International homogenisation in architectural expression leads to an increasing assimilation of built architecture around the world. Counter movements like the Critical Regionalism require spatial differentiation and articulation of individual building cultures. Concepts like "Heimat", affiliation and identity are picked up as central topic for world- and national exhibitions like the IBA, the EXPO, or the architectural biennale. Through those events architecture is exploited to mediate a theme, an image, or a mind-set, or to create affiliation - as well as to get in touch with their own identities. Architecture is limited in this case not only to the physical, but also includes the social and mental spatial production. This should be examined more closely by this work.

Through a process-guidance during the concept competition of the Swiss Expo2027 for Eastern Switzerland and the examination of the involved planners of the Expo.02 and the Expo2027 this dissertation firstly investigates how physical, social, and mental spatial production contributes to the construction of identities in the context of a national exhibition.

The dissertation is created within the framework of the doctoral programme at the University of Liechtenstein at the Competence Centre Architecture and Visual Culture with Professor Peter A. Staub.

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After the consulting industry has recovered from their crisis and consolidation years 2009/10, this industry again counts to one of the most attractive and popular employers for graduates and people with academic and industry background.

Even more astonishingly is that almost no scientific papers are available which consider the personality of management consultants, their motivation, their goals and their character and comparing these findings with the employee selection processes of consulting firms. It is one of the main goals of the planned dissertation to fill this scientific gap. It is additionally scheduled to compare the planned carrier paths of young consulting beginners with CV's of longtime and former business consultants. Since the dissertation intended to make a practical added value also outside the consulting environment, it is planned to examine experiences of companies which are employing former business consultants. The main topic will be to identify the reasons why companies specifically looking for former business consultants and what kind of experience they have made with these kind of employees.
With the help of the planned dissertation, it should therefore be possible to draw a comprehensive picture of the person behind the job as business consultant and the influence of this profession on them. Furthermore, it will be pointed out, how and with what kind of methods consulting company's evaluate and recruit new employees as well as the reasons for a rising career or an exit from the consulting industry.
Another important aspect of the project will be to analyze and compare career paths of former consultants, there perception in the market and the experience of new employers.

Derived from the results of the detailed literature review and the empirical studies it is planned to create and publish up to five articles.

After the consulting industry has recovered from their crisis and consolidation years 2009/10, this industry again counts to one of the most attractive and popular employers for graduates and people with academic and industry background.

Even more astonishingly is that almost no scientific papers are available which consider the personality of management consultants, their motivation, their goals and their character and comparing these findings with the employee selection processes of consulting firms. It is one of the main goals of the planned dissertation to fill this scientific gap. It is additionally scheduled to compare the planned carrier paths of young consulting beginners with CV's of longtime and former business consultants. Since the dissertation intended to make a practical added value also outside the consulting environment, it is planned to examine experiences of companies which are employing former business consultants. The main topic will be to identify the reasons why companies specifically looking for former business consultants and what kind of experience they have made with these kind of employees.
With the help of the planned dissertation, it should therefore be possible to draw a comprehensive picture of the person behind the job as business consultant and the influence of this profession on them. Furthermore, it will be pointed out, how and with what kind of methods consulting company's evaluate and recruit new employees as well as the reasons for a rising career or an exit from the consulting industry.
Another important aspect of the project will be to analyze and compare career paths of former consultants, there perception in the market and the experience of new employers.

Derived from the results of the detailed literature review and the empirical studies it is planned to create and publish up to five articles.

What is charisma, and how can you measure it? How do managers lead when they are tied up in front of a webcam? The current pandemic has raised a host of questions for organizational and leadership researchers. Recent work on the signaling approach to charisma, however, offers hope. This cutting-edge and innovative project will therefore examine charismatic leadership within the paradigm of signaling theory, using three forms of audiovisual computer-mediated communication: traditional, screen-based videos, familiar from programs such as Teams or Skype; more progressive, virtual reality-based videos, conceivably as highly realistic and immersive 3D videos; and simulated videos presented in VR, which reaches into current business informatics research on the use of avatars.

To this end, a large sample of participants will be tested in depth over a period of months, and resulting quantitative, robust results will be examined through established inferential statistical techniques .The ability of all three media types to convey signals of executive charisma will be analyzed. The focus is on the ability of virtual reality to do so with greater acuity and clarity than traditional media. Whether leaders thus appear more charismatic to remote followers is the core question of the project; in addition, a variety of fruitful, previously untapped research directions are proposed, as is the use of new techniques in leadership and charismatic-signaling research.

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Thema: Motivationförderliche Ausgestaltung betrieblicher Anreizsysteme

Aktueller Stand: durchgeführte Vignetten-Studie und Meta-Analyse

Stables create identity and shape the cultural landscapes. Due to technical achievements and social changes, many of the peripheral stables are no longer in use. The number of farms decrease and the remaining farms are relocated in central economic buildings that comply with todays' norms. The conversion of old stables into holiday homes rises a paradox and is diametrically opposed to the separation of building and non-building areas. The question arises: How can old stables and barns be maintained as built heritage? This paper aims to illustrate the current situation of old stables in the Canton of Grisons and contributes to the debate on re-using obsolete farm buildings. For this purpose, the topic is investigated through a social science approach and is embedded in a theoretical context. The insights show that old stables can be understood as vacancies in the cultural landscape. They are located in an in between space. In order to preserve the old stables as cultural heritage, no exceptional permits may be granted for conversion into private holiday homes. Within the current discussion there is a lack of precise concepts for the building typologies of obsolete farm buildings.

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