Ausgestaltungsfelder internationaler Unternehmenskooperationen

Das Fehlen einer theoretisch und empirisch fundierten Konzeption des Managements im Rahmen internationaler Unternehmenskooperation am Standort Korea auf der Basis strategischer Erfolgsfaktoren bildet den Anlass und den Ausgangspunkt der vorliegenden Arbeit, deren Zielsetzung sich wie folgt formulieren lässt: • Eine erste Zielsetzung ist es, einen theoretisch fundierten Bezugsrahmen potentieller Einflussbereiche des Kooperationserfolgs zu entwickeln. Die einzelnen Bausteine dieses Bezugsrahmens, die zugleich die zentralen Elemente einer Gesamtkonzeption des Kooperationsmanagements darstellen, dienen im Folgenden als Suchfelder für eine theoriegeleitete Identifikation koreaspezifischer Erfolgs- und Misserfolgsfaktoren bei der Gestaltung und Führung internationaler Unternehmenskooperationen am Standort Korea. • Ein weiteres Untersuchungsziel besteht darin, die theoretisch identifizierten Erfolgsfaktoren mit Hilfe der varianzbasierten Strukturanalyse („PLS-Verfahren“) auf ihre empirische Relevanz im Rahmen internationaler Unternehmenskooperationen in Korea zu überprüfen. • Darüber hinaus sollen empirische Resultate auf den jeweiligen konzeptionellen Ebenen für praxis- und anwendungsorientierte Problemlösungsstrategien und -instrumente im Hinblick auf die Auswahl und Ausgestaltung einer adäquaten Koreastrategie abgeleitet werden. • Schließlich besteht das Untersuchungsziel in der Vermittlung von Problemlösungsstrategien mit Blick auf das interkulturelle Management. In diesem Zusammenhang wird in der vorliegenden Arbeit untersucht, inwiefern das unterschiedliche Kulturumfeld der beteiligten Unternehmen die effiziente und effektive Führung einer internationalen Unternehmenskooperation im Falle Korea erschwert und wie diese Kulturdistanz überwunden werden kann.

