Die vorliegende Arbeit befasst sich mit Innovationsdiffusionsmodellen und deren Anwendung in der Marketingpraxis. Sie hat zwei Ziele: Einen Überblick über existierende Innovationsmodelle zu schaffen und ein neues besseres Modell zu entwickeln. Es wird ein neuer Klassifizierungsansatz...

Mit der Arbeit wird der Versuch unternommen, den Zusammenhängen von Biographie- und individuellen Lernprozessen nachzugehen. Dies erfolgt am Beispiel von acht ostdeutschen ExistenzgründerInnen, die sich nach der Wende in den neuen Bundesländern im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel selbständig gemacht...

The health industry has acquired a reputation as lagging in the use of information technology (IT). Therefore, this study has been undertaken to assess state health's use of IT and then to assess the causal factors of the differing usage rate, if any. The state health industry was compared to...

Interpretive flexibility is a term used to describe the diverse perspectives on what a technology is and can or can not do during the process of technological development. In this article, we look at how interpretive flexibility manifests through the diverse perceptions of stakeholders involved...

RFID and 3D body scanning were identified as enabling technologies for consumer-centric mass customization in apparel retail. The objective of this research was to investigate consumer knowledge, interest and concerns towards the applications of RFID and 3D body scanning in apparel retail....

This paper empirically assesses the patterns of adoption and utilization of seven CIT clusters in supporting task-oriented collaboration in organizations in Australia and New Zealand. Analysis of data collected from one hundred and fifty-six organizations indicates that these patterns vary...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in International Journal of Information Management, published by and copyright Elsevier.

Organizational learning through experience has been found to be associated with enhanced firm performance. Organizational experiments are a method of experiential learning that enable organizations to learn from experience and gain context-specific knowledge of how and why to implement new...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2010. Major: Rhetoric and Scientific and Technical Communication. Advisor: Bernadette Longo. 1 computer file (PDF); xiii, 258, appendices A-O.

Web portals, online databases and E-business tools will play an increasingly important role in the building and construction industry for implementing and formalising sustainable design practices. This paper first offers a framework to identify and address a gap in the research literature on the...