The launch of the study program of the German-Jordanian University, documented in impEct, which is coordinated by the Faculty of Business Studies at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts and thus underlines our international profile in an outstanding way, deserves special attention.
We also publish the announcement of a research project between the Faculty of Business Studies at the University of Guanajuato and the Faculty of Business Studies at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, as well as a colloquium at the IUT of University 13 (Saint Denis). Finally, you will find news about life at the faculty.
To the articles
The articles in the first issue of impEct have a special feature:
The authors have a close relationship with the Faculty of Business Studies: they are lecturers(Erhard Jürke, Werner Müller-Pelzer) or graduates of the International Business study program(Dirk Haubrich, Fritjof Pils). One of them(Thomas Heiland) combines both: he is a graduate of the Business Studies study program, a doctor of business administration and, in addition to his main job, has been a lecturer in the Faculty of Business Studies for several years. We are also pleased that Prof. Dr. Brigitta Wolf from the University of Magdeburg (together with F. Pils) and Mr. Bjoern Mayland from F. Porsche AG (together with T. Heiland) have contributed to the first issue of impEct as co-authors, thus documenting our intention to also address external researchers and developers. This may encourage all colleagues associated with Fachhochschule Dortmund to accept our invitation to publish research results and projects.
With his plea for Pogge's "Global Resource Dividend", Dirk Haubrich provides an example of the intellectual effort to link operational practice with the legitimacy problem of the market economy.
Dr. Werner Müller-Pelzer explores the consequences that arise from an uncritical adoption of "ubiquitous computing" for the living world and explains the opportunities that Schmitz' theory of situations opens up.
Frithjof Pils and Prof. Dr. Brigitta Wolf address the problem of information asymmetry among social actors and explain the benefits of modeling using the German energy market as an example.
Dr. Thomas Heiland and Bjoern Mayland present the potential of a digital link between the sales function and vehicle configuration using the example of the Porsche Car Configurator.
In his article, Dr. Erhard Jürke examines the extent to which the theory of autonomous learning can be operationalized in order to improve competence in the case of technical English.
Dortmund, October 2005
Werner Müller-Pelzer