetenzansatz sowie der methodisch-didaktische Ansatz anhand eines Best Practice Beispiels vorgestellt. (DIPF/Orig.)
This paper aims to investigate the possibility to include aspects of forgetting into business process modeling. To date, there is no possibility to model forgotten or to-be- forgotten elements beyond the mere deletion. On a first attempt, we focus on the individual level and model knowledge transformation within a single person. Using the Knowledge Model Description Language, we propose ways to include different forms of forgetting into the realm of modeling tools. Using data from an experimental setting within an assembly line production environment, the usability of those new modeling tools is tested. So far, the applicability of modeling features for forgetting on the individual level is mostly restricted to a research context. However, clear requirements to transfer the tools onto the team- and organizational level are set out.
Sex. Die meisten von uns haben ihn. Mal schlecht, mal gut, manchmal phänomenal. Die wenigsten denken lange drüber nach. Oder reden offen drüber. Dabei ist gar nicht so klar, was Sex eigentlich gut macht. Befriedigung? Spaß? Gemeinsamkeit? Interesse an emotionaler Bindung und Stabilität? Reproduktion? Und wann ist Sex schlecht? Oder nicht nur schlecht, sondern sogar moralisch problematisch? Hilkje Hänel zeigt, dass es gar nicht so einfach ist, zwischen problematischem Sex (weil z.B. erzwungen oder ohne Zustimmung) und gutem Sex klar zu unterscheiden. Denn viele sexuelle Handlungen, die wir vornehmen, sind zwar nicht gut, aber auch nicht moralisch problematisch. Manchmal sind wir vielleicht nicht ganz bei der Sache oder würden eigentlich gerade lieber etwas anderes machen. Manchmal müssen wir uns gegenseitig oder sogar uns selbst noch besser kennenlernen. Hänel zufolge gibt es eine große Grauzone zwischen gutem, schlechtem und moralisch problematischem Sex, wobei es häufig vor allem auf den Kontext und unsere Kommunikation ankommt. Auf der Basis aktueller Wissenschaft und medialer Bewegungen wie #MeToo verteidigt Hänel ihre Ansichten gegen die wichtigsten Einwände und argumentiert für mehr Respekt im Bett.
The article proposes that climate change makes enduring colonial injustices and structures visible. It focuses on the imposition and dominance of colonial concepts of land and self-determination on Indigenous peoples in settler states. It argues that if the dominance of these colonial frameworks remains unaddressed, the progressing climate change will worsen other colonial injustices, too. Specifically, Indigenous self-determination capabilities will be increasingly undermined, and Indigenous peoples will experience the loss of what they understand as relevant land from within their own ontologies of land. The article holds that even if settler states strive to repair colonial injustices, these efforts will be unsuccessful if climate change occurs and decolonization is pursued within the framework of a settler colonial ontology of land. Therefore, the article suggests, decolonization of the ontologies of land and concepts of self-determination is a precondition for a just response to climate change.
Differenzierungsheft
(2022)
Fit für die Prüfung?
(2020)
Bildung zur Selbständigkeit
(2018)
Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick zum Forschungsdesign und den Ergebnissen einer bundesweiten Querschnittsuntersuchung (Online-Survey) mit Wirtschaft unterrichtenden Lehrpersonen (N=593) zu Fortbildungsangeboten im Feld der ökonomischen Bildung sowie deren Einstellungen dazu. Die erhobenen geringen Fortbildungsteilnahmen, die damit verbundenen Schwierigkeiten beim Auffinden passender Veranstaltungsthemen und -formate sowie artikulierte formal-organisatorische Wünsche der befragten Wirtschaftslehrkräfte werden dargestellt und vor dem Hintergrund bisheriger Erkenntnisse zur Wirksamkeit von Fortbildungen erörtert. Neben übergeordneten thematischen Fortbildungsbedarfen im Kontext der digitalen Transformation werden zudem etwaige Fortbildungsschwerpunkte unterschiedlicher Bedarfsgruppen (z. B. Berufs- und Quereinsteiger, fachfremd unterrichtende Lehrpersonen) anhand deren Selbsteinschätzung zum Wissen in Themenfeldern der ökonomischen Bildung diskutiert. Außerdem werden aus den Erkenntnissen abgeleitete konzeptionelle Prämissen für ein erprobungs- und anwendungsorientiertes Online-Fortbildungsangebot zum Lehren und Lernen mit digitalen Medien sowie ein darauf bezogenes zweites qualitatives Forschungsvorhaben als anknüpfendes Projekt beschrieben.
