Zu spät. - In: Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht, ISSN 1613-7663, Bd. 77 (2022), 3, S. 553-558
https://doi.org/10.33196/zoer202203055301
Internationale Perspektiven zur Informationsvermeidung während der Coronapandemie: ein Vergleich der Medienbewertungen und der Mediennutzung in Pakistan, Deutschland und Indonesien :
International perspectives on information avoidance during the coronavirus pandemic: comparing media evaluations and media use in Pakistan, Germany, and Indonesia. - In: Studies in communication and media, ISSN 2192-4007, Bd. 11 (2022), 3, S. 477-507
This study investigates the comparative prevalence of information avoidance concerning the coronavirus and its relationship with media evaluation and use. We argue that information avoidance is a behavior that broadly signifies the intermittent and conscious practice of shunning specific content. It is problematic because having an informed citizenry is essential, especially during a global pandemic. Given the global affectedness of the world by the coronavirus, we believe in the necessity for international comparative research and conduct our study in Pakistan, Germany, and Indonesia. Based on the existing literature, which stems predominantly from the Global North, we assume that media use and its evaluations are associated with information avoidance and test our assumptions against cross-cultural differences. Hence, we collected data in Germany (n = 822), Indonesia (n = 1164), and Pakistan (n = 467). The results indicate important differences with regard to the prevalence of information avoidance as well as media use and its evaluations across the three countries. The analysis further confirms a rather stable relationship between media evaluations with information avoidance but revealed interesting differences in the associations between media use and avoidance.
https://doi.org/10.5771/2192-4007-2022-3-477
The digital consulting ecosystem business model. - In: Handbook on digital business ecosystems, (2022), S. 232-248
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ubilm-ebooks/reader.action?docID=6966413&ppg=254
Data (r)evolution: the economics of algorithmic search and recommender services. - In: Handbook on digital business ecosystems, (2022), S. 349-366
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The economics of international competition policy: new challenges in the light of digitization?. - In: The International Competition Network at twenty, (2022), S. 429-443
Does popularity matter in a TV song competition? : evidence from a national music contest. - In: Creative industries journal, ISSN 1751-0708, Bd. 0 (2022), 0, S. 1-18
A considerable amount of literature analyzes factors of success in music contests, particularly those where the audience votes for the winner. However, one aspect highlighted by the economic theory of stardom is generally neglected in the literature: the role of (pre-contest) popularity of the contestants. In this paper, we tackle this research gap by focusing on a national music contest in Germany and investigating how pre-contest popularity of the participating artists influences the final voting results. We employ two different concepts of popularity. First, we collected data on the artist’s former success (MacDonald-popularity) using music charts. Second, we proxy the media presence of the artists (Adler-popularity) using hits in traditional and new media. In our analysis, we find empirical evidence that the artist’s ex-ante popularity positively affects the outcome of voting results. Interestingly, media presence matters more than former success. Furthermore, displaying the characteristics of a one-hit-wonder harms success in the contest.
https://doi.org/10.1080/17510694.2022.2147332
Investigating user embodiment of inverse-kinematic avatars in smartphone Augmented Reality. - In: 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, (2022), S. 666-675
Smartphone Augmented Reality (AR) has already provided us with a plethora of social applications such as Pokemon Go or Harry Potter Wizards Unite. However, to enable smartphone AR for social applications similar to VRChat or AltspaceVR, proper user tracking is necessary to accurately animate the avatars. In Virtual Reality (VR), avatar tracking is rather easy due to the availability of hand-tracking, controllers, and HMD whereas smartphone AR has only the back-(and front) camera and IMUs available for this task. In this paper we propose ARIKA, a tracking solution for avatars in smartphone AR. ARIKA uses tracking information from ARCore to track the users hand position and to calculate a pose using Inverse Kinematics (IK). We compare the accuracy of our system against a commercial motion tracking system and compare both systems with respect to sense of agency, self-location, and body-ownership. For this, 20 participants observed their avatars in an augmented virtual mirror and executed a navigation and a pointing task. Our results show that participants felt a higher sense of agency and self location when using the full body tracked avatar as opposed to IK avatars. Interestingly and in favor of ARIKA, there were no significant differences in body-ownership between our solution and the full-body tracked avatars. Thus, ARIKA and it’s single-camera approach is valid solution for smartphone AR applications where body-ownership is essential.
