The effect of Dutch and German cultures on negotiation strategy comparing operations and innovation management in the supply chain

negotiation, strategy, culture, Dutch, German

Amina : Egyptian Serenade

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The creation of a single European Gas Market: Lessons to be learnt from the Dutch, Austrian and German gas markets: What is required to create a more harmonised, liberalised and secure European Gas Market?

PhDEU Member States are being confronted with a range of varied and complex issues within their energy markets, which require considerable effort and ingenuity to mitigate. Theses issues and problems are particularly apparent in the European natural gas market. Natural gas has become one of the key elements of the energy mix in a number of EU Member States and continues to develop rapidly in newly emerging gas markets. A lack of significant natural gas resource endowments in much of the EU means that many Member States have become highly dependent on gas imports, particularly from non-EU countries. Despite the European Commission's long held objective of bringing about both a harmonised and a liberalised EU gas market, this aim remains far from being reached. This is attributable to a discernible reluctance within some Member States and various gas industry stakeholders to work on the creation of such a market and, in so doing, to simultaneously address the increasingly important issue of security of supply. Within this context, and as individual markets continue to liberalise ahead of full market opening in July 2007, it becomes increasingly apparent that existing EU legislation is often insufficient to establish a harmonised and fully liberalised single European gas market that also supports security of gas supply. This thesis addresses the question of what conditions are required to create a more harmonised, liberalised and secure EU gas market. This analysis is undertaken in the following manner. First, the issue of security of supply is discussed in the context of the currently changing legal and regulatory structure across the EU. It then analyses existing EU legislation, guidelines and Commission decisions and examines how these documents support the establishment of a liberalised and harmonised single European gas market that addresses security of supply issues. Following this discussion the thesis then undertakes case studies of three key and pivotal European gas markets - The Netherlands, Austria and Germany - to analyse (with specific reference to individual gas market characteristics) whether national legislation will serve to improve overall EU gas market harmonisation and liberalisation efforts. Finally, this thesis concludes with specific recommendations on what is necessary to create a more harmonised and liberalised EU gas market that also supports security of gas supply

Gavotte Des Vers Luisants : Gavotte Idylle

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Die sprachliche Kategorisierung des ägyptischen Ortes Sile (Tjaru) aus prototypentheoretischer Sicht

In der ägyptologischen Forschung werden Ortsnamen als Quellen für Raumwissen – besonders im Zusammenhang mit Konzepten wie Ausland und Urbanität – herangezogen. Dies stützt sich auf die Variation von Klassifikatoren (traditionell Determinative) in der Schreibung von Namen von Orten im ägyptischen Grenzgebiet. Derselbe Ortsname kann sowohl mit einem mit den Konzepten städtisch und ägyptisch assoziierten Klassifikator (Gardiner- Zeichenliste 049) als auch mit zwei Klassifikatoren, die mit dem Konzept Ausland verbunden werden (Gardiner-Zeichenliste N25 und T14), belegt sein. Diese Variation wird in Bezug zu historisch-politischen oder konzeptionellen Veränderungen des Grenzgebiets von Ägypten und u. a. der Levante gesetzt. Theorien sprachlicher Kategorisierung wurden bislang nicht einbezogen. Klassifikatoren sind aber vor allem sprachliche Elemente (Morpheme). Deswegen wird mein Beitrag exemplarisch anhand von hieroglyphischen und hieratischen Schreibungen des Namens der Stadt Sile (Tjaru) im nordöstlichen Nildelta diskutieren, wie mithilfe solcher Ansätze, insbesondere der Prototypentheorie,scheinbare Widersprüche in der Quellenlage aufgelöst werden können

Realizing the Business Potential of Interoperable Electronic Catalogs - The Case of Hofer-Curti Group

In the future, a core criterion for the success of elec- tronic marketplaces and distribution channels will be se- mantic interoperability among different vendors’ EC sys- tems. In this context, interoperability of product catalogs is of particular importance as it holds an enormous business potential for the transformation of sourcing processes of distributors and large organizations and can enable a wide variety of new business models in areas such as purchasing and sales operations. The case of Hofer-Curti Group, a large Swiss trade group, provides an exemplary scenario for the streamlining and optimization of supply chain ac- tivities enabled by interoperable catalog technology

Unrequited Love : Verschmahte Liebe

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Business Models for the Implementation of Mediating Electronic Product Catalogs

Despite the rapidly growing number of companies that present their products on the Internet a global search for products and comparative analysis of their respective features and attributes is impeded by semantic differences between the catalogs offered. Over the last years a few approaches to electronic product catalogs have emerged that specifically try to deal with the problems of semantic heterogeneity of product specifications. For the practical application of these technologies three basic types of business models can be identified enabling a wide variety of business scenarios ranging from the support of purchasing and sales operations to the streamlining and optimization of sourcing processes of resellers and large organizations