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With this dissertation, I present a human resources approach to entrepreneurship through selection and training of small-business owners in developing countries. Entrepreneurship is an important source of employment, innovation, and general economic prosperity (Autio, 2005; Walter et al., 2005; Reynolds et al., 2005; Kuratko, 2003). In developing countries, job creation through business ownership is especially important because job opportunities are limited (Walter et al., 2005; Mead & Liedholm, 1998). Strengthening the small business sector is one of the best ways to reduce poverty and increase economic growth (Birch, 1987). Thus, this dissertation adds to the scientific literature in taking a human resources approach to entrepreneurship: selecting and training entrepreneurs. Selection has widely been researched on in various scientific fields like human resource management, industrial-, work-, and organizational psychology, but only partly focusing on selection of entrepreneurs. Regarding training, there exists a fair amount of studies that focus on entrepreneurship education, but a lot of them suffer from substantial heterogeneity and methodological flaws (Glaub & Frese (2011); McKenzie & Woodruff (2013)). The dissertation combines the ideas of using selection procedures for entrepreneurs with the idea of teaching entrepreneurial skills.
A matter of connection: Competence development in teacher education for sustainable development
(2021)
In response to the globally increasing environmental, social, and economic crises, we as humanity must leave the path of business as usual and learn new ways to know, think, and act which may enable us to build a more sustainable future for all. In their role as facilitators, teachers in general are considered one, if not the most important, factor for successful learning. The implementation of education for sustainable development (ESD) across all education systems and preparing students to act as future change agents and lead the societal transformation towards sustainability also largely depends on competent and committed teachers. Correspondingly, the focus of political agendas and scientific research increasingly shifts to the effective education of educators.
The different competence models that are currently being discussed in the international discourse around teacher education for sustainable development (TESD) suggest various sets of intended learning outcomes (ILOs). Yet, they usually share the assumption that teachers require ESD-related knowledge, pedagogical skills, and motivation to successfully implement ESD at the school level. In accordance with the concept of ESD-specific professional action competence (Bertschy et al., 2013), educational offers in ESD for pre-service teachers should also develop their content knowledge (CK), pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) as well as a positive attitude towards ESD. However, in the sense of a comprehensive construct, this concept has not yet been operationalized or measured. Furthermore, there is still a lack of deeper understanding as to how to best design individual courses as teaching and learning environments in TESD in order to support competence development in student teachers.
Based on a dual case study, this cumulative dissertation investigates how individual ESD courses, as part of the teacher education programs at Leuphana University in Lüneburg/ Germany and Arizona State University (ASU) in Tempe/USA, actually foster students’ ESD-specific professional action competence. Furthermore, this work sheds light on the link between learning processes and outcomes, to reveal which factors actually affect the achievement of ILOs and competence development.
The findings of this study indicate that both courses under investigation eventually live up to their role and increased student teachers’ competence and commitment to implement ESD in their future careers; yet, mainly due to their different thematic foci, to varying degrees. Additionally, the four Cs (personal, professional, social, and structural connections) were revealed as significant factors that support students’ learning and should be considered when planning and designing course offerings in TESD, with the goal of developing students’ knowledge, skills, and attitudes.
