Routine action', a form to take action, is widely accepted in the economic field, because of its resource saving effect which contributes to average cost degression. However, from an entropic point of view, each form of acting requires decision making in regard to consumption of resources and...

Within firms diverse fields of action are regarding the transformation of material and immaterial resources. The dimension of choices is being determined by the basic laws of thermodynamics. The entropic relevance of action within a firm has been considered by the paper. From a social system...

Within firms diverse fields of action are regarding the transformation of material and immaterial resources. The dimension of choices is being determined by the basic laws of thermodynamics. The entropic relevance of action within a firm has been considered by the paper. From a social system...

Recent studies of outlaw communities provide qualitative evidence of their existence and the organisation of the underlying innovation processes. We provide descriptive results from a large scale survey of two online outlaw communities focussing on Microsoft's XBox. In line with previous...

‘Routine action’, a form to take action, is widely accepted in the economic field, because of its resource saving effect which contributes to average cost degression. However, from an entropic point of view, each form of acting requires decision making in regard to consumption of resources...

Demographischer Wandel, Innovationen innerhalb der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie und die Digitalisierung ändern das Kaufverhalten der Konsumenten zunehmend. Innerhalb der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte ist der E-Commerce in Deutschland ständig gewachsen und hat sich die Struktur des...

Kaizen is the Japanese concept of management based on a philosophy of eternal change, which is to keep a continuous improvement process going. This article shows, that the Kaizen philosophy provides an appropriate strategic basis for establishing a continuous innovation process in medium-sized...

The well-known qualitative methods for carrying out demand forecasts can also be applied well to medium-sized companies. In particular, it is shown that the expert survey and the sales estimate are very easy to use methods to generate demand forecasts or to ensure quality. Customer surveys also...

Das Institut für Organisationsökonomik (IO) an der Universität Münster wurde am 1. Oktober 2023 dreizehn Jahre alt. Dieser 13. Jahresbericht informiert über das dreizehnte Jahr, d. h. über das Wintersemester 2022/23 und das Sommersemester 2023. Wie in den Vorjahren werden das Institut und...

Der Mittelstand ist derzeit mit vielfältigen Krisen konfrontiert. Eine frühe Erkennung relevanter Herausforderungen und Chancen ermöglicht es den mittelständischen Unternehmen und der Wirtschaftspolitik, sich darauf vorzubereiten und die geeigneten Rahmenbedingungen zu setzen. Gegenwärtig...