Search Results - German Empire

Empire and national character: British imperialism in books from the "Third Reich" by Stiles, Victoria

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German global soft power, 1700-1920 by McLelland, Nicola

Subjects: “…German as a foreign language (GFL)…”
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The Effect of Stress Testing on German Bank Efficiency by Uelner, Christopher Jens

“…The empirical results of this study suggest that despite adverse conditions, the average cost X-efficiency of German banks rises marginally and remains high for all banking groups, which is in line with the 2014 EU-wide stress test. …”
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Between concentration and pluralisation: the West German press in the 1970s by Kraiker, Christian Welfhard

“…The development of the West German press in the 1970s has so far been described as a transition from a period of concentration (1954-1976) to stabilisation (1976-1985). …”
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An Econometric Analysis of Efficiency and Loan Loss Provisioning Behaviour in German Banking by Bochert, Carsten

“…Moreover, the empirical findings from the GMM estimators provide evidence for the existence of procyclical provisioning behaviour and they support the capital management hypothesis, whereas the results do not indicate that German banks use loan loss provisions to smooth their income. …”
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Incentives of derivative hedging: Evidence from German non-financial corporations by Pfleiderer, Felix

“…This thesis empirically investigates the determinants of derivative hedging by German non-financial corporations. …”
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The role of the German political foundations in international relations: transnational actors in public diplomacy by Sieker, Marianne

“…This theoretically informed empirical study aims at first contributing to the object of the German political foundations’ international undertakings which has been subject to little research so far. …”
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Knowledge Transfer, Innovation, Cultural Intelligence & Firm Performance Among German Mncs Subsidiary In Malaysia by Ooi, Zheng Yao

“…This study highlights the importance of knowledge transfer and innovation as fundamental sources of competitive advantage that improve the firm performance of subsidiaries of German multinational companies (MNCs) operating in Malaysia. …”
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Participation in continuous, on-the-job training and the impact on job satisfaction: longitudinal evidence from the German labour market by Georgellis, Y., Lange, Thomas

“…We use data derived from the German Socio-economic Panel, which covers the period 1984 to 2002. …”
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Using corpora to track changing thought styles: evidentiality, epistemology, and Early Modern English and German scientific discourse by Whitt, Richard J.

“…This paper begins to fill this gap by presenting the results of a corpus-based study of evidential markers in Early Modern scientific discourse in English and German. The Early Modern period witnessed the transition from scholastic-based models of science to more empirical models of enquiry; this study demonstrates a decrease in the use of markers of mediated information and an increase in the use of markers of direct observation and inference accompanying these sociohistorical developments.…”
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The determinants of corporate risk management practices and the impact of hedging activities on firms’ risk: evidences from German nonfinancial companies by Leva, Noemi

“…The final sample comprises 397 German nonfinancial companies observed over a period of 6 years, from 2010 to 2015. …”
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Knowledge Management and Tourism - Knowledge Transfer in the Hospitality Industry: From A Germany Perspective by Braun, Christine

“…The use of knowledge management has gained increased interest from academics and practitioners, however there is still a lack of empirical research in tourism and is particularly underdeveloped in the hospitality industry. …”
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Vocalism in the Continental runic inscriptions by Findell, Martin

“…The thesis presents a brief outline of the late Proto-Germanic vocalic system and of the principal sound changes involved in the development of the later dialects of the region (Old High German and Old Saxon). …”
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Knowledge spillover effects in German knowledge-intensive industries by Hájek, Petr, Stejskal, Jan

“…However, there has been little discussion about the synergistic effects of knowledge spillovers and R&D collaboration.This paper examines the role of three types of knowledge spillovers, namely internal, market and institutional.R&D collaboration mediates the knowledge spillovers effects in the proposed structural equation models.This study demonstrates that German knowledge-intensive firms prefer internal knowledge transfer and market R&D collaboration, respectively.The empirical evidence shows that these tools promote innovation performance. …”
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"Whatever you do, do not let a boy grow up without Latin": a comparative study of nineteenth-century Latin textbooks in English and Prussian education by Kirk, Sonya

“…This dissertation fills a gap in Anglo-German historiography for the nineteenth century from three intertwined perspectives: cultural history, the history of education and the history of linguistic ideas, by investigating how textbook authors treated Latin grammar in the light of cultural ideologies (including the role of Classics in elite education, education for empire) and developments in pedagogy and philology, at a time when formal education was just becoming established, and when curriculum design, educational administration, and educational philosophy in England were all heavily influenced by German scholarship. …”
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"Volkskultur": Aspekte einer kulturtheoretischen Debatte in Wissenschaft und Literatur, Wien/Prag 1884-1939 by König, Anna-Maria

“…Part IIanalyses the relations between German Philology in Prague and the German-speaking Jews in the Prague Circle,namely Oskar Baum, Max Brad, Franz Kafka and Felix Weltsch. …”
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Dispute resolution: adversarial system and inquisitorial system by Ali Mohamed, Ashgar Ali, Ahmad, Muhamad Hassan

“…It was further developed during the Roman Empire and evolved into a series of codes across Europe such as the Civil Code of Napoleon, the German Civil Code and the Italian Civil Code.1 The obvious feature in the civil law system is that its ‘core principles are codified into a referable system which serves as the primary source of law.’ …”
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Industry 4.0 – The Evolution of Business Models by Kainer, Leonard

“…Furthermore, similarities and differences in such changes across various industries were included in the specific findings of the data analysis. The empirical findings demonstrate that each of the German SMEs has already implemented I4.0-related technologies. …”
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The time and space of Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi’s Pan-Europe, 1923-1939 by Thorpe, Benjamin J.

“…Second, it looks at the way in which Pan-Europeanism employed a form of spatial reasoning that shared many points of reference with the German school of geopolitik, despite a fundamentally incompatible view of international politics. …”
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Intervention at the level of the firm: employer-sponsored training and wage growth in post-unification Germany by Georgellis, Y., Lange, Thomas

“…Design/methodology/approach – Following a descriptive narrative on further training and wages in Germany, data derived from the West German sub-sample of the German Socio-Economic Panel is being utilised, which has the main advantage of providing detailed information about the respondents' labour market histories prior to and after 1992. …”
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