The Corticiaceae (Basidiomycetes) in Taiwan

Geographically, Taiwan is an Island and situated in the northeast of Asia, on the western side of the Pacific Basin, at the southeast of main China, south of Japan, and north of the Philippines. The main topographic character is the longitudinally oriented mountainous area. More than 200 peaks rise above 3000 m. They departed Taiwan into two lowland areas, an eastern and western plain. Taiwan is departed into subtropical (north area) and tropical zone (south area), which have a warm and humid climate, due to the Tropic of Cancer passing through. The average annual temperature in the lowland amounts to 28°C (7~38°C). The temperate climate also presents in the mountainous areas. The tropical typhoons usually come in summer and bring heavy rain, while the monsoon seasons have an important effect on the regional rainfall distribution. The mean annual rainfall of Taiwan is about 2600 mm (1000~6700 mm); the mountainous areas receive more rain than the lowlands. In Taiwan, according to different temperature and vegetation, the ecological environments were given rise to vertical biotic zonations, and form five major types: highland snowfield, highland meadow, coniferous forest, deciduous forest, and tropical forest. Six National Parks in Taiwan are located in the mountainous areas, in the north, the south, and on Jinmen Island. The National Parks represent about 8.4% of the country area. In this study, the collection sites are situated in Yangmingshan, Shei-Pa, Yushan, and Kenting National Park. Due to the island isolation, the proportions of endemic species are great in Taiwan, which also presents a high biodiversity. There are 4255 species of vascular plants including 1133 endemic. 5936 species in 1276 genera of fungi are hitherto reported in Taiwan. Among them, 233 Corticiaceae species were recorded, over one third (79 species) of them are known only from Taiwan. The first fungal report in Taiwan is about Phytophthora cyperi, published by the Japanese researcher T. Kawakami in 1904. Therefore, the history of research about fungi in Taiwan is more than one hundred years old. An eminent Japanese mycologist K. Sawada made an intensive survey from 1919 to 1959, and reported 2464 fungi species in his eleven volumes of “Descriptive Catalogue of Formosan Fungi”. However, only a few species (21 species in 9 genera) of Corticiaceae were recorded. From 1973, Chen and Lin resumed the study on Corticiaceae, and also some other foreign mycologists contributed for this field after 1980. The German research group lead by Franz Oberwinkler from Tübingen University collected in Taiwan several times. They published a number of new species and new records. Since 1989, S. H. Wu, a Taiwanese mycologist, has published a great amount of reports on corticioid fungi from Taiwan. Corticioid fungi were made up by the large and heterogeneous unnatural family Corticiaceae and other resupinate fungi belonging to other natural families in the Agaricomycetes. Molecular studies have shown that corticioid genera are distributed across all major clades of Agaricomycetes indicating that the corticioid fungi represent a polyphyletic group. They have resupinate fruitbodies and similar habitats. Species are characterized by simple fruitbody, more or less effused, and present smooth, porioid, grandinioid to odontioid hymenial surface. The fruitbodies are differently colored and usually soft to tough. Most of the Corticiaceae species are wood-saprobic organisms and gain the energy from the decomposing of wood-substrate such as cellulose or lignin. Materials for this study were collected by the author and other mycologists in Taiwan during surveys in April and May 1996, and March 2007, using the spring season with its high humidity and warm climate which are optimal conditions for the development of fungi. For assembling, the convenience sampling method was used in this study. This approach was chosen because it enables to detect a high biodiversity in a short time, and also to find species with rare or patchy distribution. The collecting sites from the North to the South include four National Parks and some preserved forests. They cover many different habitats such as low lands and high mountains. Fresh specimens were dried and analysed with a light microscope. 265 specimens belonging to Corticiaceae were studied in this research. Among them, 50 species in 21 genera including 11 new records and 10 new species were described with text and drawing. Four new species are belonging to Hyphodontia (H. sp. nov. 1, H. sp. nov. 2, H. sp. nov. 3, and H. sp. nov. 4), four to Schizopora (Sch. sp. nov. 1, Sch. sp. nov. 2, Sch. sp. nov. 3, and Sch. sp. nov. 4), one in Trechispora (T. sp. nov. 1), and one in Tubulicrinis (T. sp. nov. 1). Species recorded as new are Aleurodiscus amorphus, Botryohypochnus isabellinus, Hyphodontia cineracea, Hyphodontia palmae, Hypochnicium vellereum, Merulius tremellosus, Metulodontia nivea, Paullicorticium ansatum, Phlebia radiata, Phlebiella ardosiaca, and Xylobolus frustulatus. Besides, Botryohypochnus, Merulius, Metulodontia, Paullicorticium, and Xylobolus are also newly recorded genera in Taiwan. The genus Hyphodontia presents the highest diversity with 20 out of 50 species recorded. The second important genus is Hyphoderma, however with only 5 species. This indicates that Hyphodontia and Hyphoderma have a higher ability to develop in variable environments and approximately shows the predominance of these two genera in Taiwanese Corticiaceae. There are 11 new records out of the 50 species recorded, representing 22%. Some species, e.g. Hypochnicium vellereum and Paullicorticium ansatum were in the past recorded only in Europe and North America with cold and temperate climate. The samples of them are for the first time found in the subtropical belt, and display some difference from those of temperate regions. These collections should be molecularly investigated to clarify if they represent the same species of temperate areas. Patchily distributed species, for example Phlebiella ardosiaca, previously known only in Europe, and Hyphodontia palmae collected only in Brazil, were first recorded in different continents. Two possibilities are indicated by these new records: they are worldwide species but very rare to be found, or the Taiwanese specimens are taxonomically different. More survey from other continents and molecular study for these collections should be done in the future to solve this question. The distribution of Corticiaceae in Taiwan presents the variations in the north, central, and south areas and shows the diversity in lowlands and high mountains. The results of this study provide the evidence that the temperate Corticiaceae species displays a wider distribution. Subtropical and tropical taxa probably have also high dispersal capacities, and could possibly be found in the future in neighboring areas such as China, Japan, Korea or South Asia, but this needs further researches. In the total of 50 species, 10 new taxa were described in this study, giving about 20%. Some new species (e.g. Hyphodontia sp. 1, Hyphodontia sp. 2, and Hyphodontia sp. 3) are very similar to known species (Hyphodontia sambuci and Hyphodontia formosana), and the distinctive characters of Schizopora sp. nov. 1 are intermediate between those of Schizopora paradoxa and Hyphodontia flavipora. Thus, these small differences between the new and known species, suggest that the speciation occurred when the fungi migrated into Taiwan, due to the high diversity of environment, and amounts of the endemic plants. Taiwan is an intermediate place for the south (tropical) fungal species to migrate and adapt to north (temperate) regions. The middle and high altitude environments in Taiwan offer good conditions for the fungal speciation and possibly the occurrence of physiological changes to adapt to the temperate climate. Thus Taiwan has an important position for the biogeography of Asia mycobiota. 5936 known species in Taiwan represent about only 20% of the estimated number (24000) of Taiwanese fungal taxa. In this study, the findings (22% new records and 20% new species) indicate that amounts of unknown fungi species are expected in Taiwan. The lack of knowledge indicates that many new species are awaiting description, and fungal survey in Taiwan remains in a Pioneer phase. The last three wide surveys of Corticiaceae researches took place 20 years before this study (Chen & Lin 1977, Lin & Chen 1989, Wu 1990). After previous important contributions, the present taxonomic study comprising 21 genera is the most extensive on Corticiaceae of Taiwan.

