Als der Flughafen von Basel vom Sternenfeld, Birsfelden verlegt wurde entstand auf dem ehemaligen Areal in den 60er Jahren die ersten Hochhäuser in Basel und dutzende gleiche Wohnblöcke. Die
Baugenossenschaften von Bundesbahn, Post und Zoll bauten auf dem ehemaligen Flughafen für Ihre Beamten. Zu Tausenden kamen sie aus der ganzen Schweiz und nahmen Ihr Dorf gleich mit.
Quartiervereine hatten Ländlerchilbi, es gab einen Skiclub und man spielte Schwyzerörgeli. Das Sternenfeld ist schlecht mit dem ÖV erschlossen und liegt etwas abgelegen zwischen Hafen und weg vom
Dorfzentrum. Dies war OK, früher gab es Leben zwischen den Wohnblöcken ein Zentrum mit Charles Vögele, Begg und einen Kiosk. Alle haben dichtgemacht. Neu gibt es dort einen Hundesalon. Zwischen den Wohnblöcken herrscht Leere. Die Quartiervereine sterben aus. Die Räume dazwischen sind nicht definiert oder zugeordnet. Die Rheinparksiedlung ist eine dieser Hochhaussiedlungen. Drei 16 stöckige Scheiben stehen direkt am
Rheinufer, dazwischen steht eine verlassene Schaukel und ein Grill des Hauswarts. Die Anforderungen vor 40 Jahren waren verschieden. Man wohnte mit einer 4 köpfigen Familie in einer 3 Zimmer Wohnung.
Heute werden diese Wohnungen im Sternenfeld von alten Paaren bewohnt, deren Kinder ausgezogen sind, von nicht Deutsch sprechenden Immigranten Familien bezogen oder sie werden von einzelnen Personen belegt. Birsfelden hatte 1975 14'000 Einwohner. Heute sind es noch 11'000. Es geht darum Strategien zu finden, wie das Ensemble wiederbelebt werden kann in den Häusern und um die Häuser.

Standard carry trades sell low-yield currencies and buy high-yield currencies. The trading idea is to capture the interest rate differential between currencies. The unique selection criterion of carry trades is the corresponding yield of various currencies.
This cumulative dissertation discusses a new approach of carry trades. The approach of this dissertation expands the selection criterion by foreign exchange (FX) variation. This extension is necessary, as the FX variation is the main source of risk and the FX dynamic can ruin the profitability. Additionally, the dissertation project discusses the diversification effect of carry trades for an institutional investor and the predictability of currency returns.
The aim of this dissertation is to introduce a new carry trade strategy, which is more robust against FX risk, and to show the benefits of this carry trade strategy for an institutional investor.

Standard carry trades sell low-yield currencies and buy high-yield currencies. The trading idea is to capture the interest rate differential between currencies. The unique selection criterion of carry trades is the corresponding yield of various currencies.
This cumulative dissertation discusses a new approach of carry trades. The approach of this dissertation expands the selection criterion by foreign exchange (FX) variation. This extension is necessary, as the FX variation is the main source of risk and the FX dynamic can ruin the profitability. Additionally, the dissertation project discusses the diversification effect of carry trades for an institutional investor and the predictability of currency returns.
The aim of this dissertation is to introduce a new carry trade strategy, which is more robust against FX risk, and to show the benefits of this carry trade strategy for an institutional investor.

Das Projekt "EnergieWerkStadt" zielt darauf ab, funktionsfähige Informations- und Beratungszentren auf kommunaler und regionaler Ebene zu etablieren, die als Schnittstelle zwischen der Planung und der konkreten Umsetzung von Projekten im Bereich der erneuerbaren Energien und des Klimaschutzes fungieren. Innerhalb der "EnergiewerkStadt" erfolgt die Bündelung, Koordination und Vermittlung zu allen Fragestellungen rund um den energetischen Stadtumbau.

Ziel ist, mit den Akteuren vor Ort in einen Dialog zu treten, diese zu vernetzen und im Rahmen eines Workshops zu diskutieren, ob und wie eine autarke und emissionsneutrale Energieversorgung etabliert werden kann und welche Zielsetzungen bis 2020 bzw 2050 mit welchen Massnahmen erreicht werden können.

Basierend auf der Vernetzung der Akteure erfolgt die Erarbeitung von gemeinsamen Zielstellungen und Massnahmen/Projekten sowie die Erstellung eines Aktionsplans zur Umsetzung der Projektideen.

