Due to their functionality, stored value purses based on smart card technology are prominent candidates for being the dominant medium of exchange for micropayments. However, the overall prospects of these payment systems are yet ambiguous, both from the perspective of practice and monetary...

Historical examples (ISDN, Teletex, telefax, telex) show us that forecasting efforts in the telecommunication sector can go awry - not only by a few percentage points but by large magnitudes. We maintain that with strong network effects it is not possible to forecast the success of...

Der Beitrag identifiziert die wichtigsten Einflussfaktoren der interorganisatorischen Vernetzung auf die Wettbwerbsfähigkeit kleiner und mittlerer Unternehmen. Diese werden in drei interdependenten Problemfeldern strukturiert, welche für den Erfolg von vernetzten kleinen und mittleren...

We investigate how eight concepts derived from the media characteristics of the WWW impact corporate success in E-Business if implemented as features of companies’ web sites. We construct a path model for testing our research hypotheses on three subsets of a representative survey of 1,308...