Université de Fribourg

Ecoregional Governance: Transboundary Environmental Cooperation in the Carpatho-Danubian Area

Voyloshnikova, Daria ; Casasus, Gilbert (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2020.

The dissertation examines the contemporary environmental governance complex covering the transboundary area of the Carpathians and Danube with a focus on ecoregional approach. The strategic importance of these two geographical objects accounts for an intertwined system of varied institutions and initiatives contributing to addressing ecological challenges in the area through international...

  • The decentralization of state administration and property rights redistribution resulted in a new architecture of responsibility for ecology matters....
  • In Poland, the Ab Ovo Association obtained Swiss support for the protection of the Raba River and its valley (Tarliska…, 2015)....
  • KIK/37, Swiss Contribution....
  • The publication of this book was made possible thanks to the generous support of the »Institut Littéraire Kultura«....
  • Similar to Brzozowski, yet on a certainly less sophisticated level, Dontsov referred to writers and poets in order to support his views on the essence of the Ukrainian nation....
  • Again, the nineteenth century and its great prose support Brzozowski’s novelistic design....
Haute Ecole de Gestion & Tourisme

The influence of changing framework conditions on tourism : The case of the Russian Federation

Kochurova, Elena ; Keller, Peter (Dir.)

Mémoire de bachelor : Haute Ecole de Gestion & Tourisme, 2016.

This conceptual bachelor thesis is an attempt to approach the important question of the impact of the framework conditions on the growth and the development of tourism of a given country. In a first step the relevant political and economic framework conditions for tourism are defined. In a second step, the main forms of systemic, cyclic, structural and stochastic of changes of these framework...

  • The Russian government responded in support of the ruble by repeatedly raising interest rates....
  • The new policy included abandonment of ruble support and a move to a floating rate regime (Figure 8) (Leeds-faculty.colorado.edu)....
  • Economics, USI, Entrepreneur in the Gastronomic Industry, Moscow - Natalia Vart, General Manager, Swiss National Tourism Office, Moscow 3.2....
  • Such decentralization meant that there never has been a clearly articulated human resource strategy at enterprise levels.”...
  • Supported by SCOPES Program of Swiss National Fund....
  • Due to decentralization of functions, the process is highly bureaucratic....
Université de Fribourg

Functional competencies and their effects on performance of manufacturing companies in Vietnam

Nguyen, Thi Mai Anh ; Grünig, Rudolf (Dir.) ; Davoine, Eric (Codir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2008.

The manufacturing industry plays a key role in Vietnam (due to its labour advantage), generating jobs, contributing to social and political stability, and adding high value exports to help the balance payment. As Vietnam becomes more and more active in its pursuit of global economic integration, the entry of many foreign giants into its own domestic market will surely intensify the competition....

  • Sincere thanks also go to Swiss Development Corporation (SDC) and the Swiss- AIT-Vietnam (SAV) programme for granting the scholarship for this PhD program....
  • The variable ‘Providing computerization & decentralization of production control system’ proved to be most appropriate for deletion because it had the lowest value of communalities (Appendix 6)....
  • Thus ‘Providing computerization & decentralization of production control system’ became an excluded variable in the next run of factor analysis....