Im Rahmen eines Forschungsvorhabens für eine Dissertation im Fach Soziologie (vgl. Kellermann 1976) sollte mit einer vergleichenden Untersuchung zum Urlaub in einem neuen…
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Im Rahmen eines Forschungsvorhabens für eine Dissertation im Fach Soziologie (vgl. Kellermann 1976) sollte mit einer vergleichenden Untersuchung zum Urlaub in einem neuen Ferienzentrum und in einem herkömmlichen Ferienort ein Beitrag zur Lösung von praktischen Problemen in einem relativ neuen und kaum erforschten Bereich des Fremdenverkehrs in der BRD geleistet werden. Dazu wurde im Sommer 1975 eine Befragung von Urlaubern in einem Ferienzentrum und drei Ferienorten auf der Insel Fehmarn durchgeführt. Im folgenden werden einige wichtige Untersuchungsergebnisse dargestellt und im Hinblick auf ihre Konsequenzen für die Fremdenverkehrsplanung und die Angebotsgestaltung an der schleswig‐holsteinischen Ostseeküste analysiert.
Edith Steinhäuser, Lutz Stamp and Lutz Brandt
The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of additives in formaldehyde‐free copper‐plating solutions with low reducing agent (RA) concentration to improve the start reaction…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to examine the use of additives in formaldehyde‐free copper‐plating solutions with low reducing agent (RA) concentration to improve the start reaction of electroless copper deposition and to enable a copper‐plating process which is more environmentally friendly.
Design/methodology/approach
Different additives were investigated and their influence on the plating reaction and deposition rate was elucidated using several deposition trials.
Findings
On palladium‐activated base material, the additives reacted with the palladium and generated additional electrons in the initial phase of the deposition. Thus, the adequate supply of electrons from two sources (RA and additive) permits the deposition of a homogeneous and compact copper layer.
Research limitations/implications
At the present time, formaldehyde is the established RA in the electroless copper metallization process used with plated through‐holes. Because of its environmental impact, there is a need to replace formaldehyde. In this investigation, the more environmentally friendly glyoxylic acid is used as an autocatalytic RA. However, glyoxylic acid is more expensive and causes undesirable side reactions. In order to keep process costs under control, the concentration of glyoxylic acid in the copper bath should be reduced without affecting the quality of the copper deposits.
Originality/value
Additives can compensate for the lower RA concentration, and thus the lack of essential electrons for the copper deposition.
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Nobody concerned with political economy can neglect the history of economic doctrines. Structural changes in the economy and society influence economic thinking and, conversely…
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Nobody concerned with political economy can neglect the history of economic doctrines. Structural changes in the economy and society influence economic thinking and, conversely, innovative thought structures and attitudes have almost always forced economic institutions and modes of behaviour to adjust. We learn from the history of economic doctrines how a particular theory emerged and whether, and in which environment, it could take root. We can see how a school evolves out of a common methodological perception and similar techniques of analysis, and how it has to establish itself. The interaction between unresolved problems on the one hand, and the search for better solutions or explanations on the other, leads to a change in paradigma and to the formation of new lines of reasoning. As long as the real world is subject to progress and change scientific search for explanation must out of necessity continue.
Nikolaos Lagos, Adrian Mos and Mario Cortes-cornax
Domain-specific process modeling has been proposed in the literature as a solution to several problems in business process management. The problems arise when using only the…
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Purpose
Domain-specific process modeling has been proposed in the literature as a solution to several problems in business process management. The problems arise when using only the generic Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) standard for modeling. This language includes domain ambiguity and difficult long-term model evolution. Domain-specific modeling involves developing concept definitions, domain-specific processes and eventually industry-standard BPMN models. This entails a multi-layered modeling approach, where any of these artifacts can be modified by various stakeholders and changes done by one person may influence models used by others. There is therefore a need for tool support to keep track of changes done and their potential impacts. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors use a multi-context systems-based approach to infer the impacts that changes may cause in the models; and alsothe authors incrementally map components of business process models to ontologies.
Findings
Advantages of the framework include: identifying conflicts/inconsistencies across different business modeling layers; expressing rich information on the relations between two layers; calculating the impact of changes taking place in one layer to the rest of the layers; and selecting incrementally the most appropriate semantic models on which the transformations can be based.
Research limitations/implications
The authors consider this work as one of the foundational bricks that will enable further advances toward the governance of multi-layer business process modeling systems. Extensive usability tests would enable to further confirm the findings of the paper.
Practical implications
The approach described here should improve the maintainability, reuse and clarity of business process models and in extension improve data governance in large organizations. The approaches described here should improve the maintainability, reuse and clarity of business process models. This can improve data governance in large organizations and for large collections of processes by aiding various stakeholders to understand problems with process evolutions, changes and inconsistencies with business goals.
