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Item Restricted Consequences of global pandemic on workplace and HRM practices in digital start-up companies in Berlin(2021) Soroka, Timur; Mantel, Peter; Poljsak-Rosinski, Petra; bachelor thesis in Digital Business and ManagementThe Covid-19 pandemic has forced many governments worldwide to impose numerous restrictions. The impact of these restrictions also affected the organizational practised by requiring many employees to work remotely from home. This paper analyses the implications of Covid-19 crisis on digital/IT-related start-up companies. Digital professionals are accustomed to flexible working arrangements, but not all of them remotely and for a long continuing time. In total 20 written interviews were conducted. Ten among them with HR managers of the start-up companies in Berlin and other ten with employees of a medium-big internationally active IoT start-up also based in Berlin. Findings revealed that the main implication of Covid-19 crisis for HRM practises affected onboarding processes, followed by employee engagement activities, while performance evaluation and training practises were affected in a lesser degree. Due to virtual onboarding practises, it takes now more time to educate and introduce new hires to the company. Limited virtual engagement activities lead to lack of personal communication between employees and decrease sense of belonginess. On the other side, results have shown that employees are more productive, independent and focused on the job while in the home office. Overall, current study concludes that managing the remote work of digital professionals was not a significant challenge for HR managers in start-up companiesItem Restricted COVID-19 as an Accelerator for eLearning Solutions in German Universities(2021) Herold, Marvin M; Behar Villegas, Erick; Lieb, Manfred G; bachelor thesis in Digital Business and ManagementThe current lockdown situation as the result of coronavirus has proven to be severely impactful to businesses and the education industry alike. Many educational institutions have found technical and organizational solutions to continue their studies so that the students are not affected as much by the prevailing situation. The eLearning industry has experienced significant growth and has proven to be the backbone of the education industry. Germany has also learned the importance of eLearning in the face of COVID-19 and has shown great improvements compared to the pre-pandemic situation. Germany has identified the gap in digital learning and is gradually taking the necessary steps to upgrade the academic infrastructure. The lack of learning resources and tools to enhance digital learning was a great challenge. The technical eLearning platforms have come across multiple opportunities during this situation to expand their business and introduce new features in their platforms that can support the development of online learning needs for students. Microsoft has upgraded its Microsoft Teams App to allow a simple learning process for students by collaborating and communicating easily. At the same time, this App has been used frequently by businesses for internal and external meetings. The addition of this feature has increased the share price of the company and its usage has increased by 78% during COVID-19. Students in Germany have positively responded to online learning solutions, although predisposed in general to conventional classroom-style teaching. The positive experiences from online study mechanisms have influenced the trend. Overall students have shown high levels of satisfaction and simply reveal that online learning systems are a great enhancement to traditional learning approaches. Amongst other topics, this study analyzes the communication behavior of students via digital devices and how the rise of COVID-19 has propagated eLearning in Germany. Although the focus is on the technical aspects especially in Germany, this thesis also highlights social and psychological challenges with the adoption of eLearning in general for recommended further studiesItem Restricted International business in the era of COVID-19 on the example of the Nike brand(2021) Gojdź, Kamil; Mantel, Peter; Poljsak-Rosinski, Petra; bachelor thesis in Business Administration - International Management and MarketingItem Restricted Investigation of the Impact of Covid 19 Pandemic on Tourism Revenues and Tourism Sector in Germany(2021) Koçak, Burçin; Behar Villegas, Erick; Mantel, Peter; bachelor thesis inThe tourism sector plays an important role in the development of countries. The tourism sector, which keeps social, political and economic relations alive on an international scale, is very quickly affected by the developments in the world. A new epidemic that emerged by the end of 2019 is the Covid-19 virus. Not knowing how long this epidemic will continue and in what direction it will progress has also caused concern in the tourism sector. In this research, how the tourism sector, which has shown a very high decline in Germany, is affected and the measures that can be taken are evaluated. The research question of this study is that What kind of measures can be taken in economic policies to overcome the decreasing tourism revenues that emerged in the EU and Germany during the Covid-19 period in the tourism industry? Various data on the five largest economies of the European Union (Germany, England, France, Italy, Spain) are analyzed in the research. In this way, the relations between the variables were examined by using the simple correlation analysis method by evaluating the data of the countries. When the findings are evaluated, the income loss experienced in the tourism sector has negative consequences on macroeconomic indicators and negatively affects the economy of the country. As a result of the research, various suggestions are developed, and various solution suggestions are presented regarding the development of the sectorItem Restricted Quantifying the Financial Effects of Covid-19 on the Example of Small Local Businesses in Berlin(2021) Ludwig, Johannes; Poljsak-Rosinski, Petra; Artinger, Florian M; bachelor thesis in Digital Business and ManagementThe following work illustrates and describes the financial effects that the COVID-19 