New forms of work organisation and new production systems that mark a decisive break with the Taylorian principles of bureaucracy and division of labour are the foundation on which the competitiveness of modern firms is built. ... The fact that new production methods are not diffused more widely...

Abstract: Research carried out in different European and national projects shows thatthere is not that much e-Learning applied in small and medium sized companies(SME’s) and that most of the few activities undertaken are of rather poor quality.One possible solution is to involve SME’s into...

In this paper, we examine the training situation of EuropeanSmall and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), especially inregard to e-learning. While e-learning has been widelypresented as the solution for the training needs of SMEs,analyses of the real situation show quite another picture.Some of these...

This paper presents some European initiatives developed within the Socrates Programme in order to support people with disabilities to use the new technologies. The disadvantages of the existing software designed for people with visual deficiencies together with some criteria that have to be...

This paper presents some aspects for the development of eLearning business models for SMEs. eLearning trough its flexibility andfacility is to be seen as a chance for SMEs to manage their knowledge and to improve their business

This document gives an overview of the utilisation of the ‘balanced scorecard’ as performancemeasurement tool for cluster management. Furthermore, it subsumes the results of the testcarried out in cooperation with the IT Cluster in Moravia-Silesian region

Since around a decade, the automobile industry is undergoing a dramatic turnaround. New strategies for marketing and producing are considered as trigger pulses for the emergence of different inter-firm relations between customers and suppliers in the car industry’s production complex. The...

Die Integration des europäischen Marktes hat an Fahrt gewonnen und eröffnet auch kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen bessere Bedingungen für Auslandsgeschäfte. Grenzüberschreitende Koope-rationen erfordern jedoch Vertrautheit mit den Märkten und Kundenbedürfnissen, Regulierungen und...

After 16 years of conservative-liberal rule, a social democratic-green coalition cameinto office in 1998. Though having declared the successful combating of unemploymentthe principal yardstick for his government’s performance, Chancellor Schröder actuallystood back until mid-2001, expecting...

This study focuses on productive activities that are legal in principlebut which are not declared to the authorities. In the debate inGermany various terms are used to describe these activities, themost common being Schwarzarbeit (clandestine employment),Schattenwirtschaft (underground economy)...