The Pursuit of Alternatives

Stories of peoples’ struggles across the globe are testaments to their determination to resist exploitation and injustice, and to imagine and construct their own narratives of economic and political difference. These stories of emancipatory moments demonstrate that something radically different in terms of dominant socio-economic relations and mental conceptions of the world may arise out of and beyond capitalism. The Pursuit of Alternatives: Stories of Peoples’ Economic and Political Struggles Around the World presents a fresh and new perspective on how the ‘process of becoming’ alternatives might take place based on peoples’ lived experiences. The chapters here, by labour activists and academics, explore how various forms of peoples’ economic and political initiatives and struggles in six countries – Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Nigeria, the Philippines, and South Korea – might become ‘actually existing’ spaces and moments for the development of critical consciousness and transformative capacities which are both central in challenging the dominant social, economic and political relations. The stories in this book bring to light today’s language of peoples’ struggles; what inspires people to create their own emancipatory moments and spaces for transformative self-change. While this book does not aim to propose an alternative to capitalism per se, it makes a stimulating contribution to the continuing debate on what alternatives to capitalist relations and arrangements might look like by grounding these alternatives in the everyday lives and struggles of workers, women, aboriginal peoples, the unemployed, and the poor.

Arbeitssicherheit bei Arbeitsunfällen und Berufskrankheiten

Arbeitsbedingte Gesundheitsrisiken und deren Folgen stellen eine volkswirtschaftliche Störung dar und führen zu erheblichen Kosten in der gesamten Volkswirtschaft. Arbeitsunfälle und Berufskrankheiten mindern sowohl das Wohlbefinden der Betroffenen als auch die Wohlfahrt der gesamten Volkswirtschaft. Um die Arbeitssicherheit zu gewährleisten ist es daher die Aufgabe des Staates, richtige Rahmenbedingungen der wirtschaftlichen Tätigkeit zu schaffen und effektive Präventions- und Kompensationsmaßnahmen gegen arbeitsbedingte Gesundheitsrisiken zu entwickeln. Hauptzweck eines staatlichen Absicherungssystems gegen Arbeitsunfälle und Berufskrankheiten sollte sowohl eine effektive Prävention von Unfällen sein als auch die Gewährleistung einer angemessenen Entschädigung für den verunfallten Arbeitnehmer. Hinsichtlich der Prävention ist zu prüfen, welche Wirkung von dem Absicherungssystem für die Unfallverhütung ausgeht und wie dessen Vor- und Nachteile zu bewerten sind. Bezüglich der Kompensation soll klargestellt werden, in welchem Umfang Entschädigungsleistungen innerhalb des Absicherungssystems gewährleistet werden sollen, um den entstandenen Schaden des Arbeitnehmers ausreichend zu kompensieren. Im Rahmen dieser Zweckbestimmung spielt die gesetzliche Unfallversicherung, die ein soziales Absicherungssystem gegen Arbeitsunfällen und Berufskrankheiten ist, eine wichtige Rolle. Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit einer rechtsvergleichenden Untersuchung des gegenwärtig geltenden Unfallversicherungsrechts in Deutschland und Korea. Sinn und Zweck der hier angestellten rechtsvergleichende Untersuchung ist es durch eine kritische Analyse und eine Gegenüberstellung mit dem deutschen Recht, Ansätze einer effizienteren Gestaltung und Reformoptionen für das in Korea bestehende gesetzliche Unfallversicherungssystem herauszuarbeiten. In diesem Zusammenhang wird das Recht der deutschen und koreanischen gesetzlichen Unfallversicherung mithilfe verschiedener Kategorien verglichen. Dabei werden Grundgedanken, die Rechtsnatur sowie Präventions-, Rehabilitations- und Kompensationsfunktionen des jeweiligen Unfallversicherungssystems untersucht.