Books published by Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden

Angela Pohlmann analyses the social embeddedness of renewable energy production. Energy production instead is analyzed as an outcome of complex situations within which dynamic negotiation processes unfold.

Hendrik Herold explores potentials and hindrances of using retrospective geoinformation for monitoring, communicating, modeling, and eventually understanding the complex and gradually evolving processes of land cover and land use change.

Nadja Bieletzki explores how university presidents lead universities. Based on the results from semi-structured expert interviews and their qualitative analysis, the author shows that university presidents do not use all their formal power although their position has been strengthened by law.

By doing so, the author considers the ongoing structural transformation of the Eurasian continent against the backdrop of deepening commercial interconnectivity in Eurasia into broader areas of trade, supported by the rapid development of rail connectivity.

Philipp Bergmeir works on the development and enhancement of data mining and machine learning methods with the aim of analysing automatically huge amounts of load spectrum data that are recorded for large hybrid electric vehicle fleets.

This book explains and critically examines how arts managers from more than 40 countries across the world respond to the various phenomena of globalisation, digitalisation and migration.

Elke Weyer sheds light on the question why, after more than three decades of higher education reforms in some countries, it is still not clear whether the reforms have achieved their stated goals, i.e., to create autonomous universities that meet political expectations.

The author describes how companies can take responsibility in the fight against corruption and which six success factors play an important role in this difficult endeavor. In light of globalization, private actors increasingly cooperate in the fight against corruption in the context of sector-specific coordinated governance initiatives.

This book provides the trends and technologies in the automotive industry as it moves from a connected vehicle to a cognitive vehicle and how automotive manufactures facing the market shift from an organizational-centered to an individual-centered economy.

This book systematically identifies the lack of methodological support for development of requirements and software architecture in the state-of-the-art.

Melanie Holloway explores a cloud broker offering service level agreement negotiation and monitoring as a service to consumers.