This Management Report summarizes the main descriptive results of a study onresearcher’s acceptance of Open Access publishing. The study was conducted in2006 by the Ludwig-Maximilans-University Munich, Germany, in cooperation withthe University of Arkansas at Little Rock. The main focus is...

In the 19th and the 20th century, industrialization has lead to structural changes in the manufacturing industry. Among other engineering inventions, steam, tool making and transport machines were the main drivers of this development. By automating tasks, increasing standardization of processes...

The media industry is one of the industries which have recently undergone most dramaticchanges in the production and distribution of their products. New technologies, based on theparadigm of digitization, enable a more modularized production of media content and its individualizationfor specific...

Immaterial information products (“content”) can be represented in digital form, which is anadvantage but also a source of problems. It is fundamentally impossible to prevent copyingof digital data, which is just a stream of bits – ones and zeros: Once you can read it, you cancopy it. With...