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The journey to sustainable logistics
(Universität Vechta, 2026) Lauenstein, Sören; Born, Karl Martin Prof. Dr.; Schank, Christoph Prof. Dr.
Decentralised and globally operating organisations that engage in both urban and rural environments encounter the complex challenge of uniformly developing and implementing sustainability initiatives across these diverse spaces. Addressing this challenge necessitates a coherent strategic alignment, underpinned by a comprehensive narrative. This serves as a framework for the global and regional management of an organisation, as different regions may be characterized by different economic and cultural requirements. Such a narrative is instrumental in mitigating the risk of organisational islands while simultaneously enabling the formulation of region-specific strategies. To achieve this, it is imperative to foster robust communication and collaboration between decentralised and central organisational units, ensuring that overarching organisational objectives are harmonized with regional requirements. The effective integration of these units cultivates a shared understanding of the organisation's broader goals and minimizes the potential for fragmentation into island units. These challenges can be illustrated particularly well in the logistics sector. Global supply chains, from product manufacture to the end customer, pass through many stages and are therefore faced with different technological, cultural and organisational challenges. In the absence of a cohesive sustainability strategy, decentralised organisations are at significant risk of devolving into independently functioning islands. Similar challenges are faced by transnational organisations in particular, as the balance between global integration and local adaptation is often insufficiently guaranteed. This problem also affects the organisation examined as an example, whose structure and challenges reflect typical characteristics of transnational organisations and require a targeted strategic orientation. As an outcome, maintaining effective communication across management, departments, and employees is critical to establishing a unified understanding of objectives, priorities, and the pathways to achieve them.
The lack of empirical evidence often makes well-founded decisions difficult, with subjective assessments playing a dominant role. In addition, external influences, such as the EU taxonomy, further increase the complexity of decision-making by placing additional demands on transparency and sustainability. This dissertation addresses the complex challenges faced by decentralised and global organisations operating in urban and rural areas, particularly in the development and unified implementation of sustainability initiatives. To explore these challenges, the dissertation utilizes a mixed-method approach that includes a systematic literature review, two qualitative empirical analyses and a conceptual framework. The qualitative analyses were conducted in collaboration with a global logistics organisation that is undergoing a transformation process to systematically integrate sustainability into its profit centres.
The first analysis, which is a literature review, examines what technological solutions exist for road logistics in urban areas that do not fit into the traditional CEP (courier, express and parcel) framework. The results show that the existing literature focuses predominantly on urban CEP logistics, while detailed studies on general cargo or groupage logistics are largely lacking. The second analysis, a qualitative empirical analysis, examines how corporate structures need to be restructured in order to integrate the concept of sustainability into a profit-oriented organisation, taking into account organisational islands in the introduction of new technologies. It also analyses which variables are necessary to accommodate different regions. The results show that a basic narrative must first be established in order to operationalize sustainability issues across the supply chain. In addition, it must be ensured that the variables are not weighted differently within the organisation and interpreted by management and that the different variables are taken into account when scaling in the respective regions. The third analysis and the second qualitative empirical approach examines the different interpretations of sustainability in international freight transportation between Germany and Turkey. The results show that cultural differences and knowledge management are very different within an organisation comprising different units. These organisational islands and cultural differences require different approaches to explain and integrate sustainability in order to promote employee acceptance and address regional challenges more effectively. The fourth and conceptual analysis explores how technological connections can support the standardisation of sustainability within a supply chain by integrating key performance indicators for reporting and standardisation of measures. This approach should work across organisations and map various spatial differences with clear metrics that allow management to evaluate along the supply chain.
Angebots-Nutzungs-Interaktionen und Lernprozesse auf dem Lernort Bauernhof
(Universität Vechta, 2026-04-01) Beyer, Lena; Flath, Martina Prof. Dr.; Lindau, Anne-Kathrin Prof. Dr.
