Riggert, W. ., & Lübben, R. . (2020). Rechnernetze: Ein einführendes Lehrbuch. Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH \& Company KG. http://doi.org/10.3139/9783446463691
Bertel, S. ., & Wetzel, S. . (2020). Comparing Eye Movements Between Physical Rotation Interaction Techniques. In ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. http://doi.org/10.1145/3379156.3391355
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Recent studies have shown a number of procedural similarities between solving problems in mental and in physical rotation. Such similarities open up the interesting option to study mental rotation indirectly through physical rotation, with the advantage that physical rotation processes can be much more easily observed than mental ones. To better assess where solution processes in mental and physical rotation differ, though, it is important to know what influence any specific interaction method in physical rotation will have. We present results from a comparison of two such interaction methods: a one-handed, touch-based and a two-handed, ball-based method. Our analysis focuses on fixation durations and saccade amplitudes as proxies for mental load. Results show, importantly, that the choice of interaction method seems to matter but little. We therefore suggest that the existing findings of past studies that have compared mental to physical rotation are likely highly comparable, despite the fact that different interaction techniques were used.
Warasthe, R. ., Schulz, F. ., Enneking, R. ., & Brandenburg, M. . (2020). Sustainability Prerequisites and Practices in Textile and Apparel Supply Chains. Sustainability, 12. http://doi.org/10.3390/su12239960
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The proposed study deals with sustainable supply chain management (SSCM) in the textile and apparel (T&A) industry. We analyze prerequisites and practices of supply chain (SC) sustainability in a multiple case study of the German and Ethiopian T&A industry. Our analysis is based on ten semi-structured interviews conducted with the managers of seven companies in the Ethiopian T&A production and the German fair fashion retail industries. The contribution of expert knowledge helps in identifying SC sustainability prerequisites and practices. The chosen cases of production in Ethiopia and retail in Germany highlight the complexity of T&A SCs while representing both the suppliers’ and retailers’ perspectives, which is rare in the related literature. As a major research contribution, the study adapts a framework for SC sustainability in the chemical industry and transfers it to T&A SCs. Moreover, practitioners from the T&A industry find useful insights into relevant practices and their prerequisites, which helps in improving SC sustainability in this sector. The study reveals that management orientation and interest groups such as customers represent the most important prerequisites for sustainability. Manufacturers rely more on internal practices such as monitoring, while retailers focus on external sustainability practices, such as supplier development. In a comparative approach, similarities and differences between T&A SCs and the chemical industry are identified.
Minhas, N. M., Masood, S. ., Petersen, K. ., & Nadeem, A. . (2020). A systematic mapping of test case generation techniques using UML interaction diagrams. Journal of Software: Evolution and Process, 32, e2235.
Siebert, J. U., Brandenburg, M. ., & Siebert, J. . (2020). Defining and Aligning Supply Chain Objectives Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic. IEEE Engineering Management Review, 48, 72–85. http://doi.org/10.1109/EMR.2020.3032369
Behrends, T. ., Baur, M. ., & Zierke, L. . (2020). Much Ado About Little: A Critical Review of the Employer Branding Concept. In (S. 1–30). Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. http://doi.org/10.5771/0935-9915-2020-1-1
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Within the past ten to fifteen years the concept of Employer Branding (EB) has established itself as a widely known and highly regarded concept especially among Human Resource Management practitioners. In many organizations the development, implementation and communication of a distinctive and unique employer brand is meanwhile considered an important building block for gaining a competitive advantage in the so called “war for talent”. The paper at hand aims at critically exploring the conceptual foundations of employer branding by reviewing an extensive body of EB-literature consisting of standard references, scientific journal articles, textbooks as well as practitioner-oriented literature. This review reveals several general weaknesses, discrepancies and “blind spots” which cannot simply be attributed to some few single publications but rather call for a skeptical look upon the whole concept of employer branding itself. In conclusion the authors assert that the employer branding concept widely lacks innovative novelty as well as content-related persuasiveness. It should therefore be regarded as neither more nor less than a contemporary remake of what is and has for quite some time been well known as “Internal Marketing” or “HR Marketing”.