Nina Golowko

Wilhelm Büchner Hochschule · Fachbereich Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen und Technologiemanagement

This chapter focuses on research on applications, prerequisites and measures for implementing sustainability at higher education institutions. The existing implementations are so diverse that there is no clear definition of a holistically sustainable university, neither in the literature nor in practice. Based on a meta-study of 40 best-practice un...

Sustainability has become a global megatrend in recent years. While the concept of sustainability at the beginning of the 20th century initially focused exclusively on ecological aspects, there has been a paradigm shift towards a holistic, long-term oriented and responsible use of resources. Starting from the origins of sustainability and the UN Su...

This chapter points out trends and developments in higher education in the context of the knowledge society with a focus on business studies. Increasing digitalisation and the development towards a knowledge society have been perceived as megatrends for many years. The continuous and rapid change results in a special need for lifelong learning for...

In the previous chapter's analysis, human intelligence had to determine which individual key terms are to be searched for in an existing corpus. This implies that the entire corpus (e.g. the titles of theses) can never be examined with regard to all inherently existing terms at once, but always only for those aspects that are already in the focus o...

This chapter presents current approaches to the teaching of employability skills in higher education. First, different perspectives on the concept of employability are explored. The findings on the complexity of the term employability are summarised in three interacting dimensions, which will be referred to in the following investigations of this t...

This chapter uses three studies to show how market- and future-oriented business knowledge and skills can be identified and assessed. First, the question of which skills are needed by the market was answered. Using the Romanian business process outsourcing industry as an example, a conceptual approach to deriving skills needs was developed. In this...

Vor dem Hintergrund einer zunehmenden und immer schneller verlaufenden Digitalisierung sind Arbeitnehmende, aber auch Fach- und Führungskräfte zu einer permanenten beruflichen Weiterbildung und Weiterentwicklung gezwungen. Die Digitalisierung prägt jedoch nicht nur die Notwendigkeit zur Weiterbildung, sondern ermöglicht auch neue bzw. miteinander k...

This book identifies central key factors for future-oriented teaching in Higher Education to support the task of ensuring the knowledge transfer for sustainable and competence-oriented employability to the future workforce. Through an innovative approach using machine-learning algorithms that employ the universities’ own and extern databases as kno...

Themen des Managements und damit verbunden der wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Hochschulbildung unterliegen Trends und Entwicklungen. Bislang wurden solche Veränderungen nur mit zeitlicher Verzögerung erkannt. Mit Methoden der künstlichen Intelligenz können diese Trends und Entwicklungen zeitnah aufgespürt werden. Dabei bilden Abschlussarbeiten an Ho...

The Romanian economy has prospered in the last years, and as a result, economic players claim today the scarcity of skilled workforce in the country. Many reasons have been mentioned for this: a dysfunctional labour market, saturated economic regions, demographic decline, migration, not adequately skilled workers. Therefore, it is crucial activatin...

Universities can as little ignore the ever-faster pace of change in their environment as companies can. To anticipate the increase in the quantity of knowledge and the increasing competition in the higher education sector, universities can access their own knowledge base. This paper aims to show that universities can use machine learning to uncover...

In the present society, the concept of bioeconomy emerged due to the need for a sustainable and responsible change regarding the impact mitigation of several factors on the environment. The rising consumption and the resulting emission of pollutants are interconnected with both economic and population growth. Therefore, measures must be taken using...

Predictions, surveys and analyzes on the megatrends of the 21st century and their drivers are ubiquitous. Globalization, digitization, new work, demographic change, climate change and scarcity of resources as well as sustainability are controversially discussed topics of renowned research and consulting companies, organizations, governments, econom...

The Romanian Business Service Sector developed fast in the last decade. Today it employs more than 120 000 Head Counts and continuously grows. However, companies claim not to get the right skills from employees to pursue the digital transformation from a mere service sector towards a more value-added service. Since it has a very young working popul...

A variety of underlying conceptions considering and modelling sustainability provides a number of different views on the causes and effects of sustainability. They also offer answers for the most urgent questions on whether to apply which tools of sustainability. On national and supranational level governments are challenged by social and political...

Climate change and other crises are increasingly dominating today’s life. Consequently, the CO2-concentration in the atmosphere is rising along with extreme weather phenomena. The current refugee issue in Europe is mainly caused by war and terror, however with increasing water shortages and draughts, many more people will prospectively be on the ru...

Digital Technologies such as advanced algorithms, robotics, and analytics amongst others are transforming the dynamics of the workforce within enterprises. Therefore, the authors of this work have reviewed the implications of rising technologies on Organizational Behavior. Many of the current studies on this theme have focused on the technological...

The history shows, that the world is subject to constant technical changes, starting with the 1st industrial revolution to the point of the actual ongoing 4th industrial revolution. It also is unarguable that the world changes faster and innovation cycles decrease with the time as the technical development advances. The digitalization is one of the...

Innovations affect our actions by improving or facilitating processes for both the business world and the daily life. While the biggest recent technical innovations include smartphones, 3D-printing and cloud computing, also non-existent innovations – innovations that are announced but not yet released - are under discussion and in the process of de...

The Romanian outsourcing sector as part of the service sector has evolved enormously in the last decade in Romania. Foreign Direct Investments in this sector continue to grow, thus the sector employs more than 100.000 people in 2016 in Romania. However, companies claim not to get the right skills from employees which will allow them to move the lat...

Private universities have evolved at a fast pace in Germany during the last two decades, but the continuing deregulation of the German higher education system threatens them to lose their previous unique selling propositions. An integrated quality management system is a key differentiation for private universities, but because the well-known qualit...

Innovation is one of the most important characteristic for every organization in today's economic context. The study presented in this paper evaluates the implications on the innovation management generated by fierce competition caused by economic globalization. In today's highly dynamic and competitive business environment, firms are exposed to st...