The first volume of the new Yearbook tries to catch the broadness of contemporary International Economic Law. In part I, it brings together articles on a variety of subjects, reaching from exchange rate manipulation and financial market supervision over international investment law including the growing investment protectionism to recent developments of the external economic constitution of the European Union and the relationship between climate change and International Economic Law. Part II covers the major regional economic integration developments around the globe, analysed in different...

Produktdesign wird von vielen Industrieunternehmen immer noch vernachlassigt. Dabei haben Unternehmen wie Bosch, Festo, Gildemeister, Heidelberg, MAN und viele andere mehr in den letzten Jahren bewiesen, dass dem Design gerade auch im Industrieguterbereich eine wichtige Bedeutung zukommt. Dies gilt nicht nur fur die Entwicklung neuer industrieller Produktlosungen, sondern auch fur die allgemeine Unternehmensentwicklung, weil das Design die Qualitatswahrnehmung, die Preisbereitschaft, den Innovationserfolg, die Markenstarke und damit auch den Umsatz und Gewinn von Industrieunternehmen...

This, the first part of the second volume of this authoritative yearbook, examines two key areas of current academic debate: the relationship between the state and the global economy, and the interaction between climate change and international economic law.

Gestaltungsmoglichkeiten eines Life Cycle Managements, zur Umsetzung der Anforderungen einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung in Unternehmen, sind Inhalt des Buchs. Okonomische und okologische Anforderungen erfordern die lebensphasenubergreifende Betrachtung von Produkten und Prozessen als zentrale Aufgabe in Unternehmen. Der Autor stellt einen Bezugsrahmen bereit, der die vielfaltigen Aspekte eines Life Cycle Managements zuganglich macht. Dabei unterscheidet er zwischen lebensphasenbezogenen Disziplinen (Produkt-, Produktions-, After-Sales und End-of-Life Management) und...

After the IPS conferences in Cranfield and Link ping in 2009 and 2010 the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems (IPS ) 2011 takes place in Braunschweig, Germany. IPS itself is defined as an integrated industrial product and service offering that delivers value in use . The customers expect comprehensive solutions, which are adapted to their individual needs. IPS offers the possibility to stand out from competition and for long-term customer loyalty. Particularly in times of economic crisis it becomes apparent which producing companies understand to satisfy...

Part one of Volume 4 (2013) of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law offers a special focus on recent developments in international competition policy and law. International competition law has only begun to emerge as a distinct subfield of international economic law in recent years, even though international agreements on competition co-operation date back to the 1970s. Competition law became a prominent subject of political and academic debates in the late 1990s when competition and trade were discussed as one of the Singapore issues in the WTO. Today, international...

Since the beginning of the process of European integration the EU Common Commercial Policy (CCP) has been one of the most dynamic political fields. The EU has achieved a leading role among the economic superpowers and is regarded as a single economic area in which the EU speaks also on behalf of its Member States for most aspects of external economic politics. This volume analyzes the implications of the Treaty of Lisbon for the Common Commercial Policy of the EU. The Lisbon Treaty has declared all matters concerning external commercial policy as exclusive competences of the EU. Which...