Hochschulbibliographie

The COVID-19 crisis across the world has posed a daunting challenge to journalism as a discipline. Indeed, how the journalism profession performs at this time could have game-changing implications on its already beleaguered role as a source of information in society. This article deals with the subject of journalistic competencies necessary in such crisis times, when interpreting and disseminating technical or scientific information becomes crucial in news work in a region that is vastly different from the West or the 'Global North' - Southeast Asia. The issues and relevant concepts of journalistic competence and science journalism, especially in the time of digital and economic disruptions are discussed in relation to: 1) literature on journalistic roles and the character of media systems in Southeast Asia, and 2) data from in-depth interviews with selected experts from 31 countries. This article argues that, based on literature and a growing consensus among experts, journalism can best strengthen its role in society by shifting its standards and norms under a transformative and interdisciplinary perspective, which for a long time has been hindered by the inertia of the industry and industry-centered journalism education.

We study the productivity level distributions of manufacturing firms in France and Germany, and how these distributions evolved across the Great Recession. We show the presence of a systematic productivity advantage of German firms over French ones in the decade 2003-2013, but the gap has narrowed down after the Great Recession. Convergence is explained by the better growth performance of French firms in the post-recession period, especially of those located in the top percentiles of the productivity distribution. We also highlight the role of sectoral growth, firm size and export intensity in explaining the above convergence. In contrast, the contribution of allocative efficiency was small.

Mit dem vorliegenden, nun aktualisierten und überarbeiteten Werk, welches im Jahr 2018 vom Rat der Fakultät für Wirtschaftswissenschaften und Medien der Technischen Universität als Habilitationsschrift angenommen wurde, verknüpft Liane Rothenberger ihre vielfältigen Einzelarbeiten und erweitert diese substanziell um eine Meta-Analyse theoretischer Ansätze, die in der Kommunikationswissenschaft wurzeln oder zumindest Terrorismus primär hinsichtlich kommunikativer Aspekte betrachten. Neben einer (sozial-)wissenschaftlich interessierten Leserschaft bietet das Buch damit auch Vertreterinnen und Vertretern der sicherheitspolitischen Praxis Anregungen für ein tieferes Verständnis terroristischer Gruppen und ihrer Handlungen.

Scarcity is an instrument that is often used in crowdfunding. Crowdfunding isan alternative form of financing,especially for entrepreneurs in the early-stage development phase.This paper deals with the characteristics of profitable crowdfunding projects. Hereby, we examinethe impact factors of crowdfundings profitability, with a special focus on limited availability (scarcity), depth of project description and the size of pledginggoalsas follows.Therefore, we analyzedata from kickstarter.com, one of the worlds largest crowdfunding platforms,and used494 projects and 4,224 pledge levels from the broad category technology as our database.Technology projects lend themselves particularly well to the study, as they usually contain the project result as a tangible return, thus facilitating or even enabling the monetary evaluation of the success in contrast to, for example, cultural projects. Hence, our sample includes 32% of pledge levels with limited availability. We provide empirical evidence that the limited availability in the crowdfunding projects in terms of scarcity management is positivelyrelated to the profitability of the included pledge levels. We conclude that crowdfunding projects with limited availability on pledge levels are more profitable for investors.