This paper describes open research questions related to the competition and market structure of financial exchanges and argues that only a combination of industrial organization and finance can satisfactorily attack these questions. Two examples are discussed to illustrate how the combination of...

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...

In this contribution, we study companies engaging in B2C-E-Commerce and their ability to manage the relationship with their customers. We refer to this as companies’ ECCRM-capability and examine its determinants and the impact that all of these factors have on corporate success in E-Business....

Seit den wegbereitenden Arbeiten von Pine (1991, 1993) haben sich zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Beiträge mit den theoretischen Aspekten der Mass Customization befasst. Nach vielen positiv gestimmten Arbeiten hinsichtlich des Nutzens und der Erfolgsaussichten der Mass Customization werden diese...