Bücher der Reihe Sustainable Management, Wertschoepfung und Effizienz

In this book Ruxandra Maria Bejinariu introduces an innovative approach related to improving the risk assessment process by using unexploited methods that have been mainly used in limited areas of business and identifying both threats and opportunities that can be generated as a result of risk materialization.

The paper coordinated by Prof. Dr. Bogdan Cristian Onete is a topical subject in the context of the present informational era. It suggests a distinct approach regarding social media and the peer-to-peer platforms from the perspective of the quality of services and collaborative consumption. The research of the paper includes a quantitative research regarding the implications of peer-to-peer platforms concerning the consumer, and a qualitative research with regards to social media and its degree of influence on the quality of services. This research presents many interesting findings regarding the consumer perception of quality of services in the context of the sharing economy. These findings are valuable for all parties working in the domain of the sharing economy or collaborative consumption.

Performant business models in the 21st century are characterized by the intelligent integration of soft, human-based aspects on the one hand and technology-based opportunities on the other hand to foster not only economic but also environmental results.

After that, combined with the trend exploration of urban spatial development on large- and megacities, this book constructs the 2.x Modula & Sustainable Urban Freight Network to improve the flexibility of the future sustainable logistics transformation. About the AuthorDr. rer.

This book identifies central key factors for future-oriented teaching in Higher Education to support the task of ensuring the knowledge transfer for sustainable and competence-oriented employability to the future workforce.

In this Open Access publication Claudia Lemke develops a comprehensive Multi-Level Sustainable Development Index (MLSDI) that is applicable to micro, meso, and macro objects by conducting methodological and empirical research.

Existing literature on energy audits consists almost exclusively of practical guides. It discusses the nature of energy audits and provides a universally applicable data model as a basis for automatic processing of a large number of energy audits.

The study on the impact of the digital consumer's emotional intelligence based on the moral values promoted in e-business presents an actual interdisciplinary topic in the context of the digital age.

In this book Markus Bodemann bridges the differences between public and private sector in aspects of management, especially risk management.

Denisa Elena Vlad highlights the influence of social media and emotions on the consumer and his perception of the quality of products.

Diana Mitsch zeigt in diesem Buch, dass Hersteller von Medizinprodukten beim Produktdesign über ökonomische Kriterien hinaus auch ökologische und gesellschaftliche Ansprüche berücksichtigen müssen: Produkte müssen folglich nicht nur den Erwartungen von Kunden bzw. Anwendern und generellen sowie branchenspezifischen gesetzlichen Vorgaben entsprechen, sondern sollen insbesondere auch einem komplexen Geflecht nachhaltigkeitsrelevanter Anforderungen Rechnung tragen, ohne dabei zumindest einen langfristig positiven ökonomischen Beitrags zu leisten. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Arbeit steht die Entwicklung eines Modells zur Förderung des Designs nachhaltiger Produkte.

Unter Einbeziehung der Forschungsbereiche Kritikalitätsanalyse, Life Cycle Impact Assessment und Social Life Cycle Assessment entwickelt Christoph Kolotzek ein Modell zur Bewertung metallischer Rohstoffe und präsentiert einen Leitfaden zur Integration des Modells im unternehmerischen Kontext. Bei der Beschaffung oder Selektion einzelner Rohstoffe beziehungsweise rohstoffenthaltender Komponenten berücksichtigen Entscheidungsträger in Unternehmen hierdurch gezielt rohstoffspezifische Verfügbarkeitsrisiken, zugehörige Umweltauswirkungen und die sozialen Verhältnisse in rohstofffördernden Ländern.¿

In this thesis Vanessa Just casts an innovative light upon the current perspectives and the future trends related to sustainable business processes in global companies.

The developed concepts provide practitioners tools to define equity value drivers, consider risk treatments and value investments along the two dimensions of value creation and value protection.

In this book Jan Kopia assesses the problems of the evaluation of integrated management systems. Practical solutions for the evaluation of management systems are suggested, which show the strategic relevance of management systems and its influence on process performance.

The book presents an avant-garde and interdisciplinary technical-entrepreneurial approach for ensuring sustainability by bringing a Systems Engineering (SE) novel mechanism applied to telemedicine context making use of space technologies into the light.

In this book Gregor Weber deals with enterprises and the pool of challenges including energy efficiency and sustainability they are confronted with. It was awarded with the "Project Sustainability 2017" by the Council of Sustainable Development of the German government as well as with the "German Industry Award 2017".