As one of the largest insurance and reinsurance companies in the world, the Gerling Group - Germany - has traditionally been an innovator in the strategic use of state-of-the-art information and communication technologies to enhance customer services. This case study illustrates Gerling's...

This case describes the strategic challenges faced by CompuNet AG in 1995. After a phenomenal expansion from being a small IBM reseller to becoming a leading multi-vendor systems integrator in Germany, the company suffered, in the 1994/95 fiscal year, a dramatic decrease in profits. After a...

In the IS field there has been an ongoing tradition to study the publication output of the community in order to evaluate the current and potential situation of IS research. In this work, we follow a different strategy and study what IS research claims to be. We look at those so-called 'espoused...

Community on the Watch: Making Sense of IS Research through the Lens of Espoused Theories of IS In the IS field there has been an ongoing tradition to study the publication output of the community in order to evaluate the current and potential situation of IS research. In this work, we follow a...

Managers increasingly face netsourcing decisions of whether and how to outsource selected software applications over the Internet. This paper illustrates the development of a netsourcing decision support system (DSS) that provides support for the first netsourcing decision of whether to...

With the growing importance of E-Commerce, commercially <p> available E-Commerce servers are increasingly gaining ground. Our <p> research investigates two of the most commonly implemented <p> products, IBM's Net.Commerce (NC) and Microsoft's Site Server <p> Commerce (SSC) Edition. After a short description...</p></p></p></p>