Performance In Germany Research Articles

E-Procurement Systems and Organizational Performance in Germany

Purpose: The aim of the study was to analyze the e-procurement systems and organizational performance in Germany. Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries. Findings: The implementation of e-procurement has streamlined procurement processes, reducing costs and improving efficiency through automation and better supplier management. Organizations adopting e-procurement systems report enhanced transparency, reduced procurement cycle times, and improved compliance with procurement regulations. Additionally, the data-driven nature of e-procurement allows for better decision-making and strategic sourcing, contributing to overall organizational effectiveness and competitiveness in the market. Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Technology acceptance model (TAM), resource-based view (RBV) & institutional theory may be used to anchor future studies on analyze the e-procurement systems and organizational performance in Germany. Establish regular and comprehensive training programs tailored to the needs of procurement staff to ensure effective utilization of e-procurement systems. Develop a national policy framework that encourages e-procurement adoption in both public and private sectors.

Overcoming the MAUP: impact of agglomeration economies on regional performance in Germany

ABSTRACT This study analyses the impact of agglomeration economies on employment growth at the individual firm and regional levels. The analysis is based on a sample of German firms, comprising a total of 134,081. We put forward a Modifiable Areal Unit Problem-free (MAUP-free) approach for the calculation of individual firm-specific agglomeration and local growth measures based on kernel density estimates. This enables us to examine the impact of agglomeration on firm and local growth within a continuous space framework. The econometric analysis demonstrates that the effects of agglomeration economies on firm and local growth are significantly disparate.

Ophthalmological research in Germany: suggestions by an international expert panel.

To evaluate the research performance in ophthalmology in Germany based on the findings of the recent research map of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG) and to suggest strategies for future improvements on anational level both to DOG as well as to politics. The focus is on preclinical and translational clinical research. International expert panel evaluation and discussion organized by the Task Force Research of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG). The international view on the German ophthalmological research landscape was generally positive. The value for money relationship was judged as very good. As Germany is facing an aging society and vision impairment will create an ever-increasing socioeconomic burden, the reviewers suggested several lines of future activities: an increased activity of securing intellectual property, more lay audience lobbying, intensified collaboration and critical mass building between "lighthouses" of ophthalmic research in Germany, as well as the establishment of aGerman national eye institute equivalent. The ophthalmological research performance in Germany was rated to be very good by an international expert panel. Nonetheless significant improvements were requested in the fields of translation (clinical trials, IP), synergy between specialized institutions and governmental funding for aGerman center for eye research.

Gender Diversity in Corporate Leadership and Firm Financial Performance in Germany

Purpose: The aim of the study was to analyze the gender diversity in corporate leadership and firm financial performance in Germany. Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries. Findings: Gender diversity in corporate leadership is consistently linked to higher firm financial performance. Companies with more women in executive roles tend to show increased profitability and better financial returns. Diverse leadership teams bring varied perspectives that enhance decision-making and innovation. They also attract top talent more effectively, contributing to sustained competitive advantage. Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Resource-based view (RBV), social identity theory & agency theory be used to anchor future studies on gender diversity in corporate leadership and firm financial performance in Germany. Organizations should design and implement leadership development programs that specifically aim to identify and nurture female talent. Policymakers should develop and enforce guidelines that encourage gender diversity in corporate leadership.

Ophthalmological research in Germany: evaluation by an international expert panel

To evaluate the research performance in ophthalmology in Germany based on the findings of the recent research map of the German Ophthalmological Society ( DOG) and to suggest strategies for future improvements on anational level both to DOG as well as to politics. The focus is on preclinical and translational clinical research. International expert panel evaluation and discussion organized by the Task Force Research of the German Ophthalmological Society (DOG). The international view on the German ophthalmological research landscape was generally positive. The value for money relationship was judged as very good. As Germany is facing an aging society and vision impairment will create an ever-increasing socioeconomic burden, the reviewers suggested several lines of future activities: an increased activity of securing intellectual property, more lay audience lobbying, intensified collaboration and critical mass building between "lighthouses" of ophthalmic research in Germany, as well as the establishment of aGerman national eye institute equivalent. The ophthalmological research performance in Germany was rated to be very good by an international expert panel. Nonetheless significant improvements were requested in the fields of translation (clinical trials, IP), synergy between specialized institutions and governmental funding for aGerman center for eye research.

