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...

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...

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...

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...

Although there is growing evidence on the role of agglomeration economies in the formation and growth of firms, both the concepts of agglomeration economies and entrepreneurship tend to be ambiguously defined and measured in the literature. In this study, we aim to improve the conceptualisations...

We analyse pricing, e¤ort and tipping decisions in the online service GoogleAnswers. While users set a price for the answer to their question ex ante, theycan additionally give a tip to the researcher ex post.In line with the related experimental literature we …nd evidence that tippingis...

mode of production exist that is based on the contributions of many software programmerswithout providing any direct monetary incentives for them? And how can these programmerscoordinate their actions without relying on either the guidance of the price mechanism or thedirection through a...

Historical examples (ISDN, Teletex, telefax, telex) show us that forecasting efforts in the telecommunication sector can go awry - not only by a few percentage points but by large magnitudes. We maintain that with strong network effects it is not possible to forecast the success of...

In spite of Microsoft´s quasi monopoly position in the market for operating systems Linux has succeeded to become a serious competitor of Microsoft Windows. From an economic standpoint this fact raises some puzzles.(...)