pandemic had on small local businesses in Berlin. Based on four selected businesses from three different sectors, the data-collection is used to scale the financial impact of the pandemic on each of the four businesses. The businesses are compared to each other to assess their individual financial development. To understand the reasons behind specific financial changes a selection of the most influential governmental COVID-19 regulations and support measurements will be introduced and briefly explained. Furthermore, a study from the German Institute of Economics is going to be evaluated. Since it analyzes the financial effect of COVID-19 on German businesses in general, their research approach will be discussed and collected information is used to enhance the analysis methods of this study. Used approaches and analyzing methods will be explained during the methodology while also giving insight into the type of data and simultaneously justifying the chosen methods. For the empirical part the collected data gets visualized, meaning each company ́s sales revenue for 2019 and 2020 are charted in a diagram and their respective graph is explained while also highlighting the time span of selected impactful COVID-19 regulations. At the end all results will be interpreted and compared with the study from the German Institute of EconomicsItem Restricted The impact of digital transformation on food delivery service during the covid-19 pandemic : The case studies of Grab Food Thailand(2021) Vuteerapon, Naiyapak; Poljsak-Rosinski, Petra; Artinger, Florian M; Business Administration - International Management & MarketingThe main purpose of this research paper is to take a closer look at what a chosen company did in term of solving the problems arising after the pandemic has started as well as to revise the significance of the network effect and digital transformation in a modern-day business world. Due to uprising competition, business has to learn how to adapt to a fast -changing environment. Business decision needs to be taken just in time to keep up the competitive edge. Grab Food Thailand, one of the main market players struggled in the beginning to cope with their challenges due to an increase in amount of demand. They had to resolve the problem fast to fulfill Thai's people demand. In the work, different analysis approaches were applied to illustrate and exemplify the theoretical knowledge in real life circumstances. The main study results are the fact that Grab employed crisis management principle in order to resolve the problem regarding the pandemic. They executed the plan fast resulting in market domination, sales growth and expansion of customer base. For future suggestion, the study of changes in consumption behavior could be done as it could be an indicator of market prediction in this industry. Therefore, business could foresee possible opportunity for investment or notItem Restricted The impact of the spread of the coronavirus on the aviation industry : an analysis(2020) Ibragimov, Oleg; Behar Villegas, Erick; Poljsak-Rosinski, Petra; bachelor thesis in Business Administration"This paper gives an overview of the impact of the spread of the COVID-19 on the Aviation industry. It is concentrated explicitly on three airlines: Ryanair, Wizz Air, and EasyJet. The main focus is looking at the challenges the companies and their customers faced at three different times: beginning, peak, and end of the Coronavirus Crisis. It will give briefly give the overviews of those companies and define Crisis Management. Three cases of the companies and how they manage the situation with crisis and will look at their interaction with their customers at three different times. Template analysis and 4Ps will be applied to analyze the data and come up with the results, conclusions, recommendations. Keywords: Template analysis, 4Ps, Risk, Crisis, Crisis Management, the beginning, peak, and end of the Coronavirus crisis, EASA, COVID-19, Coronavirus Crisis, Ryanair, EasyJet, Wizz Air."Item Restricted The Live Music Industry in Berlin and COVID-19 ; how they adapt and survive(2021) Crosswell, Mariela Zendejas; Artinger, Florian M; bachelor thesis in Business Administration - International Management and MarketingThe music industry in Berlin is a prominent economic aspect of the city, with around 4,450 companies and 13,300 people dedicated to it. Musical tourism and the club culture are an essential part of the very fabric of the city. Through surveys, it analyzes how the creative industry artists and employees survive in times when COVID-19 restrictions have made it borderline impossible to continue working in the live music industry in BerlinItem Restricted To Manage Or Not To Manage Risk Assessment(2021) Taylor, Richard; Behar Villegas, Erick; Mantel, Peter; bachelor thesis in Business Administration - International Management and MarketingThe current Coronavirus pandemic conditions and its effect on the supply chain is an issue that is being viewed from the context of crisis management, instead of, as an issue that should be viewed through risk management. While both are similar and often interchangeable it must be recognized that while the supply chain is currently undergoing a crisis, had risk assessment been properly managed, the supply chain disruptions would have been avoided in the first place. Better management of the supply chain would be achieved through striking that balance between cost efficiency and reliability. Some manufacturers in the automobile industry, with their 'Just In Time' processes, have been particularly adversely affected by the current disruptions to the supply chain. The complex logistics behind the supply chain is a factor that is covered by risk management protocols, yet, it can be argued that these manufacturers have disregarded these protocols in pursuit of lowering costs in the name of efficiency. Herein, we note the case of two manufacturers, General Motors of the United States and the Indian owned but British based Jaguar Land Rover Group, to see examples of how the industry can choose different paths, either to fully manage and follow risk assessment protocols, or choose to emphasize operational efficiency above all else and take the calculated risk in minimizing or disregarding those risk protocols