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This market research paper has been prepared under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Veit of Cologne University of Applied Sciences and Prof. Dr. Carol Scovotti of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the course of the inter-university cross-border collaboration student research project “Export Opportunity Surveys (EOS)”. This study explores organic rye export opportunities to the German and US markets.
This paper gives an overview of the development of Fair Trade in six European countries: Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. After the description of the food retail industry and its market structures in these countries, the main European Fair Trade organizations are analyzed regarding their role within the Fair Trade system. The following part deals with the development of Fair Trade sales in general and with respect to the products coffee, tea, bananas, fruit juice and sugar. An overview of the main activities of national Fair Trade organizations, e.g. public relation activities, completes the analysis. This study shows the enormous upswing of Fair Trade during the last decade and the reasons for this development. Nevertheless, it comes to the conclusion that Fair Trade is still far away from being an essential part of the food retail industry in Europe.
This paper gives a practical approach to the area of business ethics, in particular to Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), via analyzing how the retail chain REWE shows its commitment to its social responsibilities as defined by the four-part model of CSR. As Fairtrade offers one way for fulfilling social responsibilities, in particular the ethical and philanthropic responsibilities of CSR, REWE’s participation in selling Fairtrade products is analyzed. This analysis is conducted by applying the criteria for receiving the Fairtrade Award to REWE which allows drawing conclusions about REWE’s commitment to Fairtrade. Information for this assessment is taken from publicly available sources as well as from personal communication with the Fairtrade organization TransFair. The paper further gives an indication about the match between REWE’s communication – as the selling of Fairtrade products is communicated via REWE’s sustainability program – and REWE’s action concerning social responsibility, expressed by its commitment to Fairtrade. Implementing a sustainability program is one way for companies to exercise CSR and thus the analysis conducted concerning REWE’s commitment to Fairtrade is an attempt to answer the question whether companies’ communication about their CSR efforts matches their actions.
This market research paper has been prepared under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Veit of Cologne University of Applied Sciences and Prof. Dr. Carol Scovotti of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the course of the inter-university cross-border collaboration student research project “Export Opportunity Surveys (EOS)”. This study explores walnuts export opportunities to the German and US markets.
This market research paper has been prepared under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Veit of Cologne University of Applied Sciences and Prof. Dr. Carol Scovotti of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the course of the inter-university cross-border collaboration student research project “Export Opportunity Surveys (EOS)”. This study explores vanilla export opportunities to the German and US markets.
The geography of European cross-border banking : the impact of cultural and political factors
(2009)
We investigate the determinants of European banking market integration with a focus on the potentially limiting role of cultural and political factors. Employing a unique data set of European cross-border loans and deposits, the study uses various gravity models that are augmented by societal proxies. While trade-theoretic reasoning can explain part of the surge in cross-border banking, we demonstrate that distance and borders still matter in the geography of European cross-border banking. Moreover, we can identify cultural differences and different legal family origin as important barriers to integration.
On 25 May 2011, the OECD launched a "Green Growth Strategy" and proposed a "Green Growth Diagnostics" approach to identify the binding constraints on green growth. This paper discusses the potential use and usefulness of this approach as a means to identify those binding constraints. It is argued that the approach is best used at the meso level for industries and certain environmental challenges. The paper proposes a modified green growth diagnostics approach for eco-innovations at the meso level that can be useful for informing and organising a rational policy dialogue amongst all stakeholders.
Wir wollen in diesem Aufsatz die Internationalisierungsimperative für die Hochschulausbildung und hier insbesondere die Managementausbildung reflektieren, die sich für uns aus der empirischen Analyse der gegenwärtigen weltwirtschaftlichen Integrationsprozesse und deren Folgen ergeben, und somit etwas zur Diskussion um das "Warum" und "Wie" der Internationalisierung der Managementausbildung beitragen. Diese Überlegungen sollen dann mit den praktischen Erfahrungen aus einem internationalen Studiengang abgeglichen werden; namentlich dem Master-Studiengang "Internationales Management und Interkulturelle Kommunikation" (kurz: GlobalMBA).
This paper investigates the state, development and drivers of banking market integration in the member countries of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) by employing interest rate data. We first conduct a principal component analysis and find evidence for both increasing monetary integration and banking integration in loan and deposit markets. These integration processes are not developing uniformly and we can identify a convergence club. As banking market integration can be a genuine process or simply be driven by monetary integration, we also investigate the interest rate pass through from national and South African Central bank interest rates onto national retail rates. With respect to the convergence club we find both, genuine and monetary-integration driven processes though the latter dominate. We conclude that a selective expansion of the Common Monetary Area is possible but needs to be complement by efficient financial development policies.
Zielsetzung der Ausbildung an der Fachhochschule Köln ist es, Studierende auf den Einstieg in die Berufspraxis optimal vorzubereiten. Dazu sind praxisorientierte Unterrichtsformen wie das projektorientierte Lehren und Lernen ein geeignetes Mittel. Im Rahmen des Studienschwerpunktes General Management des Studienganges Betriebswirtschaftslehre (Diplom / Bachelor) haben Studierende in jedem Semester die Möglichkeit, wechselnde Aufgabenstellungen aus der Unternehmenspraxis arbeitsteilig im Team zu bearbeiten. Die Ergebnisse dieser Praxisprojekte werden den beteiligten Unternehmen vor Ort präsentiert und in Form eines Projektberichtes aufgearbeitet und dokumentiert. Der vorliegende Projektbericht zum Thema „Social Media bei der Jobsuche“ ist ein gelungenes Beispiel für ein abgeschlossenes Praxisprojekt. An der Untersuchung haben sich 219 Absolventen eines Studiums und 61 Berufseinsteiger mit Berufspraxis per Online-Fragebogen beteiligt. Zusätzlich wurden ergänzende Interviews mit ausgewählten Partnern durchgeführt.