Fuchs and collaborators [1, 2] showed that when a high voltage is applied between two electrodes, immersed in two beakers containing twice distilled water, a water bridge between the two containers is formed. We observed that a copper ions flow can pass through the bridge if the negative electrode is a copper electrode. The direction of the flux is not only depending on the direction of the applied electrostatic field but on the relative electronegativity of the electrodes too. The fact seems to suggest new perspectives in understanding the structure of water and the mechanisms concerning the arising of ions fluxes in living matter.
...4.2 After the water bridge had risen we stressed the bridge increasing the voltage, man...
This paper reviews recent books supporting the development of using qualitative methods in interpretative research. Revolving around three major issues, i.e. increasing the level of rigour, using software packages and new methodological developments, the paper outlines the specific contributions of these books and lays out further needs for development. [PUB ABSTRACT]
... scrutiny, the level of expectations has risen and the existing knowledge base has greatly broade...
Forecasting changes in business environments is critical for appropriate responses by policy makers and corporate decision makers. This article reports on a Delphi study which features three rounds of interchanges between experts on possible changes in the international business environment and practice in the next years. Results indicate that terrorism and corruption issues have risen in importance while trade negotiations have declined. Corporate strategies are seen to need significant reform to deliver on the promise of globalization. As trends are becoming more multidimensional, regular solicitation of stakeholder perspectives becomes more important.
The article examines the macroeconomic effects of the recent labour market reforms in Germany. The reforms increased the downward pressure on wages and led to rising income inequality. Many German economists welcomed this effect, because they consider lower wages and higher wage dispersion major prerequisites for stronger employment growth. The theoretical analysis shows that a strategy of wage restraint might make sense in a small open economy, where exports play a dominating role. However, in a large and less open economy the negative effects of wage restraint on domestic demand are likely to outweigh the positive effects of enhanced competitiveness as could be observed in Germany in recent years. A comparison of the most recent two upswings confirms that the labour intensity of growt...
...Real gross income of households has not risen either, but even declined slightly in the current ...
... three times faster than domestic R&D, and risen from $ 5.2 billion to $14.1 billion. It reached $1...
Market-led reform strategies around the world have given rise to fears of a progressive commercialization of hospital care. The aim of this article is to suggest an analytical framework that might explain the ubiquitous market-led reform strategies and to scrutinize widespread claim that commercialization processes impacts negatively on quality and equality of access. In comparing an ideal type model of commercialized health care with institutional and organizational change the article provides an assessment of commercialization processes in German hospital care. Although there is a newly evolving market-led governance structure in German hospital care commercialization processes have, however, been restricted. While there are strong signs that on a regulatory level the German hospital ...
... the number of integrated care contracts has risen steadily since their introduction in 2000 and espe...
The study presents a quantitative analysis of publications of business scholars and practitioners in six major German-speaking journals over the period from 1992 to 2001. The measure of research output is used as an indicator of research performance of scholars and institutions. The present analysis replicates and extends a previous study conducted ten years ago. Results suggest that the share of full professors and practitioners who contribute to the major journals has decreased while the share of junior academics has increased. As a common feature of all journals included in the study their international exposure is low. The ranking of business schools has not changed very much compared to the time period of the previous study.
...* the amount of risen/spent third-party funds,. * the extent of scholars...
This contribution is an attempt to demonstrate that the concept of "value generalization" is of considerable importance for moral philosophy and therefore hopefully also for those interested in business and economic ethics. The importance of this concept lies in its relevance for what one could call "the logic of a communication about values." This logic is different from the structure of rational-argumentative discourse in a strict sense, but also far from a mere clash of values or identities or civilizations or any form of irrationalist decisionism as if ultimate values could only be chosen in an existential way without any reasoning and intersubjective plausibility.
... contain factual statements like '!Jesus has risen from the dead" or "Muhammad is the prophet", our c...
Although the population in Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) is still younger, on average, than in Western Europe, the CEEC also have to cope with challenges caused by the demographic shift towards an ageing, shrinking population. Some countries are ageing even faster than Western Europe. Apart from ageing, the CEEC also have to face problems caused by the economic transition. Based on neo-institutional organisation theory this paper looks at the management implications of these developments and points out strategies for Human Resources Management and Marketing in how to cope with upcoming challenges.
... up to the end of the 1980s while it has risen constantly in Western Europe (Dickmann 2004). In t...
Using a sample of 628 cross-border alliances established by emerging economies firms across 25 manufacturing and service industries in 64 host countries in the period 1995-2004, this paper investigates the effect of institutional factors on the adoption of equity alliance mode. The findings of this study contribute to empirical research in institutional theory, institutional explanations of cross-border alliances and strategic behavior of emerging economies firms. The authors find support for institutional explanations of the adoption of equity alliance mode by emerging economies firms. They also find that institutional effects are contingent on the alliance location. When emerging economies firms establish alliances in developed host countries, their governance choice is most influence...
... foreign direct investment by EE firms has risen from a modest amount in the early 1980s to US$ 174...
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