Beides, Spiel und Arbeit, Technik und das Ästhetische erscheinen auch heute noch nur schwer miteinander vereinbar, selbst wenn neuere Vorstellungen von einer ludischen Gesellschaft hier deutlich Grenzüberschreitungen und Tätigkeitsverwischungen bereits bemerken und diese verstärkt...

Over the past two decades Wales has been quite successful in developing industrial clusters inautomotive components and electronics, but is still relatively weak in areas thought important tolong term manufacturing competitiveness, notably Research and Development (R&D). Thispaper examines...

Information technology (IT) is enabling large companies and particularly banking firms tocreate new forms of organizations. Both globalization of markets and stronger regulationthroughout the world puts pressure on banking firms to either spend more money coordinatingbusiness activities in the...

A new concept of mixing distributed real and virtual worlds through a unified human-machine interface will be introduced, some first realizations and a focus on resulting challenges of control-theory and modeling are presented...

Risk/return management has not only evolved as one of the key success factors for enterprisesespecially in the financial services industry, but is in the times of the economic crisis initiated by thefinancial markets crucial for the survival of a company. It demands powerful and at the same...

With this study we are the first to systematically compare todays two major counterparts as a source of accounting and financial data for researchers: Compustat North America by Standard & Poors and Worldscope by Thomson Financial. This investigation is conducted for U.S. and partly Canadian...

This paper investigates industry classification systems. During the last 50 yearsthere has been a considerable discussion of problems regarding the classification of economic data by industries. From my perspective, the central point of each classification is to determine a balance between...

Laut einer aktuellen Studie der UnternehmensberatungExagon Consultingsind die meisten Mitarbeiter unzufriedenmit der Unterstützung bei Hard- und Software-Problemen. Zu lange Reaktions- undzu hohe Ausfallzeiten spielen ebenso eineRolle wie Verständigungsprobleme und unklareZuständigkeiten. Ein...

Mit dem Forschungsprototyp cofis.net wird das Ziel verfolgt, Anregungen in die Diskussion um eine integrative Verbindung zwischen Bank und Kunde einzubringen. Dabei sollen Wege der Distribution von Finanzdienstleistungen dargestellt werden. Im Rahmen der Weiterentwicklung des...