Urban densification as a heterogenous planning principle covering diverse concepts such as "the re-use of brownfield land, more intensive use of urban buildings, sub-divisions and conversions of existing development" (Burton, 2000, p. 1969) emerged in the last three decades as an answer to spatial challenges such as soil consumption, traffic jams, ecological downgrading and social segregation. Therefore, urban densification is conceived as an important part of sustainable planning. Expanding such a narrow conception and using a critical perspective on sustainable development, urban densification can be seen as part of a "sustainability fix" (While et al., 2004) that selectively incorporates ecological sustainability in growth-oriented development paths of spatial development. This study specifically wants to address actor coalitions that govern urban densification projects in the Austrian Alpine Rhine Valley by taking up the "densification regimes" concept. The focus of my cumulative dissertation hence lies on how urban densification as a process driven by actor interests restructures the Alpine Rhine Valley and how the "sustainability fix" is used as a discursive device by different actors within urban densification projects.

Projektaufgabe für die Studierenden
Abfalltrennung und Demontage auf der Baustelle, Bauteilhandel und Wiedereinbau von Recyclingmaterialien zählen zum Programm einer sich formierenden Wende im nachhaltigen Umgang mit Ressourcen dieser Welt. Ein Blick auf das traditionelle ländliche Bauen zeigt, dass diese Vorgehensweise nichts Neues ist - sie ging nur vergessen.

Das Studio nahm sich mit dem Walserhaus den regionalen Holzbau zum Vorbild und entwickelt Strategien für eine neue Form der Wieder- und Weiterverwendbarkeit von Bauten und Bauteilen. Dabei wurde ausgelotet, inwiefern sich neue Felder für die Architektur eröffnen und gewinnen lassen. Die zentrale Fragestellung lautete: Wie sind Entwürfe zu konzipieren, wenn Unbestimmtheit zu einem wesentlichen Bestandteil der Architektur wird; wie sieht Architektur aus, die nicht für den einschichtigen Gebrauch und einmaligen Verbrauch entworfen wird? Die Untersuchung neuer Wohn- und Lebensformen für ein mögliches Bauprogramm war Bestandteil dieser realen Bauaufgabe am Steilhang von Triesenberg.
Zusammenfassung des Semesters
Das Projektstudio startete im Februar mit einem Besuch des Bauplatzes sowie dem Walsermuseum und einem über 400 Jahre alten Walserhauses in Triesenberg. In den ersten vier Wochen analysierten die Studierenden den Kontext (Präsentation und grafische Analyse), Walsersiedlungen (Text) aber auch Lebens- und Wohnformen (Präsentation und grafische Darstellung).

Durch den Beginn der Covid-19 Pandemie im März musste die Seminarwoche sehr kurzfristig auf den digitalen Fernunterricht umgestellt werden. Die Aufgabe "Bauen am Hang" wurde für diesen Workshop angepasst. Die Studierenden analysierten beispielhafte Architekturprojekte, die ebenfalls an steilen Hängen umgesetzt wurden, in Form einer zeichnerischen Objektanalyse (Axonometrien).

Im Anschluss an die Analysephase und die Seminarwoche startete die Arbeit am Entwurfsprojekt und musste, bedingt durch Covid-19, bis zum Semesterende in Form von wöchentlichen online Besprechungen sowie Inputvorträgen und Workshops digital durchgeführt werden. Dabei entstanden 15 Projekte, die sowohl architektonisch als auch konstruktiv eine grosse Variation von Lösungen aufzeigten, aber auch neue Lebens- und Wohnformen wurden von den Studierenden erarbeitet und integriert.

Nachfolgend an das Semester wurde noch das Umgebungsmodell sowie die beiden Einsatzmodelle der ausgewählten Studierendenarbeiten erstellt.