Der vorliegende Aufsatz widmet sich der Frage nach einem fachspezifischen Beitrag der ökonomischen Bildung zur Wissenschaftspropädeutik. Hierzu wird dieser Begriff zunächst definiert und u. a. von didaktischen Konzepten wie der Studien- und der Wissenschaftsorientierung abgegrenzt. Außerdem werden mit ihr eng verbundene Lehr-Lern-Formen wie das Forschende bzw. das Entdeckende Lernen als lerntheoretische Kontextualisierung beschrieben sowie wesentliche Kritik an Wissenschaftspropädeutik als didaktischem Prinzip diskutiert. Anknüpfend an das wissenschaftspropädeutisch fachlich-akzentuierte Modell von Hahn (2008) sowie für die ökonomische Bildung besonders relevante Formen des Perspektivwechsels von Loerwald (2008, 2017) werden grundlegende Überlegungen zu einem fachlichen Umgang mit Mehrperspektivität dargestellt. Hierzu werden drei fachlich akzentuierte wissenschaftspropädeutische Kompetenzbereiche für ökonomisches Lehren und Lernen beschrieben: mit ökonomischer Perspektivität umgehen, differenziert ökonomisch Urteilen sowie sich über Ökonomik und Ökonomie verständigen.
Die Sorge um die Vorsorge
(2018)
Beruf Untnehmer*in?
(2019)
Wenn von Beruflicher Orientierung oder auch Berufs- und Studienorientierung die Rede ist, dann werden diese Begriffe in der Regel in zweifacher Weise recht eng definiert. Zum einen wird überwiegend der Übergang von der Schule in den Beruf fokussiert. Die Berufliche Orientierung als Teil des lebenslangen Lernens im Sinne einer umfassenden berufsbiografischen Gestaltungskompetenz wird eher vernachlässigt. Zum anderen wird – soweit zu beobachten – fast ausschließlich die Perspektive der Arbeitnehmerinnen und Arbeitnehmer thematisiert und die unternehmerische Selbstständigkeit als Form der Erwerbstätigkeit bleibt häufig unberücksichtigt. An diesem zweiten Punkt setzt der vorliegende Beitrag an. Es werden relevante Begrifflichkeiten erörtert, die Engführung der traditionellen Berufsorientierungskonzepte auf die abhängige Beschäftigung herausgearbeitet und auf der Basis der Literatur zum Entrepreneurship und zur Entrepreneurship Education Ansatzpunkte für ein erweitertes Konzept zur Beruflichen Orientierung entwickelt.
Das "weiße Gold" in Preußen
(2018)
Social Entrepreneurship
(2018)
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.
Staatsschulden
(2021)
Sollten Staaten sich verschulden und wenn ja, wie hoch? Beim Thema Staatsschulden scheiden sich die Geister. Das Themenblatt führt in die Grundlagen ein, gibt einen Überblick zur aktuellen Debatte und stellt zur Diskussion, wie mit der Staatsverschuldung umzugehen ist. Wie hoch darf sich ein Staat verschulden? Darüber gibt es seit langem eine rege Debatte, die durch die Corona-Pandemie eine neue Wendung bekommen hat: Kam Deutschland über mehrere Jahre hinweg ohne neue Schulden aus, stieg die Kreditaufnahme in den Pandemiejahren 2020 und 20/21 erheblich an. Die Stimmen, die am starren Festhalten der Schuldenbremse zweifeln, werden lauter. Und für Jugendliche stellt sich die Frage: Welche Auswirkungen haben heutige finanzpolitische Entscheidungen auf meine Zukunft?
Arbeitswelt 4.0
(2022)
Haushalten als ökonomisches Prinzip lässt sich nicht auf den privaten Raum beschränken, sondern ist weit darüber hinaus in ganz verschiedenen Bereichen der Marktwirtschaft beheimatet. Im Kern bezeichnet Haushalten jede Art von planvoller Tätigkeit mit dem Ziel, knappe Mittel oder wirtschaftliche Güter bestmöglich zu nutzen. Damit findet Haushalten im Kleinen wie im Großen statt. Es ist eine Konstante, die allen wirtschaftlichen Handlungen der Akteure und ihrer Beziehungen zugrunde liegt. Das umfasst Einzelpersonen und Privathaushalte genauso wie Wirtschaftsunternehmen und Nationalstaaten.
Schülerinnen und Schülern diese komplexen Zusammenhänge anschaulich und alltagsnah zu vermitteln, ist eine verantwortungsvolle Aufgabe. Mit dieser Ausgabe von Unterricht Wirtschaft + Politik erhalten Sie Unterrichtsvorschläge und Arbeitsmaterialien, die Sie dabei unterstützen.
Homeoffice, 24/7-Erreichbarkeit, VR-Brillen, flach hierarchisierte Projektarbeit in internationalen Teams – ist das die Arbeitswelt der Zukunft? Sind wir bereit für den Abschied vom Büroalltag, von Kantine, Allzweckteppich und Philodendron – aber eben auch vom Schwatz mit den Kollegen in der Kaffeepause, von sozialer Anbindung und Mitbestimmung?
Die Methode des forschenden Lernens appeliert an den natürlichen Forscher- und Entdeckergeist der Lernenden und spornt sie dazu an, das Heft des Handelns selbst in die Hand zu nehmen. Die Schülerinnen und Schüler entwickeln eigene Fragestellungen, sammeln Daten in der Praxis und werten diese anschließend aus. Im Zuge des Forschens und Entdeckens wird der Funke der Neugier neu entfacht.
