Books published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Josef Anton Strini analyzes a special stochastic optimal control problem. The problem under study arose from a dynamic cash management model in finance, where decisions about the dividend and financing policies of a firm have to be made.

Power, Positionality, and the Public Sphere

In this context, the question of trust in systems - as introduced by sociologists Luhmann, Coleman and Giddens - acquires new urgency, as yet uncommented upon in trust research, or socio-technical systems debates.

Marco Just Quiles offers new perspectives on how domestic and external factors interact to shape variations in local state capacity.

Birgit Phillips explores the concept of transformative travel as it pertains to long-term independent travelers and offers a broad philosophical understanding of the complex socio-cultural processes involved in identity negotiation.

Matthaus Jager examines the simulation of liquid-gas flow in fuel tank systems and its application to sloshing problems. The second step involves the cell-centered finite volume method and its application to fluid dynamic problems with free surfaces using a volume of fluid approach.

Tikhonov regularization is a cornerstone technique in solving inverse problems with applications in countless scientific fields. Richard Huber discusses a multi-parameter Tikhonov approach for systems of inverse problems in order to take advantage of their specific structure.

Danielle Gluns examines how urban housing governance reacts to the onset of urban growth in an internationally comparative perspective. She demonstrates that path dependence is an important feature of urban housing governance, with relationships, ideologies, and physical urban structures leading to stability.

Simon Grimm examines new multi-microphone signal processing strategies that aim to achieve noise reduction and dereverberation. The author analyses how additional knowledge about the location of a speaker as well as the microphone arrangement can be used to achieve further noise reduction and dereverberation.

Omar Abu Mohareb proposes a novel dynamic inductor control (DIC) that can be generally applied to various DC-DC converter types.

The author solves challenges of attributing multifunctionality (co-products) and temporal system boundaries (crop rotations) of agricultural systems by establishing two new Life Cycle Inventory methodologies, which conform to ISO-standards on LCA.

Anne Dreller shows that data sharing offers great opportunities and huge value creation potential for the business world.

Daryoush Daniel Vaziri illustrates that the use of mixed methods designs may support the induction of more subtle and complete theories about older adults' use of technologies for the support of active and healthy aging.

Based on close to two hundred interviews with decision-makers, government officials, and industry stakeholders, Karoline Steinbacher presents the first in-depth enquiry into Germany's efforts of "exporting" its sustainable energy policies.

The concept of a circular economy gains more and more popularity for companies and politics. This book addresses the following research questions: How is the concept of the circular economy implemented?

The target groups are professional engineers and biologists, as well as students of both disciplines. The book presents a selection of methods for specific activities in bio-inspired design, namely: planning a bio-inspired design project, abstraction, search, analysis and comparison, and transfer of analogies.

Kaum ein Begriff wird im Managementdiskurs so leichtfertig gebraucht wie der der Organisationskultur. Wahrend es in der Diskussion bisher eher ublich ist, den Begriff weit zu definieren und darunter so unterschiedliche Phanomene wie Annahmen"e;, Werte"e;, Traditionen"e;, Glaubenssatze"e;, Mythen"e; und Artefakte"e; zusammenzufassen, wird in diesem Buch ein enger Begriff verwendet. Organisationskultur - die informale Struktur einer Organisation - sind die Verhaltenserwartungen, uber die nicht bewusst entschieden wurde, sondern die sich langsam durch Wiederholungen und Imitationen eingeschlichen haben. Es wird gezeigt, wie es mithilfe dieser engen Bestimmung moglich ist, die Kultur einer Organisation genau zu erfassen, um Ansatze fur Veranderungen identifizieren zu konnen. Denn: Die einzige Moglichkeit, die Organisationskultur zu beeinflussen, besteht fur das Management darin - und das mag zunachst paradox klingen -, die formale Struktur der Organisation zu verandern. 

Florian Kumb provides a comprehensive review of the current state of the international literature on the motion picture industry and then applies a mix of appropriate quantitative and qualitative research methods in three empirical studies. He enters uncharted research territory examining the effects that major film characteristics cause in the post-theatrical exhibition, he identifies key factors that influence public film funding decisions, and then forecasts the future market development of a European film-financing network. The author shows that the characteristics of local movies, public film funding, and the local film financing network are major reasons for the low international competitiveness of Germany's motion picture industry.

In diesem essential beschreibt Jan-Uwe Schmidt, wie durch Kiebitzinseln nicht nur dem Kiebitz geholfen wird, sondern auch andere Tier- und Pflanzenarten profitieren konnen. Durch jahrliche Anlage einer Schwarzbrache mit mindestens 2 Hektar Groe lassen sich Nassstellen leicht als Kiebitzbrutplatz einrichten. Landwirte erhohen so die Nachhaltigkeit der Landnutzung und schaffen auerdem einen sicheren Erlos aus der Vergutung der Agrarumweltmanahme. Dieses essential gibt praktische Hinweise zur Planung und Anlage von Kiebitzinseln mithilfe von Luftbildern.