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The EU must embrace international cooperation and collaboration in technology-driven industries to ensure competitiveness and global relevance, while also considering the drawbacks of isolationist policies. The EU's commitment to open markets and global cooperation has historically been its...
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The Belgian pharmaceutical sector has been accorded a leading role in the attainment of the R&D investment targets which the EU Member States set themselves as part of the Lisbon strategy. To gain a better insight into that sector’s research activities, the NBB conducted an ad hoc survey in...
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Software is a good with very special economic characteristics. Taking a general definition of software as its starting … and cost structure, the demand, the contestability of software-markets, and the allocative efficiency. In this context it … appears to be reasonable to subsume the various characteristics under the following generic terms: software as a means of data …
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Der Beitrag behandelt die erst kürzlich in der Zeitschrift Die Betriebswirtschaft durch Haller (2004) aufgeworfene Frage, ob und inwiefern ein funktionierendes Qualitätsmanagement Einfluss auf die Wirtschaftlichkeit von deutschen Unternehmen nimmt. Konkret wird im Rahmen einer empirischen...
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Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit Qualitätsmanagementsystemen in Nonprofit-Organisationen. Sie stellt dabei das Spannungsfeld verschiedener Akteursinteressen innerhalb von Non-profit-Organisationen in den Vordergrund. Dies erfolgt anhand des mikropolitischen Ansatzes, der allen...
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Um wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben, streben viele Organisationen eine kontinuierliche Verbesserung mithilfe eines Qualitätsmanagementsystems an. Die Zertifizierung spielt dabei zunehmend eine größere Rolle. Für den Bereich der Qualitätsmanagementsysteme besteht die Möglichkeit, sich nach der...
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In this study we compared seven commercial Software packages for project management. Employing multi attribute value … theory, the comparison is based on a sound decision-theoretic framework. Additionally, we included a comprehensive assessment …
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This paper analyzes the effects of tying arrangements on market competition and social welfare in two-sided markets when economic agents can engage in multi-homing; that is, they can participate in multiple platforms in order to reap maximal network benefits. The model shows that tying induces...
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A review of the basic theory of optimal open-source software contributions points to three key factors affecting supply … large-scale software developer surveys are inadequate for measuring the relative importance of these three factors. Moreover …
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