Collected Writings of the Orpheus Institute 6"We have developed a tremendous amount of what might best be referred to as journalistic knowledge concerning the ways that musicians of earlier periods thought about musical structures. Now that we have that knowledge, what might we do with it?" Joel LesterThe often complex connections and intersections between modal and tonal idioms and contrapuntal and harmonic organization during the transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque era are considered from various perspectives in Towards Tonality. Prominent musicians and scholars from a wide range of fields testify here to their personal understanding of this significant time of shifts in musical taste. This collection of essays is based on lectures presented during the conference "Historical Theory, Performance, and Meaning in Baroque Music," organized by the International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory in Ghent, Belgium."

Markus Janz identifiziert grundlegende Dimensionen der Beschaffungsfuhrung und zeigt, in welchen Situationen die partnerschaftliche Ausgestaltung von Lieferantenbeziehungen sinnvoll ist. Er stellt eine Methode vor, die es ermoglicht, diesen aus einem kausalanalytischen Erfolgsfaktorenmodell ermittelten Zusammenhang in ein fur die Praxis nutzbares Entscheidungsunterstutzungsinstrument in Form eines Portfoliomodells zu uberfuhren."