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  • Publication
    Patterns for Resilient Value Creation: Perspective of the German Electrical Industry during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    ( 2021)
    Neumann, Konstantin orcid-logo
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    Erp, Tim van
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    Steinhöfel, Erik
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    Sieckmann, Felix
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    Kohl, Holger
    The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive, often unanticipated, external disruption for many companies. As a concept for responding to such disruption, organizational resilience has recently received great attention. In the organizational context, the overriding question is how companies can become more resilient. This study aims to contribute to answering this question by identifying, categorizing, and providing specific business model patterns for achieving resilience on the corporate level. For this purpose, a review of publications by major consulting firms was conducted. Patterns were extracted from publications until a convergence criterion indicated that no new pattern could be identified considering further publications. The 110 extracted unique patterns were clustered into 13 objectives, and additionally categorized according to resilience phases, as well as business model elements, to support the application in practice. The final catalog of patterns was validated through expert interviews and thus provides organizations, such as those in the electrical industry, with an overview and specific approaches on how to tackle industrial resilience through the adaption of their business model.
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    Sustainability Reporting in German Manufacturing SMEs
    ( 2019)
    Steinhöfel, Erik
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    Galeitzke, Mila
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    Kohl, Holger
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    Orth, Ronald
    This paper investigates how small and medium-sized enterprises from the German manufacturing sector address sustainability issues through the implementation of sustainability reporting. For this purpose, 14 sustainability reports were analyzed with regard to the extent that they apply the framework provided by the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), as well as the differences between companies that apply the GRI framework and companies that do not. In addition, indicators and related units that are used to report sustainability are investigated. The findings of this contribution show that there is a general lack of consistency among the considered sustainability reports, which demands for further harmonization of sustainability reporting in order to ensure comparability of sustainability performance across different organizations.
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    Wissensmanagement in Freien Berufen
    ( 2018)
    Steinhöfel, Erik