AbstractIn this paper we compare different approaches and show the need for systematic requirementsengineering for hybrid products beyond disciplinary boundaries. Hybrid products consist ofcombinations of hardware, software and service elements. The purpose of this paper is to report ona...

More and more companies realign their competencies to offer integrated bundlesof products and services with the goal to solve customer problems (Leimeister etal. 2009). The customers are not interested in products or services per se, but theywant their problems to be solved (Böhmann und Krcmar...

Eine möglichst vollständige Erfüllung von Kundenanforderungen und eine Differenzierungvon Wettbewerbern sind zwei Faktoren, die produzierende oder dienstleistungsanbietendeUnternehmen beeinflussen (Böhmann und Krcmar 2007,Leimeister und Glauner 2008). Deswegen ändern viele Unternehmen ihre...

Unternehmen im produzierenden Bereich sehen sich einem erhöhten Preis- und Wettbewerbsdruck gegenüber. Gewinnmargen liegen bei Produktherstellern immer weniger im physischen Produkt als in dazugehörigen Dienstleistungen. Doch auch Dienstleistungsunternehmen stehen in zunehmendem Wettbewerb.[...]

We analyze the frequency and nature by which new firms are acquired by established businesses. Acquisitions are often considered to reflect a technology transfer process and to also constitute one way in which a “symbiosis” between new technology-based firms (NTBFs) and established...

This study investigates the determinants of R&D expenditures in the Swedish pharmaceutical industry from the 1960s to the mid 1990s. Various proxies for the rate of return of R&D (e.g. expected profit, sales and R&D productivity) as well as the availability of internal funding (proxied by past...