Deutsche Universit?ten stehen heute genauso wie Unternehmen vor der Frage, wen sie zum Studium zulassen bzw. als Mitarbeiter ausw?hlen. Die Kriterien, die f?r diese Auswahlentscheidungen herangezogen werden, gleichen sich zwischen Universit?ten und Unternehmen zunehmend an. Meist ber?cksichtigen...

The dissertation has been written within the post graduate program of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on “Business Aspects of Loosely Coupled Systems and Electronic Business”. This program focuses on research related to the diffusion of innovations in the digital age. Accordingly, the...

The consumer perception of the relation between food and health is increased his importance. This situation generates business opportunities, when his effect is positive (for example "functional food"), or limitations or reductions in the markets (for example "food with risk perception"). This...

Prepared for a Conference on Transnational Networks in Princeton in 2001, this paper explored the comparative dynamics of the trans-local networks which South Asian migrants from Mirpur (Pakistan), Jullundur (India) and Sylhet (Bangladesh) have constructed around themselves.

In this thesis we consider how user-generated content that is assembled by different popular Web portals can be exploited for Multilingual Information Retrieval. We define the knowledge that can be derived from such portals as Social Semantics. We present to approaches, Cross-lingual Explicit...

Purpose: This study sets out to employ a cross-cultural perspective to explore alternative explanations in the development of the online repurchase intentions model. Design/methodology/approach: The proposed constructs of alternative models deal with key online consumer behavior variables such...