The ongoing financial and economic crisis (FEC) that started in 2007 already caused and still causes unprecedented damage for the economy worldwide. Its reasons and consequences illustrate the complex and dynamic environment in which companies act nowadays: Increasingly harmonized markets and...

The research seeks to understand how small medium and micro enterprises in theVhembe District use information and communication technology (ICT) in localeconomic development (LED). The study was conducted against the backgroundof national policy debates about the potential of ICT to promote...

The study aimed at identifying factors limiting the Tietê and Paraná valleys economic growth. Specifically, it analyzed the importance of the capital stocks for economic growth of these and the other counties in São Paulo State. Nine factors were generated by Principal Components Method to...

Between 1999 and 2007, a series of infrastructure improvements were completed at the Port of Brunswick, Georgia, in order to increase cargo capacity at the port. This paper looks at the port for indications of economic development generated through this infrastructure investment. Infrastructure...

Ziel der Diplomarbeit ist es, eine Realtime-Datenversorgung unter Berücksichtigung der besonderen Anforderungen im Bankensektor in eine heterogene Netzwerkumgebung zu integrieren.Diese Arbeit erläutert die Analyse und Spezifizierung der Bedingungen für die Integration im Bankensektor sowie...

Das Thema Bestandsmanagement ist bereits seit Mitte der 80er Jahre bekannt. Es betrifft alle warenwirtschaftlichen Prozesse zur Planung und Steuerung von Beständen. Dabei muss es mit den Schwierigkeiten umgehen können, die aus den stetig wachsenden Marktanforderungen hervorgehen. Dazu gehört...