The current project aims to deepen the theoretical and empirical understanding of the concept "Employer Branding". Based on critical voices which continuously question the dominant functional and behavioural perspective of employer branding research, we adapt an interpretative, relational perspective. We will enhance this model through empirical studies.
We look at the entire process of employer branding and analyse the development and implementation of employer brands within companies, the evaluation criteria to assess attractiveness of particularly relevant target groups on the external job market, as well as the perception and impact of employer brands on these employees. In particular, we focus on the particularities of small and medium sized businesses.
The results of this empirical research will expand considerably our knowledge regarding the theoretical as well as empirical development of employer branding knowledge. This knowledge can serve as the basis for the strategic direction of employer branding as a communicative forum between employer and employee. Beyond this, our results will have implications for personnel management of companies in general, as the content design of successful employer brands need to be consistent with the actual practices of HR work and processes within companies.

Tax payments by multinational enterprises are increasingly discussed within the corporate social responsibility (CSR) debate. At the beginning, mainly media, non-governmental organizations, and politicians have addressed this issue. Recently, academics have also started to shed light on the link between tax payments and CSR. The increasing relevance of taxes within the CSR debate is a result of two developments: a high number of publicly disclosed multinational enterprises that are accused of avoiding taxes and the rising national debt in the OECD countries which limits public services, such as social services, healthcare, education, and infrastructure. As a consequence, multinational enterprises are urged to pay their fair share of taxes. In doing so, media and non-governmental organizations follow a strategy of naming and shaming, i.e., they publish the names of actual or supposed tax-aggressive companies. This public pressure might influence the level of tax disclosure within sustainability reports.

Against this background, the present research project aims at analyzing the development of tax disclosure within CSR reporting.

The aim of this research project is to support the current discussion about the revenue and distributional effects of the Liechtenstein tax law by quantitative results. This is accomplished by the quantitative analysis of representative fictitious companies, as well as with the application of micro-simulation models. While the analysis of representative companies focus on the tax treatment and burden of international companies which are headquartered in Liechtenstein, the micro-simulation models focus on the distributional and revenue effects of the business and income taxation.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, advancing globalization and digitalization caused communication in organizations to shift from face-to-face interactions onto digital mediums, especially e-mail and chat messengers. The pandemic rapidly accelerated this process, producing a sudden need for leaders to fulfil a new role as digital leaders who have to exert influence at a distance. In times of such crisis, a charismatic leadership style is particularly effective at ensuring organizations will emerge unscathed, as charismatic leaders are outstandingly skilled at encouraging team cooperation and motivating their followers. A main pathway for this effectiveness is a leader's ability to transfer their emotions onto their followers. However, the prevalent digital mediums for leader-follower interaction restrict the signalling of nonverbal emotional expressions. In the absence of this nonverbal channel, leaders must rely on expressive verbal behaviours to steer their followers' affect, signals that might be deemed inappropriate in the otherwise usually sober and factual tonality of e-mail communication. This project will explore whether leaders would be well-advised to implement such expressions in their everyday communication in an endeavour to increase their followers' individual and team performance. To achieve this aim, an experimental study will be conducted, assessing the impact of prospective and evaluative expressions of positive and negative as compared to neutral affect in written leader communication on followers' extra effort, willingness to cooperate, and impressions of their leader. Additionally, the potential of employing Emojis as a possible substitute for the missing nonverbal channel of written communication will be explored. Findings of this experiment will yield directly applicable implications for local leaders managing global teams, aiding them to bridge the increasing physical distance to their followers through emotional closeness.

Keywords: Digital Leadership, Emotional Signalling, Leader Communication, Charisma

The dissertation centers around the development of a platform dedicated to monitoring, predicting, and sustaining the health of batteries that power Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It emphasizes the necessity of maintaining battery-powered IoT devices for prolonged deployment, highlighting the utilization of IoT functionality to transmit battery health data to the cloud. In the context of small-scale, low-power IoT devices, the prevalent method involves utilizing counters to gather usage and battery data. The research explores the feasibility of employing low-frequency utilization data exclusively from IoT devices to track, predict, and maintain batteries. It further discusses the integration of physical capacity-based State of Health (SoH) with data-driven SoH models. The ultimate goal is to ensure consistently updated information on battery health.

Discontinuities in the market create space for new disruptive business opportunities. A promising approach for companies to proactively identify and seize future competitive advantages is Data Driven Foresight. By using different data sources from various influential perspectives, Data Driven Foresight can derive solid statements about trend-driven developments in the future. As technology and product life cycles accelerate, industrial firms are increasingly faced with the need to incorporate foresight activities into their Life Cycle Management to support decision making at every life cycle stage. The PhD project provides for the research and development of a novel approach for Data Driven Foresight in Life Cycle Management. In doing so the entire technology lifecycle has to be covered by trend forecasting, so that planning uncertainty in innovation processes is reduced to a minimum.