The paper systematises the previous research on trust in virtual teams, by examining how trust and other elements of social capital can be created in virtual teams and where the value created by social capital resides. The study is guided by three main questions: What value can social capital...

Purpose: Against the backdrop of the increased prevalence of telework practices as a result of Covid-19, the purpose of the present article is to address the conceptual confusion, overlap and ambiguity characterising much of the published literature in this domain through the development of an...

The transformative power of organizational and service innovations on value or supply chains has been the object of several studies. The question identified in this paper is how disruptive trends in the videogames world can have spill-over effects in the broader realm of e-services. Section 1...

Netzwerke weisen meist eine komplexe Arbeitsteilung auf, die den einzelnen Akteuren konkrete Aufgaben, Rechte und Verpflichtungen zuweist. Zusätzlich zeichnen sich Netzwerke häufig durch mehrstufige Strukturen aus, die dem Tatbestand Rechnung tragen, dass Aufgaben zentral oder dezentral...

In the German automobile industry the vertical integration, as an indicator of value added, is on average low. Beyond the argument of relative high labour costs for manufacturing, several specific reasons for the level of vertical integration, linked to the flexibility of business administration...