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.
Verbraucherbildung ist bundesweit vielfältig in curricularen Vorgaben verankert. Fachfremde Lehrpersonen benötigen Professionalisierungsangebote, um die Verbraucherbildung
als Querschnittsaufgabe in ihren Fächern implementieren zu können. Erkenntnisse aus der Professionalisierungsforschung werden daher im Beitrag in Bezug auf das cLEVER-Projekt
zusammengetragen, um sie für Fortbildungsangebote nutzbar zu machen.
Die Regierung des Waldes
(2022)
Wie verändert sich die Beziehung von Gesellschaften zu ihrer natürlichen Umgebung über die Zeit? Wie werden natürliche Systeme »in Wert« gesetzt? Und welchen Einfluss hat das auf die von uns so bezeichnete »Natur«? Am Beispiel eines Korkeichenwaldes in Marokko geht Juliane Schumacher diesen Fragen nach. Unter Bezugnahme auf Ansätze der Politischen Ökologie, der Science and Technology Studies und Foucaults Gouvernementalitätsanalyse zeigt sie, wie sich seit der Kolonialzeit die Bewirtschaftung des Waldes verändert hat. Dabei wird deutlich, wie Programme zur Integration der Wälder in globale Finanz- und Kohlenstoffmärkte zu neuen, experimentellen Formen der »Regierung des Waldes« führen.
Aus den unendlich erscheinenden Berufswahloptionen die für sich richtige zu finden, ist ein Prozess, der neben Informationen auch Urteilsfähigkeit voraussetzt. Schüler*innen müssen Kriterien entwickeln, die sie ihrer Entscheidung für Ausbildung oder Studium zugrunde legen. Wie kann mit forschendem Lernen in der reflexiven Berufsorientierung das dafür nötige Reflexionspotenzial gefördert werden?
Schülerfirmen sind eine verbreitete Unterrichtsmethode allgemeinbildender Schulen. Trotz ihrer Verbreitung und zunehmenden curricularen Verankerung ist der Forschungsstand bislang unbefriedigend. Ihr Potenzial für die ökonomische Bildung entfalten Schülerfirmen, wenn sie mit Beruflicher Orientierung und Entrepreneurship Education verbunden werden. Über die Wechselwirkungen zwischen diesen Aspekten ergeben sich zahlreiche handlungsorientierte Lehr-Lern-Situationen, mithilfe derer sowohl ökonomische als auch überfachliche Kompetenzförderung realisiert werden kann. Wesentliche Gestaltungsperspektiven werden im Beitrag identifiziert. Um die Fachlichkeit von Schülerfirmen sicher zu stellen, ist beispielsweise neben der Einbettung im Fachunterricht auch gut qualifiziertes Lehrpersonal erforderlich, da die Umsetzung von Schülerfirmen voraussetzungsreich ist.
Emergency Care in Germany being re-assessed Hybrid Medical Care Model Seen As Potential Answer
(2017)
Motivation: Corruption is often cited as a central reason why development projects fail. The article tests this claim by assessing whether World Bank projects perform worse in implementation environments with a higher corruption level. The article focuses specifically on bribery between public officials and firms during the procurement of needed goods and services. Approach and Methods: I use data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys to avoid the often-criticized corruption perception indices and to allow for an assessment of effects at the subnational level. The analysis builds on an assessment of the performance ratings of 1,228 World Bank projects and covers 87 different countries. Finding: Overall, the article finds a small but statistically significant correlation between the corruption level and project performance. This result indicates that the corruption level of recipient countries should be considered during the design and implementation of projects. Policy Implications: Nonetheless, the relatively small correlation and the low pseudo R-squareds advise not overestimating the relevance of corruption for project performance. At least for the project level, the article finds no indication that corruption is a primary obstacle to aid effectiveness.
Balancing the Moods
(2018)
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.
The reaction of the German labor market to the Great Recession 2008/09 was relatively mild – especially compared to other countries. The reason lies not only in the specific type of the recession – which was favorable for the German economy structure – but also in a series of labor market reforms initiated between 2002 and 2005 altering, inter alia, labor supply incentives. However, irrespective of the mild response to the Great Recession, there are a number of substantial future challenges the German labor market will soon have to face. Female labor supply still lies well below that of other countries and a massive demographic change over the next 50 years will have substantial effects on labor supply as well as the pension system. In addition, due to a skill-biased technological change over the next decades, firms will face problems of finding employees with adequate skills. The aim of this paper is threefold. First, we outline why the German labor market reacted in such a mild fashion, describe current economic trends of the labor market in light of general trends in the European Union, and reveal some of the main associated challenges. Thereafter, the paper analyzes recent reforms of the main institutional settings of the labor market which influence labor supply. Finally, based on the status quo of these institutional settings, the paper gives a brief overview of strategies to combat adequately the challenges in terms of labor supply and to ensure economic growth in the future.