Die vorliegende Studie untersucht anhand von drei Fallbeispielen, wie Buchverlage mit den aktuellen Entwicklungen im E-Book-Bereich umgehen. Der Analyserahmen wurde innerhalb eines Lehrforschungsprojektes entwickelt. Zur Erfassung der betrieblichen Situation wurden in den drei Verlagen, die sich...

Serendipity plays an important role in science and technology development. This article investigates serendipity as a potential mechanism of change in management areas such as technology management, strategy and organization. The mechanism will be described and conditions that support or hinder...

To understand organizational, strategic and technological change it would be helpful to resort to mechanisms that are responsible for triggering and directing deep-seated social change processes. Propositions about mechanisms have an interesting epistemological status, they take an intermediate...

Books Reviewed: Oswald Jones, Steve Conway and Fred Steward, eds., Social Interaction and Organizational Change: Aston Perspectives on Innovation Networks, Olaf Fisscher, author I. Nonaka and T. Nishiguchi, eds., Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge...

Research institutes mainly engage in product innovation for the purpose of applying, testing and usually also transferring knowledge or technology. Managing product innovation processes in this type of environment leads to various problems with the establishment and managent of alliances and...

Books Reviewed: Oswald ones, Steve Conway and Fred Steward, Social Interaction and Organizational Change. Aston Perspectives on Innovation Networks I. Nonaka and T. Nishiguchi, Knowledge Emergence: Social, Technical and Evolutionary Dimensions of Knowledge Creation Ronald Mascitelli, Building a...