Against the backdrop of aging populations, labor shortages, and a longer healthy life expectancy, there has recently been considerable discussion of the great potential that post-retirement activities hold for individuals, organizations, and society alike. This dissertation consists of three empirical papers investigating the life reality of active retirees in Germany. In addition, framework conditions and motivational structures that need to be considered in creating jobs for this group of workers are examined. The first paper identifies the prerequisites for productivity after retirement age and describes the changed nature of modern-day retirement. Current levels of post-retirement work are quantified by reference to German Microcensus data. The data show that adults continue to engage in paid employment beyond the applicable retirement age, with self-employment and unpaid work in family businesses making up the greatest share of post-retirement activities. Qualitative data collected from 146 active retirees (mean age = 67 years, standard deviation = 4) showed that the changes entailed in retirement include more flexible structures in everyday life. Content analysis revealed that reasons for taking up post-retirement activities were the desire to help, pass on knowledge, or remain active; personal development and contact with others; and a desire for appreciation and recognition. In addition, flexible working hours and the freedom to make decisions are evidently important aspects that need to be taken into account in creating employment activities for silver workers. The second paper extends the findings of the first paper by investigating the differences that respondents experienced between their former career job and their post-retirement activities, drawing on an additional quantitative sample of active retirees (N = 618, mean age = 69 years, standard deviation = 4). Factor analysis revealed differences in four areas: First, differences were identified in person-related variables, such as work ability. Second, differences were perceived in the scope of the job itself with regard to workers’ tasks, skills, or job function. Third, the perceived freedom of time allocation and flexibility in job practice distinguished between the silver job and the former career job. Fourth, differences were noted in perceived responsibility and in the significance of the activity. The third paper further examined how relevant personal motivational goals (achievement, appreciation, autonomy, contact, and generativity) as well as corresponding occupational characteristics of the silver job were related to life and work satisfaction in the quantitative sample (N = 661, mean age = 69 years, standard deviation = 4). Hierarchical regression analyses showed that the motivational goals of achievement, appreciation, autonomy, contact, and generativity significantly predicted life satisfaction, whereas only generativity predicted work satisfaction. With respect to the occupational characteristics, none of the situational predictors influenced life satisfaction, but opportunities to fulfill one’s achievement goals, to pass on knowledge, and to experience appreciation and autonomy predicted work satisfaction. The results suggest that post-retirement workers seem to differentiate between perceived life satisfaction and work satisfaction as two independent constructs. In conclusion, key motives for taking up post-retirement activities were generativity (the wish to help and pass on knowledge), but also personal development, appreciation, autonomy, and contact. The findings indicate that organizations should introduce flexible working hours, and offer silver workers advisory and freelance work. Providing freedom to make decisions and ensuring due appreciation of the contribution made by silver workers will lead to a fruitful interplay of silver workers and organizations. Future research should build on these findings by applying longitudinal designs and drawing on samples of retirees with more diverse educational and financial backgrounds. The papers of this dissertation echo the call for a new, more positive way of looking at the capacities of active retirees.
Actual Virtuality: the Arts
(2006)
In this dissertation, advanced nonlinear control strategies and nonlinear minimum-variance observation are combined, in order to improve the estimation and/or tracking quality within control and fault detection tasks, for several types of systems from the fields of electromobility and conventional drivetrain technology that have some potential for sustainability or performance improvements.
The application-specific innovations in terms of nonlinear Kalman filter methods are:
* Improved state of charge estimation for Lithium-ion battery cells, powered by a novel self-adaptive EKF that uses a high-order polynomial curve fit as a decomposition of the uncertain nonlinear output equation with intentionally redundant bases, and with a reduced number of polynomial parameters that are adapted online by the EKF itself.
* Online estimation of the time delay between two periodic signals of roughly the same shape that have pronounced uncorrelated noise, based on a fractional-order approximation of the transcendent transfer function of the time delay which is used as a model in a novel kind of EKF.
* Using two (E)KFs (one for the linear subsystem and one for the nonlinear subsystem of a new kind of multi-stage piezo-hydraulic actuator) in a cascaded loop structure in order to reduce the computation load of the estimation, by appropriate 'interfacing' between the two observers (using one shared system model equation, among other aspects).
The innovations in terms of nonlinear control methods are powered by observation, as well:
* Sliding mode velocity control of a DC drive that is subject to nonlinear friction and unknown load torques, enhanced by an equivalent control law, and with a new intelligent switching gain adaptation scheme (for reduced control chattering and, thus, less energy consumption and actuator wear), which is powered by Taylor-linearized model predictive control, which in turn requires observer-based disturbance compensation (by a KF with a double-integrator disturbance model) for model-matching purposes in order to function correctly.
* Direct speed control of permanent-magnet three-phase synchronous motors that have a high power-to-volume ratio, based on sliding mode control in a rotating d,q coordinate system, with a new equivalent control method that exploits both system inputs and with a secondary sliding surface to ensure compliance with the current-trajectory of maximum efficiency for the required torque, and which works without measurement of the rotor angle (thanks to a new kind of EKF that estimates all states in the stationary α,β coordinate system, as well as the disturbance/load torque and its derivative).
In all instances, improvements (compared to methods existing in the literature) in terms of control and estimation performance have been achieved and confirmed using simulation studies or real experiments.
