Das 1. Symposium für Ökonomie im Gartenbau fand am 27. November 2013 in der Paulinerkirche in Göttingen statt. Es wurde als Kooperation der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, des Thünen- Instituts für Betriebswirtschaft und des Agrarkompetenznetzes WeGa durchgeführt. Die Veranstaltung...

Free!! Google and Facebook!!! We all know them, what to worry about? Everything! The giants of the internet are expanding into every corner of the economy, politics and our lives. They control the majority of digital advertising; Alphabet, Google's parent, and Facebook receive more than 60...

There can be no doubt that the FANG companies – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, as well as Twitter – have transformed society since their emergence. Like all social transformations, the changes wrought by their services have had ripple effects that are both positive and negative. On...

Work process knowledge (WPK) is a concept for systems-level knowledge of the workplace and has been shown to be most important in organisations requiring multi-functional working. Most of the previous body of knowledge on WPK has focussed mainly on manufacturing industries; there has been less...

This study is a comparison of typical customer comment cards in comparison tothe QS-1000 survey computer. Each of these instruments can be used to gather data fromcustomers regarding their opinions on service. As compettion throughout the serviceindustry increases, the need for businesses to...

The current study aimed to determine the best method for estimating latent variable interactions as a function of the size of the interaction effect, sample size, the loadings of the indicators, the size of the relation between the first-order latent variables, and normality. Data were simulated...

In latent growth modeling (LGM), model selection and inference are treated as separate stages of data analysis, but they are generally conducted on the assumption that the model is known a priori and thus model selection and inference are performed on the same data set. This two-step process...

Deutsche Universit?ten stehen heute genauso wie Unternehmen vor der Frage, wen sie zum Studium zulassen bzw. als Mitarbeiter ausw?hlen. Die Kriterien, die f?r diese Auswahlentscheidungen herangezogen werden, gleichen sich zwischen Universit?ten und Unternehmen zunehmend an. Meist ber?cksichtigen...