In a project financed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group from Innsbruck investigated how companies involve employees and also outsiders in their strategy development and what effects such involvement has. It speeds things up. Continue reading “Businesses benefit from more democracy”
Autobiographies as a source are often viewed with scepticism in theatre research. A project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF has now demonstrated their value. Such self-portrayals dating from before 1945 provide new perspectives on German-speaking theatre. Continue reading “Self-portrayal as a source of knowledge”
Baroque furniture in churches and monasteries provides important information on features of manufacture and design. With the support of the FWF, an art historian is drawing up a comprehensive catalogue. This will also provide a basis for assigning secular furniture to a specific period and region. Continue reading “Making furniture for church and nobility”
The construction history of St. Stephen’s Cathedral stretching over 300 years has been fleshed out with additional important elements. With the support of the FWF, open questions about issues such as financing or religious objects that have vanished can now be answered thanks to a systematic evaluation of several thousand documentary sources. Continue reading “St. Stephen’s Cathedral: new facets of its architectural history”
The historian and slavist Machteld Venken examines nationalising efforts during the interwar and post-war years in Polish-German and Belgian-German border regions. The focus of study is on children. Continue reading “Children as model citizens”
With support from the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research team from Innsbruck conducted a field study on the question of whether customers can protect themselves against being defrauded by sellers in a credence goods market by seeking online information. The market for computer repairs served as an example. Continue reading “Misinformed consumers pay more”
In a project financed by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, a research group from Klagenfurt examined what budgetary policy measures a small eurozone country might take to cushion the consequences of a crisis. Slovenia served as an example. Continue reading “Research and education alleviate economic crises”
Many Europeans have a mobile lifestyle involving commuting between countries. A multinational research project supported by the Austrian Science Fund FWF showed that this entails major obstacles in terms of social security arising from complex underlying causes. Continue reading “Unequal access to social security”
There are 60,000 texts stored in the basement of the Vienna Hofburg palace – on papyrus and clay fragments. A large part of them hold accounts of the early days of Islam in Egypt. For two decades, the papyrologist Federico Morelli has been vetting these historical testimonials, gaining insights into processes that contradict accepted historical […] Continue reading “A gigantic jigsaw puzzle”
For years, a team of researchers from Vienna has been working on the early works of Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) in a project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Generating a wealth of material that prompts new questions, this large publication project has funnelled the work of the Austrian writer into the digital age. Continue reading “At Arthur Schnitzler’s desk”