Originality/value
This paper fulfills an identified gap to enabling semantically aided domain–specific process modeling.
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The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the development of industrial relations (IR) in Germany since the end of the Second World War and discusses the current challenges…
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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct the development of industrial relations (IR) in Germany since the end of the Second World War and discusses the current challenges posed by economic globalisation und European integration.
Design/methodology/approach
Combining a political economy, identifying Germany as a coordinated market economy (social market economy), and actor-centred historical institutionalism approach, outlining the formation and strategies of the main social actors within a particular institutional setting, the paper draws on the broad range of research on IR in Germany and its theoretical debates, including own research in the field.
Findings
The legacy of the key institutional settings in the post-war era – primarily the social market economy, co-determination at supervisory boards, works councils and sector-based non-ideological unions with their analogously organised employer counterparts, as well as the dual system of interest representation – has shaped the German IR and still underlie the bargaining processes and joint learning processes although trade unions and employers’ associations have been weakened because of loss of membership. In consequence the coverage scope of collective agreements is now somewhat reduced. Despite being declared dead many times, the “German model” of a “conflictual partnership” of capital and labour has survived many turbulent changes affecting it to the core.
Originality/value
The paper presents an original, theoretical informed reconstruction of the German IR and allows an understanding of the current institutional changes and challenges in the light of historical legacies. Additionally the theoretical debates on path dependence and learning processes of collectivities are enriched through its application to the German case.
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Lia Zarantonello, Simona Romani, Silvia Grappi and Richard P. Bagozzi
– This study aims to investigate the nature of brand hate, its antecedents and its outcomes.
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Purpose
This study aims to investigate the nature of brand hate, its antecedents and its outcomes.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors conduct two quantitative studies in Europe. In Study 1, a measure of brand hate is developed and its effects are tested on behavioral outcomes. In Study 2, the authors show how brand hate and its behavioral outcomes change depending on the reasons for brand hate.
Findings
The study conceptualizes brand hate as a constellation of negative emotions which is significantly associated with different negative behavioral outcomes, including complaining, negative WOM, protest and patronage reduction/cessation. Reasons for brand hate related to corporate wrongdoings and violation of expectations are associated with “attack-like” and “approach-like” strategies, whereas reasons related to taste systems are associated with “avoidance-like” strategies.
Research limitations/implications
The study views brand hate as an affective phenomenon occurring at a point in time. Researchers could adopt a wider perspective by looking at the phenomenon of hate as a disposition/sentiment, not merely as an emotion. They could also adopt a longitudinal perspective to understand how brand hate develops over time and relate it to brand love.
Practical implications
The authors’ conceptualization of brand hate offers insights to companies about how to resist and prevent brand hate for one’s own brand.
Originality/value
The study provides a first conceptualization of brand hate and develops a scale for measuring it. The authors relate this conceptualization and measurement of brand hate to important behavioral outcomes and different types of antecedents.
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In the light of the developing nature of the personal investment and financing domain any guide to the literature is inevitably going to be subjective: one individual might prefer…
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In the light of the developing nature of the personal investment and financing domain any guide to the literature is inevitably going to be subjective: one individual might prefer a rational, analytical emphasis (reflecting, perhaps, an economic orientation), whilst another might favour an empirical orientation (reflecting real‐world patterns of human behaviour that may have significance for commercial exploitation). This guide contains elements of both these approaches, plus others, and draws on the available literature in a selective but multi‐disciplinary manner.
The article makes a comprehensive study of the development ofsocial economic thought in the history of economic doctrines. Traces ofsocial economic development are dated back to…
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The article makes a comprehensive study of the development of social economic thought in the history of economic doctrines. Traces of social economic development are dated back to the Physiocrats and moral philosophers and reference is made to the early Arab works in the developments of these social economic doctrines. The social economic thought in the classical school of economic theory is critically studied. It is shown that with the advancement of economic theory in the hands of the neoclassical school and its latter‐day developments social economic doctrines receded from mainstream economics. The contemporary social economists in North America have fallen into the trap of these neoclassical approaches applied to the study of social economic phenomena. The article also shows that similar neoclassical and ethically neutral traces continue in the works of the mixed economy theorists, institutionalists, macroeconomists, monetarists, rational expectations hypothesists, public and social choice theorists of all types. Thus, the whole gamut of mainstream economics is shown to be trapped in an epistemological and methodological quandary as to how ethical phenomena are to be treated rationally in the framework of economic theory.
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Looks retrospectively at an article written by the author and his colleagues in 1975 and contributed to the Journal of Business Research. Concludes that the article is still…
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Looks retrospectively at an article written by the author and his colleagues in 1975 and contributed to the Journal of Business Research. Concludes that the article is still relevant today, where information systems are still an important topic in the field of marketing.