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...

This article illustrates the commonly overlooked sample selection probleminherent in using rural classification methods that change over time due to populationchanges. Since fast growing rural areas grow out of their rural status, using recent ruraldefinitions excludes the most successful places...

Considerable controversy exists regarding the costs and benefits of growth in the meatpacking and processing industry in the rural Midwest. This study uses proprietary datafrom the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Longitudinal Database (LDB) to investigate theeffects of this industry on social and...

The paper builds on a method proposed by Geary and Stark (2002) for estimating regional incomes in Victorian Britain. This is modified by using tax data to allocate non-wage income across regions. The results suggest that the coefficient of variation of regional GDP per head was rising rapidly...

Standortvergleiche sind seit Jahren in Mode und Aus­druck der generellen Tendenz einer zunehmend evidenzbasierten Ent­schei­dungsfindung. Der vorliegende Beitrag dokumentiert das Vorgehen und die Ergebnisse des Benchmarking der Hansestadt Stralsund. Hierzu wurde ein Vergleich mit den drei...

Der Beitrag behandelt die wissenschaftlichen Diskussion um die Beeinflussung regionaler Innovationsbedingungen, die mit dem von Hans-Jürgen Ewers und Ko-autoren entworfenen Konzept der innovationsorientierten Regionalpolitik ange-stoßen wurde. Zwar haben sich viele der dem Konzept der...

We investigate to what extent convergence in production levels per worker has beenachieved in Germany since unification. To this end, we model the distributionof GDP per employee across German districts using two-component normal mixtures.While in the first year after unification, the two...

In this qualitative sociological and quantitative economic policy paper, we start out from the assumption of a very recent European Commission Background paper on the "Efficiency and effectiveness of social spending", which says the effectiveness of social spending can be defined by the degree...