There is an emerging scholarly interest in international entrepreneurship research and defining IE is still in a state of evolution. While traditional international business models focus mainly on larger and established, international organizations, research on SMEs internationalization has emerged prolific. However, the role of the entrepreneur has been conspicuously under exploration in international business journals. Journals concerned with small organizations, entrepreneurship and business venturing, have concentrated on the entrepreneur itself and its relatively small organization, but until recently, paid little attention to international aspects of entrepreneurial business. Within the last years, a growing volume of research on IE was published. These articles provide an abundance of conceptual and explanatory frameworks, affected by all kinds of business research, which led to a hodgepodge of frameworks, research designs, and approaches on IE. Until recently, it is broad conformity that IE has its origins in the conventional IB and ENT research. Nonetheless, there is no proven definition or a general understanding of IE from a holistic perspective. As yet, the full extent of its scope is undefined. Within the growing volume of extant studies and research on IE, many calls for future IE research have been made. The dissertation is planned as cumulative work and the methodological approach comprises a mixed methods study design.

Nowadays, organizations are facing ever-changing conditions and increasing market competition. To survive, organizations must achieve the highest possible fit between them and their environment. Business process management (BPM) has become an essential management discipline dedicated to the systematic management of processes along their entire lifecycle using modern information technologies (IT). Motivated by real-world BPM initiatives, the student applies a mixed-methodology approach: In addition to systematic literature reviews, the student applies expert interviews and case studies to study phenomena and dynamics in single or multiple organizational settings. The proposed research project is conducted in the form of a cumulative dissertation with a strong orientation toward BPM in practice. This dissertation project's primary goal is to contribute to the existing body of knowledge, specifically within the BPM research community. The study involves examining how organizations integrate BPM in their organizational structure, strategy, and processes and aligning them with the six core elements of BPM (strategy, method, people, governance, culture, and information technology). In addition, the doctoral student contributes to the recently emerged research field of process science, which deals with the study of continuous change. Based on these individual studies, the doctoral researcher intends to develop guidelines which serve as a blueprint for practitioners who re-design their BPM approach in a holistic manner for delivering the company's strategy and added value for customers.

The emergence of big data has stimulated large investments into advanced analytics solutions while companies are still striving to determine whether those investments generate measurable business value. Although multiple case studies and vendor reports have highlighted the importance and strategic value of advanced analytics, large-scale and reliable empirical evidence about the payoff of advanced analytics investments remains scarce.

This dissertation focuses on disentangling relationship between advanced analytics and business value. It aims to provide robust empirical evidence for the effects of advanced analytics adoption on firm productivity and performance, and to determine boundary conditions that could constrain or increase firm's ability to benefit from advanced analytics adoption.

By achieving those goals this research will contribute to the body of knowledge in the areas of IT value and investment, on the one hand, and the business side of advanced analytics, on the other hand. Futhermore, estimations and timeframes for expected payoffs from advanced analytics in various industries with consideration of company characteristics and other context parameters would support organizations in deriving business value from advanced analytics investments.

The dissertation aims to investigate the relationship between advanced analytics and its business value for organizations. Although economics and value of IS have been extensively debated and investigated, there is yet little large-sample evidence on costs and benefits of advanced analytics, as most papers focus on conducting surveys and case studies. Moreover, due to exponential growth of data volume, variety and velocity, the most modern advanced analytics solutions have been introduced just several years ago and their business value has not yet been widely examined.

The research plan comprises three studies: (1) quantitative study, investigating the relationship between advanced analytics project context and firm performance; (2) qualitative study, aimed to determine how organizations derive value from advanced analytics projects; and (3) IT artifact development, investigating how organizations can be supported in determining potential business value from advanced analytics.

The first project is primarily focused on multiyear multi-firm advanced analytics implementation and financial data. This study aims to investigate how performance changes across a variety of financial metrics for adopters of advanced analytics solutions, depending on different use cases and other project details.

The global importance of trusts as vehicles for wealth management is on the increase. However, it can be noted that the use of trusts in Liechtenstein is on the decline. There are a number of factors responsible for this development: the inherent difficulties in using a common law instrument in a civil law environment as well as the lack of statutory reform, case law and literature on Liechtenstein trusts.

