This book discusses the ways in which characteristics of innovative firms and innovative talents with core competence in Japanese, Korean, German, and American contexts are developed and nurtured, and compares innovative firms with a long history of business operations from these four countries....

This volume presents the revised and peer reviewed contributions of the ‘ERP Future 2015’ conference held in Munich, Germany on November 16-17, 2015. The ERP Future 2015 Research conference is a scientific platform for research on enterprise information systems in general and specifically on...

A Comparative History of Commerce and Industry, Volume I offers a subjective review of how the cultural, social and economic institutions of commerce and industry evolved in industrialized nations to produce the institution we now know as business enterprise

This book examines the linkage between central bank structure, central bank autonomy-with respect to setting its monetary policy goals, choosing its policy mechanisms, legal independence, and financial independence-and monetary policy, both in select benchmark countries and at a broader...

The book examines innovation in environment-friendly technologies in the automobile industry. The focus of the book are Germany (a technology leader in the global automobile industry), on the one hand, and India, China and Brazil (technologically proficient emerging technology leaders) on the...

This book presents contributions by leading academics and practitioners from central banks to shed light on the function and impact of cash in Asian countries. It explores the impact of cash on society, the role of cash in monetary policy, and the future of cash in various monetary systems,...

Offene Geschäftsmodelle zeichnen sich unter anderem dadurch aus, dass Kooperationen mit externen Akteuren in der Wertschöpfung und Ertragsgenerierung eines Unternehmens eine zentrale Rolle spielen. Anne-Kathrin Müller stellt den Zusammenhang zwischen offenen Geschäftsmodellen sowie...

Das duale Aus- und Weiterbildungsprinzip stellt international ein Alleinstellungsmerkmal für deutsche Berufsbildungsdienstleister dar und wird weltweit nachgefragt. Romy Hilbig untersucht Geschäftsmodellinnovationen von Berufsbildungsdienstleistern aus dem technischen und kaufmännischen...

Technological innovation is fundamental to firm performance and economic prosperity. The aim of this book is to contribute to an in-depth understanding of collective innovation processes by analyzing publicly funded R&D cooperation and innovation networks in the German laser industry. Standing...

Der demografischen Wandel eröffnet vielfältige Einsatzbereiche und einen wachsenden Markt für neuartige Verknüpfungen von Dienstleistungsangeboten und innovativen Technologien im Healthcare-Bereich. Für die Gestaltung derartiger technologiegestützter Dienstleistungsinnovationen fehlen...