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Sustainability figures prominently in the rhetoric around the nonfinancial responsibilities of business, as is manifest in the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Often, however, sustainability assumes a narrow social and ecological meaning. A more comprehensive and apt concept would instead focus on the political dimension of sustainability. The long‐term success of business depends primarily on sound institutions as embodied in the liberal democratic state. Therefore, companies should invest politically in strengthening the public realm—to their own benefit. CSR misses this strategic nexus; rather, the business case lies in the adoption of a corporate political responsibility (CPR). Advocating for a broad definition of what is political, the paper lays out concrete CPR fields of action that allow companies to become political brands. As a holistic concept to conceive of the interface between business and politics, CPR does not only help to secure a company's longevity, but also reorients our understanding and practice of public affairs.

This dissertation builds on the current anthropological studies of care relations in practice. It draws inspiration from science and technology studies (STS) and postfeminist technoscience. A qualitative ethnographic approach grounds the empirical data collection and analysis. This entails ethnographic fieldwork with senior home care in the United States and Sweden during 2007–2008 and 2011–2012. Analytical attention centers on how movements situate various tensions of senior home care in practice. Four interrelated published works comprise the main thematic chapters. Each article exemplifies how human and nonhuman relations move and mediate care. They develop several heuristic terms that advance ideas about how older people, aging bodies, technologies, spaces, and times that tinker each other through movements of care in practice. The comprehensive summary frames these articles with an overview of the primary thematic orientations and methodological concerns. A discussion of the main contributions and implications of the dissertation concludes the work.

In this article I trace mediated effects that surface with attentions to seniors and their bodies in care. This includes new technologies for visualizing and monitoring the body. I also consider the implications of mediated body-technology attentions for care surveillance. Surveillance offers valuable analytical purchase in the study of care. Yet, care attentions are not always straightforward. These can become obstructed, negotiated and transformed with technologies for care. There are multiple empirical examples of how technically mediated attentions produce ambiguous or multivalent effects, both in the literature and my own ethnographic work. These multivalent effects, I argue, displace the notion of surveillance in care. To strengthen my argument, I draw on STS-inspired anthropological studies of care. Lastly I proffer the term "care-valence" as a heuristic compliment to the notion of care surveillance. This term, I proffer, benefits the analysis of how care attentions effect somatechnic relations.

Praxisbezogene Einführung in das allgemeine Recht und den Schutz des "geistigen Eigentums". Rezension : Für Verantwortliche in Unternehmen, Industrie- und Handelskammern, Erfinder und Gründer. Im Mittelpunkt stehen praktische Empfehlungen und Hilfen, um Produktpiraterie zu erkennen und sich zu schützen. Ausführliche Hinweise zu einzelnen Schutzrechten: technische Erfindungen, Patente, Gebrauchsmuster, Urheberrecht, Designrecht, EU-Gemeinschaftsgeschmacksmuster, Marken- und Kennzeichenrechte, Geschäftsgeheimnisse, wettbewerblicher Leistungsschutz. Es folgen Massnahmen zur Umsetzung im Unternehmen und bei Rechtsverstöe︢n von der Abmahnung bis zur Hauptsachklage. Auf die Aufzählung und langwierige Erläuterung von Rechtsnormen wurde weitgehend verzichtet. Für ausgebaute Bestände. (3)

Aus ökonomischer Sicht sollte der Mix staatlich finanzierter Bildungsmaßnahmen neuen Erkenntnissen über deren private und soziale Grenzerträge angepasst werden. Frühe Hilfen sind Unterstützungsangebote für Kinder in sozial benachteiligten Umgebungen, die möglichst früh ansetzen, idealerweise schon in der Schwangerschaft. Die sich entwickelnde ökonomische Theorie der Fähigkeitsbildung sagt dieser Form der Bildungspolitik hohe soziale Renditen voraus. Anhand eines Experiments mit randomisierten Kontrollgruppendesigns soll der Nachweis der Wirksamkeit früher Hilfen erbracht werden. Als Untersuchungsgegenstand des Experiments dient das Modellprojekt Pro Kind, das sich an erstgebärende Mütter mit ökonomischen und sozialen Belastungsfaktoren wendet. Erste Auswertungen zeigen, dass das Modellprojekt diese Zielgruppe erreicht und dass die Belastungssituation mit einer Entwicklungsverzögerung des Kindes, gemessen am Kopfumfang, verbunden ist. Ein erster, vorläufiger Treatment-Effekt ist die Erhöhung des Geburtsgewichtes und der Körpergröße bei Jungen. Weitere Forschung in späteren Entwicklungsphasen ist erforderlich, um die Effizienz früher Hilfen in Deutschland näher zu bestimmen. ; For efficiency reasons, the policy-mix of publicly financed educational measures should be adapted to novel insights into their private and social returns. Early childhood interventions are targeted to children in socially disadvantaged environments, beginning as soon as possible, ideally before birth. The developing theory of skill formation predicts high social returns for this kind of human capital policy. To provide evidence for this, a randomized controlled experiment is conducted. Object of investigation is the Pro Kind project which is targeted to first time mothers in economically and socially disadvantaged environments. Early results show that the project reaches its target group and that the poor environments lead to retarded development, measured by head circumference. First, preliminary results include an effect of treatment on boy's birth weight and body length at birth. Further research in later stages of development is needed to explore the efficiency of early childhood interventions in Germany.