Our paper is based on the qualitative content analysis (Gläser/Laudel 2010) of expert interviews with IT managers in German speaking countries. Drawing also from organisational development processes we have been carrying out, we analyse how the tension between the service function of IT as...

Mit 875 Instituten und über 10.000 Bankstellen bilden die deutschen Volksbanken und Raiffeisenbanken eines der am stärksten verwurzelten lokalen Bankenservicenetze Deutschlands. In deren Zusammenarbeit mit Förderbanken agiert die DZ BANK als Mittler in der analogen wie der digitalen Welt.

The study explores to what extent adaptation to digital change has affected regional employment growth and regional disparities in Germany over the past decade. Using data from administrative sources the analysis finds no evidence for a net decline in employment in connection with technological...