https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR55827.2022.00084
Offene Organisationsformen und ihre Implementierung. - Ilmenau, 2022. - XIII, 173 Blätter
Technische Universität Ilmenau, Dissertation 2022
Offene Organisationsformen ermöglichen Flexibilitätsvorteile und gelten angesichts der Veränderungen in der Um- und Arbeitswelt daher als vielversprechende Gestaltungslösungen. Durch transparente Informationen, grenzüberschreitende Zusammenarbeit sowie gleichberechtigte, inklusive, selbst- und mitbestimmungsorientierte Entscheidungsfindung sollen nicht nur ökonomische, sondern auch gesellschaftlich relevante Vorteile erschlossen werden. In Anbetracht der Phänomen-getriebenen und fragmentierten Forschung zu diesen neuen Organisationsformen ist allerdings unklar, warum, wie und unter welchen Bedingungen diese Vorteile erreicht und beibehalten werden können. Insbesondere Erkenntnisse zur Implementierung offener Organisationsformen werden benötigt, zumal dem entgegenstehend der Großteil der Unternehmen bürokratisch-hierarchisch organisiert ist. Passend zu diesem Forschungsbedarf besteht das Erkenntnisinteresse dieser Arbeit darin, zu erforschen, wie und wo sich eine Organisation öffnen kann und welche Wirkungen dabei unter der Berücksichtigung von Kontextbedingungen auftreten. Dazu wird zunächst ein konzeptioneller Ordnungsrahmen zu offenen Organisationen und ihrer Implementierung im Krisenkontext geschaffen, um die sich anschließenden vier einzelnen Untersuchungen innerhalb dieses Rahmens zu verorten. Hierbei steht auf Netzwerkebene zunächst die agile Organisation unternehmensübergreifender Zusammenarbeit im Vordergrund. Projiziert auf das Entscheidungsproblem, veränderungsgerecht zu beurteilen, ob und wie sich eine Organisation gegenüber anderen öffnet, werden die Möglichkeiten plattformbasierter Ökosysteme hervorgehoben. Darauffolgend wird auf Organisationsebene der wechselseitig positive Einfluss zwischen der COVID-19-Krise bzw. deren Bewältigung und der Implementierung der Soziokratie nachgewiesen. Daran anschließend wird in dem gleichen Kontext auf Teamebene festgestellt, dass sich der pandemiebedingte Zwang virtuell zusammenzuarbeiten, nicht negativ auf die Kommunikation und Leistung auswirkte. Darüber hinaus wird auf Individualebene gezeigt, dass mittlere ManagerInnen im Zuge der Implementierung einer offenen Organisationsform in ihrer paradoxen Doppelrolle als Betroffene und Gestaltende über die Zeit unterschiedlich reagieren. Ihre Reaktionen werden dabei entscheidend von ihrer sozialen Position in der Organisation beeinflusst. Abschließend werden die Anschlussmöglichkeiten der Ergebnisse an den wissenschaftlichen und praktischen Diskurs sowie deren Implikationen aufgezeigt.
"The relationship between information asymmetry and pictures in annual reports". - In: Controlling, Accounting, Risiko, Finanzen, (2022), S. 119-134
Ochana geografičeskich ukazanij v meždunarodnoj torgovle :
Protection of geographical indications in international trade: prospects for Russia. - In: &ptbov;Ekonomika regiona, ISSN 2411-1406, Bd. 18 (2022), 3, S. 882-894
Geographical indications (GIs) represent the intellectual property rights, which protection could play a significant role in the increasing regional and national trade. The paper reveals the impact of protected GIs on international trade and provides certain recommendations for Russia. There is an evident gap in the study of the GIs effect on the development of trade links, especially for Russian enterprises. The paper applies the gravity model of trade and tests three hypotheses, whether the more protected geographical indications both exporting and importing countries have, the higher the volume of export of GI protected goods going out of this particular country and whether the existence of a trade agreement with specific provisions on the GIs protection increases trade between its members. The findings support one hypothesis that the more protected GIs the exporting country has, the higher the volume of exports of GI protected goods. Based on this result, we analyse the current situation of the GIs protection in Russia and indicate the positive trends in development of the national legislation and modern challenges in the implementation of GIs protection for the national development. The federal and regional support as well as the changes in the business strategies could lead to an increase in the Russian competitiveness. GIs could encourage the brand origin and promote the Russian products on the foreign markets.
https://doi.org/10.17059/ekon.reg.2022-3-18