Agro-biodiversity can provide natural insurance to risk averse farmers. We employ a conceptual ecological-economic model to analyze the choice of agrobiodiversity by risk averse farmers who have access to financial insurance. We study the implications for individually and socially optimal agro-ecosystem management and policy design when on-farm agro-biodiversity, through ecosystem processes at higher hierarchical levels, generates a positive externality on other farmers. We show that for the individual farmer natural insurance from agro-biodiversty and financial insurance are substitutes. While an improved access to financial insurance leads to lower agro-biodiversity, the e_ects on the market failure problem (due to the external benefits of on-farm agro-biodiversity) and on welfare are determined by properties of the agro-ecosystem and agro-biodiversity’s external benefits. We derive a specific condition on agro-ecosystem functioning under which, if financial insurance becomes more accessible, welfare in the absence of regulation increases or decreases.
Halogenated flame retardants (HFRs) have been applied since the 1960s in various industrial and consumer products to protect humans as well as private and public possessions. In the past decade polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), formerly the major applied HFRs were widely restricted and adopted as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in the Stockholm Convention due to their adverse effects on humans and the environment as well as their ubiquitous occurrence in the global environment. Besides PBDEs, various alternative HFRs have been applied for decades as well, or were recently developed to replace PBDEs. However, their potential adverse properties, environmental distribution and fate are largely unknown. Therefore, this thesis addresses the global occurrence, distribution and transport of alternative HFRs versus PBDEs in the marine atmosphere and seawater toward the Polar Regions in order to examine their longrange atmospheric transport (LRAT) potential. This thesis presents the first data on alternative HFRs in the atmosphere of the marine environment and the Polar Regions. Alternative brominated flame retardants (BFRs), Dechlorane compounds and PBDEs were investigated in high-volume air and seawater samples taken along several sampling transects in the Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean toward the Polar Regions of the Arctic and Antarctic. In addition, three sampling cruises were conducted in the German Bight, North Sea. Several alternative HFRs were detected in the global marine atmosphere and seawater with hexabromobenzene (HBB), pentabromotoluene (PBT), pentabromobenzene (PBBz), 2,3- dibromopropyl-2,4,6-tribromophenyl ether (DPTE) and Dechlorane Plus (DP) being the predominant compounds which were observed in concentrations similar or even higher than PBDEs. Total atmospheric concentrations ranged from <1 pg m-3 over the open oceans up to 42 pg m-3 over the East Indian Archipelago. Seawater concentrations ranged from <1 pg L-1 in open ocean seawater up to 21 pg L-1 in coastal regions, while estuarine concentrations reached up to 6800 pg L-1. Overall, the comparison revealed that alternative HFRs dominate versus PBDEs in air and seawater, both in coastal regions as well as the Polar Regions, showing a shift from PBDEs toward alternative HFR in the marine atmosphere and seawater. The distribution in the global atmosphere was strongly influenced by the proximity to potential source regions and the pathway of the sampled air masses. Highest concentrations were observed in continentally influenced air masses, while low background concentrations occurred during sampling of oceanic remote air masses. In general, Western Europe, East and Southeast Asia but also Africa were identified as source regions for the marine environment, especially for alternative HFRs as well as BDE-209. In contrast, relatively low peak concentrations of the PBDE congeners of the Penta- and OctaBDE mixtures under continental influence were observed, indicating limited emissions of legacy PBDEs. The dry air-seawater gas exchange estimation showed that the atmosphere is a source for seawater resulting in net deposition into the global oceans after atmospheric emissions and transport, both in coastal regions as well as in the open oceans. Besides atmospheric depositions, riverine discharge was shown to act as source for coastal environments. The investigation of sampling transects toward the Polar Regions revealed that several alternative HFRs – in particular HBB, PBT, DPTE, PBBz and DP – undergo LRAT toward the Polar Regions in an extent similar to PBDEs and, therefore, meet the LRAT criterion of POPs under the Stockholm Convention. DP was found to undergo LRAT attached to airborne particles whereby stereoselective LRAT differences were shown for the two DP stereoisomers. With respect to LRAT, the results of this thesis therefore imply that alternative HFRs – in particular HBB, PBT, DPTE and DP – aren’t suitable replacements for PBDEs, but chemicals of emerging global environmental concern and possible future POPs.
The European Union’s Council Regulation on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development has introduced auctioning as a new instrument for granting agri-environmental payments and awarding conservation contracts for the recent multi-annual budgetary plan. This paper therefore deals with the conception and results of two case study auctions for conservation contracts. Results of two field experiments show much differentiated bid prices in the model-region and budgetary cost-effectiveness gains of up to 21% in the first auction and up to 36% in the repeated auction. Besides these promising results, some critical aspects as well as lessons to be learned will also be discussed in this paper to improve the design and performance of upcoming conservation auctions.
