Kunst oder Wissenschaft? Die BWL im Wandel der Zeit

2021 ◽  
Vol 62 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-144
Author(s):  
Johann Valentowitsch
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Business Economics ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Modern Self

In business economics, there has always been a dispute about the practical and scientific orientation of the academic field. This article shows that the struggle between the different positions has been of fundamental importance for the development of the modern self-understanding of business economics as a pluralistic and heterogeneous scientific discipline. In der Betriebswirtschaftslehre gab es seit jeher ein zähes Ringen um die Praxis- und Wissenschaftsorientierung der Disziplin. Während die Vertreter einer praxisorientierten Sichtweise den Handlungs- und Gestaltungsanspruch der Betriebswirtschaftslehre betonen, plädieren Wissenschaftstheoretiker für eine stärkere Orientierung an mikroökonomischen Modellen und am naturwissenschaftlichen Forschungsideal. In diesem Beitrag wird gezeigt, dass das Kräftemessen der unterschiedlichen Positionen für die Entwicklung des modernen Selbstverständnisses der Betriebswirtschaftslehre als pluralistische und heterogene Wissenschaftsdisziplin von elementarer Bedeutung gewesen ist. Die Selbstverständlichkeit, mit der die Betriebswirtschaftslehre heute sowohl gestalterische Handlungsempfehlungen formuliert als auch nach theoretischer Erkenntnis strebt, wäre ohne diese Auseinandersetzung nicht vorstellbar gewesen.

scholarly journals Self-assessment of entrepreneurial competencies of students of higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Helena Šlogar ◽  
Nebojša Stanić ◽  
Krešimir Jerin
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Digital Marketing ◽  
Entrepreneurial Education ◽  
Business Economics ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Undergraduate Studies ◽  
Entrepreneurial Competencies

Entrepreneurship has become an important academic field leading to a growing interest of scientists in the study, development and evaluation of entrepreneurial competencies of young people. Business based aspects of entrepreneurial competencies relate to the development of personality traits, student skills that influence one’s personal development for successful entrepreneurs. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the entrepreneurial competencies of students during their studies and how they relate to their socio-demographic characteristics. The research was conducted in November 2019 on a sample of 172 respondents and included first-year undergraduate students of business economics and undergraduate studies of digital marketing at institution of higher education. The results of the research show a positive statistically significant correlation between all entrepreneurial competencies of students. Statistically significant differences in entrepreneurial competencies according to the gender of students were found. And finally, statistically significant differences in entrepreneurial competencies between undergraduate students of business economics and undergraduate studies in digital marketing were shown. It is expected of students with a higher degree of management competencies attending entrepreneurial education more capable of becoming future entrepreneurs. The primary contribution of this paper is to point out the need to increase students’ awareness of the positive impact of entrepreneurial education programs that contribute to the development of such competencies.

scholarly journals On a Scientific Discipline (Once) Named AI

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Bibel
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current State ◽  
State Of Affairs

The paper envisions a scientific discipline of fundamental importance comparable to Physics or Biology, reminding that a discipline of such a contour was originally intended by the founders of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI today, however, is far from such an encompassing discipline sharing the respective research interests with at least half a dozen of other disciplines. After the analysis of this situation and its background we discuss the consequences of this splintering by means of selected challenges. We deliberate thereby what could be done to alleviate the disadvantages resulting from the current state of affairs and to leverage AI's current prominence in the public attention to re-engage in the field's broader mission.

Research on Starvation in the Warsaw Ghetto – Ethical Problems

2010 ◽  
pp. 439-450
Author(s):  
Marta Janczewska
Keyword(s):  
Research Team ◽  
Ethical Dilemmas ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Medical Treatments ◽  
Warsaw Ghetto ◽  
Dying Patients ◽  
To Receive

Research team of physicians and lab technicians under Izrael Milejkowski’s direction undertook the effort to carry out a series of clinical and biochemical experiments on patients dying of starvation in the Warsaw ghetto so as to receive the fullest possible picture of hunger disease. The research was carried out according to all the rigors of strict scientific discipline, and the authors during their work on academic articles, published it after the war entitled: „Starvation disease: hunger research carried out in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942,” according to their own words, they “supplemented the gap in accordance with the progress of knowledge.” The article is devoted to the reflections over ethical dilemmas of the research team, who were forced in their work to perform numerous medical treatments of experimental nature on extremely exhausted patients. The ill, according to Dr Fajgenblat’s words,“demonstrated negativism toward the research and treatment, which extremely hindered the work, and sometimes even frustrated it.” The article attempts to look at the monumental research work of the Warsaw ghetto doctors as a special kind of response of the medical profession to the feeling of helplessness to the dying patients. The article analyzes the situation of Warsaw ghetto doctors, who undertook the research without support of any outer authority, which could settle their possible ethical dilemmas (Polish deontological codes, European discussions on the conditions of the admissibility of medical research on patients, etc.).

