We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth offirms. We interpret managers´ answers to survey questions on the extent to which variousaspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring theshadow cost of...

Im Zusammenhang mit der Neufassung des Telekommunikationsgesetzes (TKG) wird derzeit wieder die Bedeutung des Infrastrukturwettbewerbs für die weitere Entwicklung der Wettbewerbsdynamik von vielen Seiten hervorgehoben. Von infrastrukturbasiertem Wettbewerb werden die nachhaltigsten Effekte...

This paper explores the procurement of public buildings in local authorities in the UK under the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and its consequences for small and medium sized enterprises. Following an outline of the development of PFI in the UK, the paper explains the peculiarities of local...

The following work report is the shortened documentation of the German COINCO Future Workshop. The detailed documentation is available in German as IZT ArbeitsBericht 24/2006...

Der Beitrag betrachtet die Vision „Ubiquitous Computing“ aus Sicht des Informationsmanagementsund zeigt auf, welche Potenziale sich hierbei ergeben. Es wird erläutert,welchen Wertbeitrag Entwicklungen des Ubiquitous Computing liefern können und welcheAnforderungen sich daraus für das...

This paper reports on the development and application of an instrument to evaluate the overall IT fitness of medium sized enterprises. The instrument was designed in 1997 as part of an applied research project with the close co-operation of scientists and consultants, as well as various market...

Although, from a technical point of view, business frameworks appear to be apromising means to provide the industry with commercial, mission critical business managementsoftware in a cost effective manner and within a competitive time to market, up to now,only very few framework vendors like IBM...