The nineteenth century saw the advent of news agencies that became well-coordinated global organisations with large networks of correspondents, such as Reuters, Havas, Wolff-Continental and Associated Press. Essential features of these agencies were substantial fixed and sunk set-up costs, high...

The continuous transformation of the industrial society into a service and knowledge society is accompanied by profound change of demand: Customer requests will increasingly focus on individual products, shorter delivery times and appropriate prices. To encounter these challenges under the...

Die Zielsetzung des vorliegenden Projektberichts besteht in der Untersuchung folgenderFragestellungen:• Was ist unter „Netzwerken“ vor dem Hintergrund der sozialen Netzwerkanalysezu verstehen, auf welchen modelltheoretischen Überlegungen beruht die(Unternehmens-)Netzwerkanalyse, welche...

Unternehmen sind heutzutage aufgrund sich stetigwandelnder politischer, ökonomischer, technologischerund sozialer Rahmenbedingungen zunehmenddamit konfrontiert, ihre Geschäftsstrategie denveränderten Verhältnissen anpassen zu müssen.Das in diesen Unternehmen benötigte Wissen,...

The first years of the transformation processes in the Central East European Countries(CEECs) instigated many social scientific analyses about the institutionalchange in the political and economic systems. Later, it became more and more obviousthat these new institutions would need a longer and...

Companies are starting to recognize the need to build a virtual community. They want toachieve a brought range of goals but face different, more demanding requirements whenbuilding a virtual community than do other providers. To give companies a guideline on howto establish their own virtual...