In this article we provide a seminal academic investigation of mo-bile telephony consumers' perception of the recently introduced costcap tari in comparison to corresponding pay-per-use and atrate call-ing plans. Previous studies have identied several psychological eectsthrough which consumers...

This paper will present results of the surveys and new trends which were relatedto e-governmental issues. A common understanding of e-government isusage of ICT means in the public sector for delivering information and servicesto its customers and enterprises. The objective is improvement of...

Multimediale Informations- und Führungssysteme inKultur und Freizeit spielen eine zunehmend wichtige Rolle für Besuchervon Sehenswürdigkeiten und Ausstellungen. Derartige Systeme können alsWeiterentwicklung von herkömmlichen Audioguides ihre Nutzer bei derOrientierung im Ausstellungsraum...

Innovation activities in high tech industries provide considerable challenges for technology and innovation management. In particular, firms frequently face significant technological challenges since these industries has a long history of radical innovations which are taking place through...

In response to global market forces such as deregulation and globalization, technological change and digital convergence, the telecommunications in the 1990s witnessed an enormous worldwide round of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). Given both M&A and Innovation a major means of today’s competitive...

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, priorstudies ignored a distinction between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technologyand continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental improvements andmodifications made upon the existing...

We model decisions with respect to formality or informality for entrepreneurs in a newindustry for a developing economy. We show that informality allows a leader to explore,without significant sunk costs, the potential profitability of the industry; that is, informality maybe a stepping stone,...

Innovation activities in high technology industries provide considerable challenges fortechnology and innovation management. In particular, since these industries have a long historyof radical innovations taking place through distinct industry cycles of higher and lower demand,firms frequently...

Um dem steigenden Wettbewerbsdruck standhalten und den veränderten Kundenwünschennachkommen zu können, wandeln sich viele Industrieunternehmen vom klassischen Produktzumumfassenden Lösungsanbieter, d.h. zum Erzeuger und Vermarkter so genannter hybriderProdukte.In diesem Arbeitspapier stehen...

We analyze the effect of industry, region and time on new-business survival rates by means of a multi-dimensional approach. The data relate to West German districts in the 1983-2000 period. The survival chances of start-ups tend to be relatively low in industries characterized by a high minimum...