EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht (literally "university for business and law"), more commonly referred to as EBS Universität or simply EBS, is a private, state-approved research university for business and law located in Wiesbaden and Oestrich-Winkel, founded in 1971. The university's activities focus on three core areas: undergraduate degree programs, postgraduate degree programs and executive education. The EBS Universität has the right to award doctorates and habilitations and is the oldest private university in Germany.With the foundation of its law faculty in 2010, the former European Business School was awarded university status in 2011, forming the EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht. Notable alumni are, e.g., former CEO of Puma (Jochen Zeitz), founder of Vapiano (Mark Korzilius), or former CEO of Deutsche Telekom AG (Kai-Uwe Ricke). Among the university's corporate partners, one can find McKinsey, Bertelsmann, Clifford Chance, Daimler AG, or UBS. Academic partnerships include UC Berkeley, Bocconi University, CEIBS, Sciences Po, National University of Singapore, and McGill University.
Steward-ownership is a novel conceptualization of ownership galvanizing attention from entrepreneurs, business owners, policymakers, and academics around the world. Two main principles distinguish it from traditional models of ownership: (1) decoupling control rights and economic rights and (2) asset lock, whereby company resources cannot be privatized by shareholders. This curated conversation among 11 interdisciplinary researchers unpacks the transformative potential of steward-ownership for management theory. Contributors discuss how our current knowledge of steward-ownership, along with what we can come to know through targeted future research, offers important insights for scholarship on purpose, entrepreneurship, corporate governance, impact investing, hybridity, and alternative forms of organizing.
Business-to-business (B2B) platforms hold transformative potential for manufacturing by enabling firms to collaborate, share data, and coordinate decisions across interconnected cyber-physical networks. However, many firms struggle to fully leverage these platforms due to bounded rationality, as decision-makers face difficulties in processing fragmented, heterogeneous, and real-time data streams. Interconnected Digital Twins (IDTs) offer a promising technological response to this challenge. By integrating data from multiple sources and simulating dynamic manufacturing processes across organizational boundaries, IDTs create shared, real-time representations of operations that support decision-making in complex B2B ecosystems. Grounded in Endsley's Situation Awareness Theory, this study examines how IDTs support perception, comprehension, and projection in cross-organizational decision-making. We conducted an exploratory qualitative case study of a leading automotive manufacturer, drawing on ethnographic access to its IDT implementation. Our findings show that IDTs enhance situation awareness and support cross-organizational decision-making by consolidating fragmented data and reducing cognitive overload through simulation. The study contributes to B2B platform ecosystem research by identifying IDTs as a technological enabler of digital transformation and demonstrating their role in enhancing situation awareness in industrial ecosystems.
The Latin slogan iudex non calculat is on the rise. It appears in well over thirty English-language journals and a federal court decision in the United States; in Germany, more than sixty law journal articles mention the phrase in their titles alone, and German members of parliament have used it more frequently in the years 2020–2023 than in most previous decades combined. The phrase gets invoked as an “ancient”, “antique”, or “Roman” maxim of legal and political practice in Europe and the U.S. alike. Does this show how shared history unites even dissimilar legal systems? Hardly so. There is no general understanding of what the maxim is supposed to mean, or where it actually originated, or what rhetorical effect it serves. An exploration of these questions reveals a fascinating story of intellectual export across the Atlantic: The phrase is not, as commonly assumed, of Roman or antique origin, although it must be considerably older than 1850. It must have originated in Germany, where we find the oldest occurrences and whose authors, topics, and journals clearly drive its international propagation since 1947. There are at least four different interpretations of the maxim, each with opposing connotations, making it a versatile tool in lawyers’ rhetorical kit. While academics seem to use it mostly to produce an aura of erudition and epistemological authority, politicians employ it as an offensive or defensive quip mostly among male conservatives. Among German law students, it is by far the best-known principle, maxim or proverb related to law and numbers, although students, too, disagree about its exact meaning. While they acknowledge that the maxim has become part of German lawyers’ professional identity, many wish it were otherwise.
Eco-anxiety refers to psychological distress arising from the anticipated impacts of planetary crises. Even though young people are at major risk for both psychopathology and the long-term consequences of planetary crises, no psychometrically validated German instrument currently exists to assess eco-anxiety in this age group, and research on age differences in eco-anxiety remains limited. The present study aimed to replicate the psychometric properties of the German validation study of the Hogg Eco-Anxiety Scale (HEAS) in a younger age group (N = 414; Mage = 20.24, SDage = 2.80, age range: 15-25) as well as the four-factor structure (Affective Symptoms, Rumination, Behavioral Symptoms, and Anxiety about Personal Impact). By combining the present sample with two additional samples, measurement invariance across two age groups (15-25 years vs. >25 years) was established, suggesting that the HEAS measures eco-anxiety similarly across ages. All hypotheses were confirmed; additionally, latent mean comparisons show that the younger group experiences higher levels of eco-anxiety than the older group. Exploratory analyses further found that participants demonstrating elevated symptoms of depression or anxiety reported significantly higher levels of eco-anxiety across all HEAS subscales. Moreover, individuals residing in metropolitan areas scored higher on the scale Anxiety about the Personal Impact compared to participants from rural regions. Enhancing the precision of eco-anxiety assessment depending on age, clinical status, and geographical contexts enables the targeted development and implementation of preventive and therapeutic interventions according to the level of severity indicated by this instrument.
We aimed to provide updated data on the use of vitamin D supplements in the German general population and to investigate their knowledge regarding vitamin D. Subject and methods In November 2024, 4156 participants aged 16 to 65 years were recruited using quota-based sampling. Questions included the use of vitamin D supplements, knowledge of potential health benefits of vitamin D, risk groups for vitamin D deficiency, and sources of vitamin D. In weighted analyses, 4160 cases were included. Multinomial logistic regression was used to explore the determinants of supplement use. In the 12 months prior to the survey, 22.9