This project aims to overcome these hurdles by achieving three objectives, namely identifying the problems faced in Liechtenstein trust law, identifying and evaluating the solutions offered in other civil law jurisdictions using comparative law methods and assessing the feasibility of incorporating such solutions or new solutions developed on the basis of the research into Liechtenstein law.

This project is the first of its kind with reference to Liechtenstein. While comparative law analyses encompassing Liechtenstein trust law exist, they have to date been confined to a comparison with the trust laws of common law jurisdictions or the German fiduciary Treuhand. Most of the international comparative law publications which focus on the trust in civil law jurisdictions do not refer to Liechtenstein specifically.

In order to achieve the goals set, the project will be divided into three phases, each requiring different research methods. Emphasis will be placed on obtaining information through analysis of the sources of law and legal literature. However, empirical research will also be necessary to fill in any possible gaps.

The anticipated outcome of the project is a solid foundation for the further development of statutory law and case law. The project results will be disseminated through the publication of articles and presentations at conferences. This will make the results accessible to other academics and to practitioners, thereby both increasing academic discussion on the subjects and benefiting the consulting industry.

Taxation is one of the most important tools governments use to influence the economy. To tackle the debt bias and foster innovation and growth, several countries (among them Liechtenstein) have introduced an Allowance for Corporate Equity (ACE) in their corporate tax system. Also the 2016 proposal of the European Commission for a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) entails a variant of an ACE.
In this research project, we ask how taxes on corporate income affect corporate risk taking. Especially we focus on the underlying transmission channels, through which the companies respond to changes in the tax system. Understanding managerial risk taking is important, as managers need to take risks to improve competitive advantage and performance.

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Digitalization and innovation promise to ease our daily lives. Both of these trends are heavily driven by technologies, models, and algorithms from the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Despite
the success of AI, AI still suffers from serious shortcomings. Among them are its black box and statistical nature. That is, AI is difficult to understand for humans, and each prediction could
be wrong – even it appears to be simple to do correctly. These undesirable properties fostered the field of explainable AI, and they call for approaches to validate AI models and decisions. This
project seeks to contribute to these areas by investigating three specific problems. Two of them are closely related to existing projects with regional companies.

Aus sich der Wirtschaftsinformatik können Organisationen als Informationssysteme - Mensch-Aufgabe-Technik-Systeme - verstanden werden. Diesem Verständnis folgend sind technische und betriebswirtschaftliche Gestaltungsteilbereiche miteinander abzustimmen. Diese Form der Abstimmung wird auch als "IT-Business-Alignment" bezeichnet. Konstituierend ist hier die Frage des wertsteigernden Einsatzes der Informationstechnologie (IT) durch eine differenzierte Abstimmung mit betriebswirtschaftlichen Anforderungen. Entscheidend ist nicht, ob IT einen Einfluss auf den Unternehmenswert hat, sondern vielmehr wie durch IT gerade ein positiver Wertbeitrag erzielt werden kann.

Grundsätzlich hat die (Um-)Gestaltung von Informationssystemen nach Maßgabe wirtschaftlicher Überlegungen zu erfolgen. Bisherige Ansätze zur Informationssystemgestaltung fokussieren die sachliche Abstimmung von Informationssystemen und adressieren somit die Frage nach der Effektivität einer Gestaltungsalternative. Zusätzlich sind jedoch auch Methoden bereitzustellen, um den Wertbeitrag alternativer Informationssystemgestaltungen zu beurteilen. Der Vorteil einer wertorientierten Gestaltung von Informationssystemen besteht insbesondere darin, dass sich die Entscheidungsunterstützung bereits auf die Phase der Konstruktion von Informationssystemen oder deren Gestaltungsteilbereiche bezieht (und nicht etwa erst auf deren Steuerung). Dies ist von besonderer Bedeutung, da in der Phase der Konstruktion über den eigentlichen Rahmen der Gestaltung disponiert wird, sodass hier der wesentliche Einfluss auf den (späteren) Wertbeitrag ausgeübt wird.