The passenger airline industry is a prominent service industry that is becoming increasingly commoditized. As little empirical work in this field exists, this study contributes to research by exploring how passenger airlines leverage innovation in such market conditions from a strategic and organizational view. Comprehensive case studies of a sample of eight passenger airlines constitute the empirical basis. The analysis detects patterns of innovations and draws conclusions on the strategic innovation behavior in the airline industry. The study proposes an organizational concept and a strategic approach for airlines to innovate in an increasingly commoditized market.

Innovation in Commoditized Service Industries: An Empirical Case Study Analysis in the Passenger Airline Industry (Aviation Management)

Rothkopf, Maximilian

Business & Money

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Medienbiografie und Familie - Jugendliche erzählen

Unknown, Author

This volume provides a significant contribution to the understanding of the effects of foreign direct investment on trade. Through an investigation of the pattern and determinants of trade in Portuguese manufacturing, it demonstrates FDI's long term transforming effect and how it has the potential to transfer and embed knowledge within the EU through upgrading host economies. The volume will be of interest to academics, postgraduate students, researchers and policy makers.

Economic Integration, International Trade and the Role of Foreign Direct Investment: The Case of Portuguese Manufacturing (3) (New Developments in Economic Research)

Bento, Joao Paulo Cerdeira

From Black to Schwarz explores the long and varied history of the exchanges between African America and Germany with a particular focus on cultural interplay. Covering a wide range of media of expression - music, performance, film, scholarship, literature, visual arts, reviews - the essays collected in this volume trace and analyze a cultural interaction, collaboration and mutual transformation that began in the eighteenth century, literally boomed during the Harlem Renaissance/Weimar Republic, could not even be liquidated by the Third Reich's `Degenerate Art' campaigns, and, with new media available to further exchanges, is still increasingly empowering and inspiring participants on both sides of the Atlantic.

From Black to Schwarz: Cultural Crossovers Between African America and Germany (Forecaast)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Einführung in Populäre Musik und Medien

Arts & Photography

Jacke, Christoph

Music

NUMBER&nbsp;57&nbsp;/&nbsp;2008 "Strategies of Struggles" among the Santal Adviasi Fauzia Shariff 1 Punx and skins united Aimar Ventsel 45 The Everyday Functioning of Benin's Legal System Thomas Bierschenk 101 Decentralization and Co-Management of Protected Areas in Indonesia Yonariza and Ganesh P. Shivakoti 141 Book Reviews 167

The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 2008 (The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law, 57)

"In this work the late Irene Hilgers analyses the revival of Islam in the public sphere in postsocialist Uzbekistan, with particular reference to its role in the construction of a new national identity. Data collected during fieldwork in 2003-2004 are contextualized with reference to the history of the Kokand Khanate and the suppression of religion during the Soviet era. Hilgers analyses current state ideology and the official structures for controlling religion, but also the continued significance of 'popular religion', as expressed at shrines and in healing rituals, and the tensions associated with 'Wahabi' currents. The tight association between Uzbek identity and Islam is also illustrated through the problems encountered by converts to Christianity. Throughout the work Hilgers deploys her rich ethnographic materials to shed fresh light on major debates concerning secularization and the nature of Soviet and post-Soviet 'modernity'.

Why Do Uzbeks have to be Muslims?: Exploring religiosity in the Ferghana Valley (22) (Halle Studies in the Anthropology of Eurasia)

Hilgers, Irene

Religion & Spirituality

The volume documents the results of the Annual Meeting of the International Institute of Philosophy at the occasion of the World Congress of Philosophy 2008 in Seoul. Logically, systematic and methodological differences and comparisons between cultural traditions are analyzed from a multicultural perspective. General challenges of multiculturalism for "world philosophy" are analyzed from ethical and ontological approaches, e.g. of ancient Chinese and Greek philosophy. Historical studies regarding influences and "migrations" of philosophical texts across different cultures as well as religious and human rights debates about tolerance are topical themes. In addition, the question is raised whether logical principles are cross-culturally valid.

Comparative and Intercultural Philosophy: Proceedings of the IIP Conference Seoul 2008 (5) (Philosophy in International Context / Philosophie Im Internationalen Kontext. Studies / Abhandlungen)

Handbuch Akzeleration: Was Hochbegabten nützt

Heinbokel, Annette

The role of Arab women is often perceived one-sided in Western countries. In fact this perception must be revised when looking at the achievements of women in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The booming economy - one of the fastest growing economies in the world - demands for a well educated society. A 2005 Forbes list of "Women to Watch in the Middle East" included two Emirati women. Telling the success stories of Emirati women in leadership positions will give exposure to the West and serve to counterpoint existing prejudices about the opportunities for women in the UAE.

Leadership and the Emirati Woman: Breaking the Glass Ceiling in the Arabian Gulf (4) (International Economics)

Augsburg, Kristin

Claus, Isabell A.

Randeree, Kasim

International

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