Pengaruh ESG terhadap Kinerja Perusahaan: Moderasi Board Gender Diversity

Company performance is a metric in assessing the level of success of a company in a certain period. to maintain good company performance, companies need to manage core business, namely building good relationships with stakeholders. For investors as stakeholders, the availability of information presented by the company is very important to decide on the right capital allocation and avoid the risks that occur. With the encouragement from the government and investors as stakeholders, more and more companies want to provide a clear picture of corporate practices and responsibilities, one of which is by disclosing environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) aspects. The purpose of this study to provide empirical evidence regarding the influence of ESG on company performance, provide empirical evidence regarding the role of board gender diversity on the influence of ESG on the performance of companies listed on the Stock Exchange in Indonesia and Germany in 2018-2022. The sampling technique in this study was purposive sampling. Data was taken from Thomsonreuters and this study used panel data regression analysis with STATA 17. The results of this study found that ESG has no effect on company performance in Indonesia. The results of further research found that ESG has a negative effect on company performance in Germany. This study found that board gender diversity plays a role in encouraging ESG activities to improve firm performance in Germany.

Impact of Digital Transformation on Firm Performance: A Comparative Study of Germany

Purpose: The aim of the study was to analyze the impact of digital transformation on firm performance: a comparative study of Germany. Methodology: This study adopted a desk methodology. A desk study research design is commonly known as secondary data collection. This is basically collecting data from existing resources preferably because of its low cost advantage as compared to a field research. Our current study looked into already published studies and reports as the data was easily accessed through online journals and libraries. Findings: The comparative study on digital transformation's impact on firm performance in Germany reveals that embracing digitalization leads to improved productivity, efficiency, and innovation. It also emphasizes how digital technologies enhance market competitiveness, expand customer reach, and drive revenue growth and profitability. Strategic planning and organizational adaptability are crucial for firms to maximize the benefits of digital transformation. Overall, the findings underscore the transformative potential of digitalization for German firms, necessitating proactive adoption and continuous adaptation to remain competitive. Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: Resource-based view (RBV), institutional theory & dynamic capabilities theory may be used to anchor future studies on analyze the impact of digital transformation on firm performance: a comparative study of Germany. Firms should focus on enhancing employee digital literacy, establishing cross-functional teams, and embracing a customer-centric mindset to drive innovation and growth in the digital age. Policymakers play a crucial role in creating an enabling environment for digital innovation and entrepreneurship.

Catching-up or falling behind? Wage prospects and labor market performance in Germany *

Catching-up or falling behind? Wage prospects and labor market performance in Germany *

Does the journal impact factor reflect the impact of German medical guideline contributions?

Contributions to medical guidelines, so far, have hardly been considered in the measurement and evaluation of research performance in Germany. We therefore examined 70 high-quality medical guidelines from the years 2017 and 2018 and investigated the type of publications cited by the guidelines, whether the citation rates of articles differ between substantiating guideline recommendations and background text, and whether or not the Journal Impact Factor is correlated with the guidelines’ citation frequency of individual journals. Our study found that the guidelines cited original articles much more than books, reviews, or other guidelines. Slightly less than 10% of the citations came from the 2 years preceding guideline publication, and more than 50% of the references were at least 8 years old. A subsample showed that articles which only provided background information were cited less frequently outside the guidelines than those that substantiated a specific recommendation. Lastly, there was only a weak correlation (0.1 ≤ Tau ≤ 0.35) between the citations counts of individual journals in the guidelines and their respective JIFs despite guideline subject. Our study suggests that the JIF is not an appropriate tool to assess the clinical relevance of medical research.

Evidence of Synchronization between Solar Activity and Agricultural Performance in Germany

Evidence of Synchronization between Solar Activity and Agricultural Performance in Germany

The consequences of social category faultlines in high- and low-context cultures: A comparative study of Brazil and Germany.

The present study sheds light on how differences between high- and low-context cultures influence the consequences of social category faultlines. To develop our theoretical arguments, we integrate ideas from faultline theory and Hall's theory on cultural contexts. We test our hypotheses using survey data from 54 teams in the banking industry in Germany, a nation with a low-context culture, and in Brazil, a country with a high-context culture. In line with our theorizing, the study results reveal that whether social category faultline strength stimulates task conflict and is thus detrimental to team performance depends on the societal culture in which teams operate. Specifically, we observe that social category faultlines stimulate task conflict and thus have a negative indirect effect on team performance in Germany's low-context culture, while we find no such effects in the high-context culture of Brazil. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of our study and close with some suggestions for future research.

Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on reading performance of second grade children in Germany

In education, among the most anticipated consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic are that student performance will stagnate or decline and that existing inequities will increase. Although some studies suggest a decline in student performance and widening learning gaps, the picture is less clear than expected. In this study, we add to the existing literature on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on student achievement. Specifically, we provide an analysis of the short- and mid-term effects of the pandemic on second grade reading performance in Germany using longitudinal assessments from over 19,500 students with eight measurement points in each school year. Interestingly, the effects of the pandemic established over time. Students in the first pandemic cohort even outperformed students from the pre-pandemic cohorts and showed a tendency towards decreased variances during the first lockdown. The second pandemic cohort showed no systematic mean differences, but generally had larger interindividual differences as compared to the pre-pandemic cohorts. While the gender achievement gap seemed unaffected by the pandemic, the gap between students with and without a migration background widened over time—though even before the pandemic. These results underline the importance of considering effects of the pandemic across cohorts, large samples, and fine-grained assessments. We discuss our findings considering the context-specific educational challenges and in terms of practical implications for teachers’ professional development.

