All projects from the School of Management and Law
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IPSAS implementation Kyrgyz Republic
Supporting the Worldbank with an IPSAS Gap assessment and subsequent implementation of IPSASs in the Kyrgyz Republic.
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Safety benchmarking
How safe do Swiss citizens feels in their municipalities? The Winterthur Institute of Public Management at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences has been conducting extensive research on this issue. The findings provide the participating cities and towns with insight on necessary adaptations for the next ...
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Swiss-Japanese Chamber of Commerce (SJCC)
Dominique Ursprung was appointed Managing Director of the Swiss-Japanese Chamber of Commerce (SJCC) in December 2015. Ursprung led the SJCC office at the ZHAW from 2016 to 2021, closing all six years with a profit. At the time of handing over the mandate, the association's assets were 40% higher than at the time of ...
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Value Grading®
Developing a job evaluation system
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Mission and Strategy of the Promotion of Culture in the Municipality of Thalwil
Since 2005, the Culture Department of the Municipality of Thalwil has been working successfully on the basis of the Conduct and the Funding Concept developed in cooperation with the Center for Cultural Management (ZKM). After about ten years, the municipality of Thalwil would like to evaluate, rework and reorientate ...
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Leading modern arts and cultural organizations. What roles does it take?
The literature on leadership, non-profit, and arts management have discussed many topics in relation to the leading of arts and cultural organizations (ACOs) such as leadership style or leadership structure. The question concerning what today’s leaders in the arts and cultural sector actually do, how they interpret ...
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Scoping Mission Public Sector Accounting Reform Albania
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Estimation of Cyber Risks
Blueprint for estimating cyber risks
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FairCare
FairCare intends to improve the coordination of formal and informal care and to bring together supply and demand for care for the elderly. In Switzerland, there is a large number of private and public service providers offering a wide range of services for the elderly in need. However, it is difficult to find one's ...
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Optimization of a Swiss Rehab Clinic
Optimization of the processes of a Swiss rehab clinic.
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International After Sales Services of Swiss Manufacturing SMEs in the Chinese market
After Sales Services have become an important business for internationally operating Swiss companies. For SMEs the offering of after sales services is a challenge though, specifically in Asian markets. This project aims to develop successful business models in after sales services for Swiss SMEs operating in the ...
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Sustainability Reporting as a means of stakeholder oriented communication
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Discount rate for post-employment benefits according to IPSAS 25
The study focusses on the question of how the discount rate of pension fund obligations should be determined in the context of a negative interest rate environment. Specifically, the report answers the following questions: What does IPSAS say about the applicable interest rate? What scope do the specifications of ...
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Social Power Project
Recent energy and climate policy in Switzerland calls for a step change in how individuals consume energy. This is especially true for the residential sector, which covers 29% of the national energy consumption. The attainment of such long-term social change is, however, difficult: people are seldom aware of the ...
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FRTAP Poland - Public Sector Accounting Study
Subsequent to the launch of the European Union initiative to improve quality and comparability of fiscal reporting across member states, the Financial Reporting Technical Assistance Program (FRTAP) for Poland, which is part of the Swiss contribution to the enlarged European Union, has been set up. ZHAW Institute of ...
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UNCTAD Strategic Foresight
This report identifies, analyses and presents for discussion key issues concerning the role of strategic foresight for policymakers, particularly in developing countries. Chapter II provides an introduction to strategic foresight and its use around the world. Chapter III presents key trends related to science, ...
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Filmfestival audience survey - Audience Development
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Development of an IT supported assessment tool and a corresponding introduction manual for the relevant Facility Management process applications in hospitals on the basis of an adaptive reference model
The introduction of the diagnosis-related groups/Swiss DRG causes amongst other things a greater demand for transparency, including in non-medical support services [FM] in hospitals. In order to meet this, it is necessary to have a systematic way of measuring and comparing services in order to come up with specific ...
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Operational risks of pension funds
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Epidemiology and costs of ovarian cancer in Switzerland
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Evaluation of Public Financial Management Reforms in Peru
Supporting the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in evaluating the Public Financial Management reforms in Peru. The focus was on the integration of the various systems (Budgeting, Accounting, Internal/External Control, GFS), as well as on the situation within budgeting, accounting and internal control. ...
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Study on the accrual of the withholding tax in the State of Zurich
The purpose of this study is to work on and answer three questions related to a change of system to accrual accounting, namely the accounting effects, the impact on the payment behavior of the taxpayers and any impact on the state and municipal accounts of the State of Zurich and the State of Zurich Municipalities ...
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Incidence and costs of hypoglycemia in insulin-treated diabetes mellitus in Switzerland
Insulin is essential to the treatment of diabetes but may lead to hypoglycemic events. These events do not only represent a considerable burden for diabetes patients, but also lead to substantial economic costs. The aim of this study was to assess the incidence of severe and non-severe hypoglycemic episodes in ...
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Implementing state-of-the-art didactics / methods and research tools in academic teaching
e-Tutor is an open educational resource created for the professional development of faculty members on teaching online. Originally developed by Ankara University’s Distance Learning Centre in Turkey, e-Tutor was adapted to English, Russian and Ukrainian under the framework of a project funded by the Swiss National ...
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NRP71: Promoting energy-sufficient behaviour in cities
Cities will be key agents of change in the upcoming energy turnaround in Switzerland. They promote technical efficiency measures and behavioural change for saving energy, both as role models and by addressing consumers. A crucial question is how cities can best motivate private consumers to change their behaviour, ...