Es ist von Bedeutung, Menschen zur Partizipation an der Gestaltung einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung weltweit zu befähigen und das nachhaltige Denken und Handeln im globalen Rahmen zu fördern. Dies kann durch die Begegnung mit außerschulischen Lernorten im Rahmen von handlungsorientierten Lernangeboten gefördert werden. Landwirtschaftliche Betriebe spielen als außerschulische Lernorte eine wichtige Rolle, da sie entscheidend für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung sind. Diese Arbeit legt ihren Fokus auf die Untersuchung von Angebots-Nutzungs-Interaktionen und Lernprozessen auf der kognitiven und emotionalen Ebene und der Handlungsebene auf dem Lernort Bauernhof und auf deren Gestaltung. Zu diesem Zweck wurde eine Fallstudie auf dem Lernort Bauernhof - einem landwirtschaftlichen Haupterwerbsbetrieb mit Milchvieh und Schweinemast - durchgeführt. Das untersuchte Lernangebot besteht aus einer Hoferkundung sowie einer schulischen Vor- und Nachbereitung. Es zielt darauf, dass die
Schüler:innen am Beispiel der Milchproduktion einen Einblick in die Landwirtschaft am Beispiel der Milchproduktion erhalten. In der empirischen Studie wurde untersucht, welche Angebots-Nutzungs-Interaktionen am Lernort ablaufen und wie dabei gelernt wird. Es wurden mehrere Erkundungen von Schüler:innen der fünften und sechsten Klasse begleitet. Kern der empirischen Studie bildet eine
teilnehmende Beobachtung. Diese Methode erlaubt es, die Angebots-Nutzungs-Interaktionen und Verarbeitungsprozesse in actu zu erheben. Ergänzend kam eine schriftliche Befragung zum Einsatz. Die Angebots-Nutzungs-Interaktionen wurden mit einer zusammenfassenden Inhaltsanalyse ausgewertet. Theoriebasiert wurde zudem ein Kategoriensystem entwickelt, um die kognitiven Strukturen, die emotionalen Konzepte und die Handlungskonzepte zu rekonstruieren. Die theoretischen Erkenntnisse bilden den Ausgangspunkt einer Optimierung des untersuchten Lernangebots. Im Sinne des „Design-Based Research“-Ansatzes wird die Analyse von Lernprozessen mit der Gestaltung von Lernangeboten verknüpft. Um die Gestaltung von Lernangeboten zur Gewinnung von Erkenntnissen und die Erkenntnisse für die Gestaltung zu nutzen, wird ein Zyklus von Phasen der Gestaltung, Erhebung, Auswertung und Theoriebildung iterativ durchlaufen. Der Lernort und das Lernangebot wurden anhand von Kriterien charakterisiert, um Optimierungsbedarfe identifizieren und Optimierungsansätze entwickeln zu können und darauf aufbauend das Lernangebot weiterzuentwickeln. Auf Basis der Zyklen konnten typische Sequenzen von Angebots-Nutzungs-Interaktionen, inneren Verarbeitungsprozessen und Lernprozessen beschrieben und der Aufbau von kognitiven Strukturen, emotionalen Konzepten und Handlungskonzepten konnte rekonstruiert werden. Zudem war es möglich, besondere Charakteristika der Angebots-Nutzungs-Interaktionen und Lernprozesse am Lernort Bauernhof herauszuarbeiten. Aufbauend auf den Erkenntnissen wurden Gestaltungselemente und -empfehlungen zur Gestaltung von Lernangeboten entwickelt.
How healthcare professionals overcome distance when collaborating with smart robots
(Universität Vechta, 2025-06-09) Niehaus, Florian; Schank , Christoph; Schiavone, Francesco
Smart robotic systems continue to make their way from industrial contexts to social applications. That shift necessitates further insights into interactions between human teams/team members and smart robots. These interactions have different patterns than interactions in strictly human teams. This study examines surgical teams and their interactions with the endoscopic surgical system (ESS) ‘da Vinci’ as a concrete implementation case. Its focus is the growing distance between team members upon introduction of the ESS robot. We follow a qualitative approach, based on semi-structured expert interviews with nine physicians of diverse fields of expertise and levels of experience with the ESS robot. Our findings show that surgeries with da Vinci bring about certain improvements as well as obstacles. Those can be grouped into physical, visual and coordinative dimensions. The main obstacles seem to be increased physical and mental distance between the ‘concertmaster role’ (i.e., the surgeon) and ‘ensemble roles’ (i.e., the rest of the surgery team). Surgery teams overcome these by applying visual and informational cues. We strengthen existing literature concerning the established physical distance and add the notion of mental distance in ESS-assisted surgeries. We suggest that surgery teams overcome physical and mental distance through visual and informational cues. Furthermore, we find that certain roles within a team get enriched, trimmed, or redesigned. Developers can utilize our findings to improve ESS robots. Medical and general management staff can use our findings for the improvement of team composition and governance, as well as process optimization and coordination, especially in human-robot teams.
Using the arts in social work education for short- term European mobility: evaluating student experiences on an Erasmus+ blended intensive program
(Universität Vechta, 2025-02-16) Frampton, Magnus; Schiller, Ulene; Parker, Jonathan; Hartogh, Theo; Arlinghaus, Gertrud Antonia; Fry, Alex ; Autio, Kirsi; Ndhlovu, G. Nokukhanya
European higher education exchange has been reinvigorated by financial support for shorter student mobility phases, with the new Erasmus+ blended intensive programmes (BIPs) combining virtual and physical mobility. Such formats have obvious advantages in social work education, with compact programmes of workshops, agency visits, and cultural activities promoting personal development in richly intercultural settings. The natural focus on experiential learning during such exchanges suggests pedagogies utilizing creative methods. This paper offers qualitative research on students’ experiences during music and dance-based BIP workshops. Thematic analysis was applied to participants’ comments from a written questionnaire and group interview session. Three thematic clusters were identified: (i) positive experience, play, and learning; (ii) communication, togetherness, trust, and relationships; and (iii) skill acquisition, professional development, and personal growth. Taking these together, and highlighting the first, it is argued that such an approach facilitates possibilities for more emotion/feeling-based learning about oneself, communication processes, and collective relationship-building. More specifically, the BIP format is shown to be temporally and spatially ideal for playing, thereby facilitating students’ willingness to learn by experimenting. The results are discussed with reference to play theorists such as Huizinga, Caillois, and Winnicott, suggesting that theorizing ‘playing’ offers potential for future research on arts-based social work education.
Richtlinie zur Umsetzung von Nachteilsausgleichen bei Studien- und Prüfungsleistungen (Richtlinie Nachteilsausgleich – RiLi NTA) : Erste Änderung, Neubekanntmachung
(Universität Vechta, 2026-03-17) Universität Vechta