Thomsen, F. (2020). Ein Simulationsmodell zur Identifikation von Diffusionskoeffizienten anhand charakteristischer Kenngrößen aus Sinterexperimenten. Technische Fakultät. Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
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
Abstract
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.
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
Odenwald, J., Bertel, S., & Echtler, F. (2020). Tabletop Teleporter: Evaluating the Immersiveness of Remote Board Gaming. In Proceedings of the 9TH ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (S. 79–86). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. http://doi.org/10.1145/3393712.3395337
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Communication with remote persons over a video link is common today, e.g. to connect with family members abroad, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, social activities such as board games are rarely shared in this way, as common video chat software does not support this scenario well. However, interactive tabletops provide inherent support for natural tangible interaction with items on the tabletop surface.We present the Tabletop Teleporter, a setup designed to merge two remote locations into a single shared interaction space. We evaluate the system using a board game, focusing on the perceived immersion and connectedness of participants. Our evaluation shows that most measures for the social quality of a remotely shared game are not significantly different from one played with co-located participants, and that players prefer our setup over a pure videochat scenario.
Dylus, S., Christiansen, J., & Teegen, F. (2020). Implementing a Library for Probabilistic Programming Using Non-Strict Non-Determinism. Theory and Practice of Logic Programming, 20, 147–175. http://doi.org/10.1017/S1471068419000085
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”.