The Common as Body Without Organs

2010 ◽  
Vol 4 (supplement) ◽  
pp. 46-63
Author(s):  
Vidar Thorsteinsson
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Political Thinking ◽  
Conceptual Apparatus ◽  
Body Without Organs ◽  
Social Factory ◽  
The Common

The paper explores the relation of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's work to that of Deleuze and Guattari. The main focus is on Hardt and Negri's concept of ‘the common’ as developed in their most recent book Commonwealth. It is argued that the common can complement what Nicholas Thoburn terms the ‘minor’ characteristics of Deleuze's political thinking while also surpassing certain limitations posed by Hardt and Negri's own previous emphasis on ‘autonomy-in-production’. With reference to Marx's notion of real subsumption and early workerism's social-factory thesis, the discussion circles around showing how a distinction between capital and the common can provide a basis for what Alberto Toscano calls ‘antagonistic separation’ from capital in a more effective way than can the classical capital–labour distinction. To this end, it is demonstrated how the common might benefit from being understood in light of Deleuze and Guattari's conceptual apparatus, with reference primarily to the ‘body without organs’ of Anti-Oedipus. It is argued that the common as body without organs, now understood as constituting its own ‘social production’ separate from the BwO of capital, can provide a new basis for antagonistic separation from capital. Of fundamental importance is how the common potentially invents a novel regime of qualitative valorisation, distinct from capital's limitation to quantity and scarcity.

Family Concerns inThe Vampire Diaries

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-222
Author(s):  
Antonio Sanna
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Importance ◽  
Familial Relationships ◽  
Familial Bonds ◽  
Television Medium ◽  
Precious Stones

This paper examines the TV series The Vampire Diaries to show how the programme responds to traditional gothic tropes and transforms them for the television medium. Vampires and humans shall be read as both preoccupied with the ties of family, in story arcs that explore complex and often dark familial relationships. Especially in the early seasons of the series, objects such as magic rings, compasses, precious stones and magical devices are given fundamental importance for the development of the plot, the interactions among the characters, and the representation of familial bonds. Specifically, the search for and retrieval of the heirlooms shall be interpreted as instrumental to the representation of the characters’ relationships with their respective families, which I argue is a characteristic theme of gothic fictions at large.

Translational medicine

2011 ◽  
Vol 152 (47) ◽  
pp. 1894-1902
Author(s):  
János Antal ◽  
Attila Timár
Keyword(s):  
Pharmaceutical Industry ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Computer Modeling ◽  
Translational Medicine ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Laboratory Research ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
Industry Research ◽  
Underlying Basis

Translational medicine is the emerging scientific discipline of the last decade which will set the benchmark for the pharmaceutical industry research and development, integrates inputs from the basic sciences of computer modeling and laboratory research through the pre-clinical and clinical phases of human research to the assimilation of new therapies and treatments into everyday practice of patient care and prevention. With this brief insight authors tried in their humble way to summarize the underlying basis, the present and the potential future of this emerging view, to draw attention to some of the challenges and tasks it faces and to highlight some of the promising approaches, trends and model developments and applications. Orv. Hetil., 2011, 152, 1894–1902.

Running the World's Markets

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Lee
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Business Economics ◽  
Global Consensus ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Finance Law ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
Regulatory Powers ◽  
Market Infrastructure ◽  
Theoretical Issues ◽  
Central Securities Depositories

The efficiency, safety, and soundness of financial markets depend on the operation of core infrastructure—exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories. How these institutions are governed critically affects their performance. Yet, despite their importance, there is little certainty, still less a global consensus, about their governance. This book examines how markets are, and should be, run. Utilizing a wide variety of arguments and examples from throughout the world, the book identifies and evaluates the similarities and differences between exchanges, central counter-parties, and central securities depositories. Drawing on knowledge and experience from various disciplines, including business, economics, finance, law, politics, and regulation, the book employs a range of methodologies to tackle different goals. Conceptual analysis is used to examine theoretical issues, survey evidence to describe key aspects of how market infrastructure institutions are governed and regulated globally, and case studies to detail the particular situations and decisions at specific institutions. The combination of these approaches provides a unique and rich foundation for evaluating the complex issues raised. The book analyzes efficient forms of governance, how regulatory powers should be allocated, and whether regulatory intervention in governance is desirable. It presents guidelines for identifying the optimal governance model for any market infrastructure institution within the context of its specific environment. The book provides a definitive and peerless reference for how to govern and regulate financial markets.

Improving the financial investment system as an object of business economics

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 508-526
Author(s):  
O.T. Astanakulov ◽  
E.G. Sheina
Keyword(s):  
Deductive Reasoning ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Investment Project ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Expert Assessment ◽  
Business Economics ◽  
Financial Investment ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Investment Projects ◽  
Investment Control

Subject. This article explores the economic relations of economic entities concerning effective investment activities, combining elements of investment control and assessment of related risk. Objectives. The article aims to analyze and logically substantiate the stages and types of investment activities of enterprises and investment projects in-progress, as well as define a methodological approach to assessing project risks. Methods. For the study, we used a structural and logical analysis, and deductive reasoning. The methodological base of the study is based on the principles of the theory of finance, investment and risk management. Results. The article defines stages of assessing the financial condition of enterprises and proposes a methodological approach to assessing certain risks of an investment project based on the risk ranking by degree of probability and significance of an event through applying the expert assessment method. The article also presents a practice-oriented risk map for investment projects and clarifies the concept of Investment Control. Conclusions. The results of the study can help address the significant for the Russian economy issue of stimulating and developing investment activities at enterprises, as well as implementing and evaluating the effectiveness of investment projects at the micro-and macro-levels of the country's economy.

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