Untimeliness and the Balkan Queer Diaspora in Dennis Todorović’s Sasha

The protagonist in Dennis Todorović’s Sasha (2010) is caught in the midst of competing claims on his future. While his mother ardently nurtures his piano practice, insisting on a career in musical performance in Germany, his father hopes his entire family will return back to their homeland—Montenegro. During his coming out phase, Saša also confronts a mainstream queer culture that does not quite provide him with means by which to fully negotiate his status as a diasporic queer subject. As this article argues, Todorović’s film articulates these struggles primarily by casting the protagonist’s queerness as untimely. More precisely, because some of the characters in the film offer Saša non-affirmative means by which to realize a life trajectory grounded in his own experience and desires, the film imagines life in the Balkan queer diaspora to be out of rhythm with the temporalities that govern diasporic, mainstream, and queer mainstream life. Here, the film becomes a means by which to theorize Balkan queer diasporic life on the basis of the deferral strategies that diasporic queers deploy to navigate an unideal world.

Assessment of health system performance in Germany: Survey-based insights into the perspective of people with private health insurance.

The World Health Organization (WHO) defined intermediate and overall goals to assess the performance of health systems. As the population perspective becomes more important for improving health systems, the aim of this study was to gain insights into the perspective of people with private health insurance (PHI) in Germany along the predefined WHO goals. A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2018 among people with PHI in Germany. The questionnaire included items on all intermediate (access, coverage, quality, and safety) and overall WHO goals (improved health, responsiveness, social and financial risk protection, and improved efficiency). Descriptive analyses were conducted for the total sample and subgroups (gender, age, income, and health status). In total, 3601 respondents (age 58.5±14.6; 64.7% male) assessed the German health system. For example, 3.3%-7.5% of the respondents with subjective needs reported forgone care in the past 12months due to waiting time, distance, or financial reasons and 14.4% suspected medical errors in their care. During the last physician visit 94.2% experienced respectful treatment but only 60.6% perceived coordination of care as good. Unnecessary health services were perceived by 24.2%. For many items significant subgroup differences were found, particularly for age groups (18-64 vs. 65+). Conducting a health system performance assessment from the population perspective gained new and unique insights into the perception of people with PHI in Germany. Areas to improve the health system were seen in, for example, coordination of care, financial risk protection, and quality of care, and inequalities between subgroups were identified.

Is more diverse always the better? External knowledge source clusters and innovation performance in Germany

ABSTRACT This study gives a new identity to a knowledge search mode named search diversity and investigates how it is more rigorous in capturing knowledge heterogeneity in comparison to general assessment of search breadth. By distinguishing between diversifying and expanding search domain as building blocks of broadening search scope, this study proposes a hybrid search strategy when it comes to analysis of the link between external search and innovation performance. While a positive trend is found for search breadth and innovation in this article, search diversity indicates a curvilinear pattern but with a steeper positivity than search breadth. A prerequisite extension of this article is to use a clustering method among different external sources acting as a reference to codify a diversity index for measuring the new search scheme. In addition, the effect of usage of each cluster on innovation is empirically illustrated. This article suggests that the optimal hybrid search outlook in respect to innovation is built up by initially increasing diversity in search up to the downturn point and then shifting into usage of same source clusters without helping diversity. This analysis provides practitioners with additional insights for managing external sourcing strategies and leveraging innovativeness.