This dissertation includes an introduction and five empirical papers focusing on the educational and career decision-making process of individuals in Germany. The five papers embrace different determinants of educational and career decisions including school performance, social background, leisure activities as well as professional expectations, and contribute to the existing literature in this research area. Chapter 2 of this dissertation (written jointly with Christian Pfeifer) begins by analysing the nexus between students’ time allocation and school performance in terms of grades and satisfaction with their own performance in mathematics, the German language and a first foreign language, as well as overall achievement. While previous studies have primarily focused on isolated activities, this chapter looks at the heterogeneity of three important extracurricular activities: student jobs, sports and participation in music. Moreover, the heterogeneity of each activity is addressed by accounting for different types of the particular activity and differences in the number of years the activity has been pursued. For this purpose, data from the German SOEP, as a representative panel survey of private households and people in Germany, in particular cross-sectional survey data of 3388 students who are about 17 years old and enrolled in a German secondary school, were used. The main findings are that having a job as a student is negatively correlated with school performance, whereas participation in sports and music is positively correlated. However, the results reveal heterogeneity in each activity, especially with respect to intensity. Chapter 3 addresses the concrete post-school decision of school students, in particular whether to study or to enter the German VET system. It focuses on individual risk preferences and the social background of individuals and how these determinants affect the ultimate decision to enrol in university or to start an apprenticeship given the same level of qualification. For the empirical approach data from the German SOEP were used, in particular information on individuals’ educational decisions between 2007 and 2013. The results indicate that (i) individual risk preferences do not have an overall effect on the real transition; (ii) privileged individuals are more likely to take up higher education; and (iii) compared to highly educated parents, parents without an academic background are less likely to guide their children into tertiary education, regardless of how much they support their children with their school work. Chapter 4 deals with the reconsideration of educational decisions in terms of early contract cancellations in VET (Vocational Education and Training). In particular, the effects of a second job on the intention to cancel a VET contract early are analysed for apprentices in Germany. To date, the literature in this research area mainly focuses on income as a determinant of early contract cancellation in VET, but is lacking in investigations of the consequences of low income during an apprenticeship, such as the need for a second job. For the empirical approach the representative German firm-level study ‘BIBB Survey Vocational Training from the Trainee’s Point of View 2008’, conducted by the Federal Institute for Vocational Education and Training (BIBB), is used. The survey contains 5901 apprentices that were interviewed during their second year of apprenticeship (205 schools, 340 classes, and 15 common occupations). Furthermore, it includes the design, procedures, basic conditions, and quality criteria of apprenticeships. The applied probit regressions show a higher intention to quit if apprentices require a secondary job to cover their living costs.
In Chapter 5, new data on 191 apprentices from a vocational school, located in a northern German federal state, are used to validate the empirical results of Chapter 4. This chapter presents new insights into secondary-job-related burdens during apprenticeship. Due to limitations in the data, the applied empirical approach in Chapter 4 lacks to analyse how holding multiple jobs increases the intention to leave an apprenticeship early. Therefore, Chapter 5 includes the investigations of burdens related to the second job. The results indicate a lower intention to quit the apprenticeship if an apprentice holds a second job to cover living costs. However, secondary jobs are linked to lower quality of training, which, on the other hand, increases the intention to leave the apprenticeship early. Furthermore, the probability of secondary-job-related burdens increases with the number of working hours. Chapter 6 concludes the thesis by investigating subjective determinants of early contract cancellations in VET. It examines ten questions on what apprentices want to achieve and how unfulfilled expectations affect the intention to leave the apprenticeship early. To date, research on early contract cancellation in VET has concentrated on objective determinants, such as income, schooling level, age, gender, or migration background. Hence, the findings of this investigation contributes to the existing research on early contract cancellation. The questions considered include information on the performance, personal development, career development and prospects or position in society and their meaning to apprentices. For the research approach, the ‘BIBB Survey Vocational Training from the Trainee’s Point of View 2008’ is considered again. The probit and ordered probit regressions applied show significant effects of job characteristics that represent job security. The expectation of being retained after an apprenticeship and the encouragement to consistently train further decrease the intention to leave the apprenticeship early. Furthermore, women appear to be more affected by job security signals than men, but they also sort more often into occupations with lower retention probabilities. Consequently, this result may be an indication of occupational segregation rather than a sign of differences between sexes.