한트케의 침묵극에 나타난 몸담론의 의미 : 「우리가 서로 알 수 없었던 시간」의 예에서

In February 2019, Handke’s silent play, entitled “Die Stunde da wir nichts voneinander wußten”, was performed in Seoul. The play was originally completed and had its maiden performance in Germany in 1992. Handke’s play brought social issues to the stage in a unique way through silence and body language. In an era where existing plays were produced based on lines and dialogue, this play, stood out in stark contrast. This silent play received little attention as it was overshadowed by various forms of experimentation in postmodernist plays. Handke was making a declaration of independence through his play, which he viewed from an aesthetical point of view with critical acceptance, to escape from the world of existing dialogue based plays and broaden the audience’s opportunity to become actual participants. Handke’s reputation as an avant-garde playwright was established in the early 70’s with his play “Publikumsbeschimpfung” and his play, “Die Stunde da wir nichts voneinander wußten” has only strengthened this reputation. “Die Stunde da wir nichts voneinander wußten” is a play which is born out of the remorse for modern people’s misuse of oral language and the existentiality which is to never give up. Handke’s aim was to focus on one’s self existence instead of the private possession of one’s self. Handke endeavoured to pursue the formation and dissolution of one’s self, through physicality and purposefully used silence to enhance that physicality. Using body language, Handke managed to replace the lethargic language found in traditional plays that do not express the extent of everyday painful realities. The meaning of body discourse in “Die Stunde da wir nichts voneinander wußten” tells the importance of communication through body language which has been forgotten and replaced by spoken language. At least for this reason alone, Hantke's journey to a new theatrical world best reflects the philosophical intent of communication by the original author Hantke to penetrate a world of alienation, loneliness and indifference in the human race.

Stability and interplay between students’ commitment to a study programme and the quality of teaching and their relevance for academic performance in Germany

ABSTRACT Quality of teaching and student commitment to their study programme in higher education are considered to be important aspects of the learning process and of achievement behaviour. The focus of the investigation was to analyse the (1) changes in students’ commitment to their study programme and in their perceptions of the quality of teaching, (2) their interactions, and (3) their compound effect on students’ overall achievements in the study programme. We analysed data from 402 students in a cross-lagged panel design. Results show that the quality of teaching determines both the level of and changes in students’ future commitment to their study programme. Furthermore, students’ commitment to their study programme mediated both their perceptions of the quality of teaching and their later academic achievement.

Reinforcing at the Top or Compensating at the Bottom? Family Background and Academic Performance in Germany, Norway, and the United States

Abstract Research on educational mobility usually studies socioeconomic differences at the mean of children’s academic performance but fails to consider the variation in the shape of socioeconomic differences across the outcome distribution. Theories of social mobility as well as theories about the resource allocation within families predict such variation. We use quantile regression models to estimate variation in socioeconomic differences across the distribution of academic performance using different indicators of family background (parental education, occupation, earnings, and wealth). We apply this approach to data on Germany, Norway, and the United States, three countries that represent different welfare and education regimes that may affect the intergenerational transmission of educational advantage. We find stronger socioeconomic differences at the bottom than at the middle and the smallest differences at the top of the performance distribution. These findings are virtually identical across all four indicators of family background. We also find no cross-national differences in the shape of socioeconomic differences in academic performance.

PCN328 CHANGING EPIDEMIOLOGY AND TREATMENT ALGORITHM IN PANCREATIC CANCER IN GERMANY 2017-2018

The incidence rate of pancreatic cancer is increasing due to a growing older population and improved diagnostic methods. Recent clinical guidelines suggested new treatment options in metastatic pts with good performance in Germany. We aimed to deliver evidence based insights into structural changes in treated prevalence and into patient characteristics determining the treatment choice. The accordance with clinical guidelines indicates the quality of cancer care. Based on primary and secondary research the palliative treated prevalence in pancreatic cancer was assessed at the baseline Q1/2017. Subsequently, we updated the data in quarterly surveys in a representative sample representing ∼10% of treated prevalence. The clinical real world data was collected retrospectively and anonymously annually. Despite increasing treated prevalence the mean number of pts eligible for palliative treatment in metastatic pancreatic cancer in one quarter decreased slightly in this period by 3 % (5481 pts 2017, 5319 pts 2018). The number of pts treated with neo- or adjuvant therapy in stage I-III increased by 11% between Q3/17 - Q3/18 (4499 pts vs 4993 pts). Relevant patient characteristics with an impact on treatment choice did not change significantly in the observational period: ECOG 0-1 91%/2017, 90% 2018. The majority of 1st line metastatic pts is eligible for a regimen recommended in the guidelines. The triplet regimen FOLFIRINOX was adopted fast in the 1st line in ECOG 0-1 pts (19% 2017, 31% 2018). This research reveals a changing composition of increasing pancreatic cancer prevalence in Germany. Due to improved diagnostics an increasing number of pts is eligible for surgery and (neo)adjuvant therapy. The majority of 1st line metastatic patients is treated with FOLFOXIRI or Gem+nab-paclitaxel in compliance with clinical guidelines.

Toward sustainable development: A methodology for evaluating environmental planning systems

AbstractAt the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the world's national governments committed to preparing strategies to achieve sustainable development. This paper describes an evaluation framework for measuring the success of these efforts to achieve environmental goals in sustainable development. The framework evaluates two dimensions of sustainable development planning: the environmental planning system, and environmental outcomes. An application of the methodology to evaluate environmental performance in Germany illustrates that the proposed method is relatively easy to apply, transparent, and identifies the strengths and weaknesses of a country's environmental performance.