This paper shows how organizational, technical, and environmental factors affected firm decisions to adopt Internet technologies during the early years of the commercialization of the Internet. Organizations that had made prior investments in client/server networks had a higher likelihood of...

The economic liberalization in India was expected to boost the economy, particularly the industrial sector through faster technological development. The Schumpeterian hypothesis, which studies the relationship between market structure variables such as firm size and market concentration and...

This Working Paper brings together two parallel but complementary approaches to the impact of the platform economy on working conditions and social law. The first part of the study shows that the business models of some platforms is a combination of technological disruption and social evasion....

Business Models haben in der Managementpraxis innovativer Existenzgründungen an Bedeutung gewonnen. Während einst Businesspläne das Geschäftskonzept verschriftlichten, dienen gegenwärtig Business Models als zentrales Bezugssystem für Analysen, Bewertungen und Planungen. Sie identifizieren...

Selbstbestimmtes Lernen mit Onlinekursen findet zunehmend mehr Akzeptanz in unserer Gesellschaft. Lernende können mithilfe von Onlinekursen selbst festlegen, was sie wann lernen und Kurse können durch vielfältige Adaptionen an den Lernfortschritt der Nutzer angepasst und individualisiert...

Over the past years, businesses have had to tackle the issues caused by numerous forces from political, technological and societal environment. The changes in the global market and increasing uncertainty require us to focus on disruptive innovations and to investigate this phenomenon from...

In the course of raising external equity, e.g. from venture capitalists, a quantitative valuation is usually required for entrepreneurial ventures. This paper examines the challenges of quantitatively valuing platform technology based entrepreneurial ventures. The distinct characteristics of...

Hybride Geschäftsmodelle sind erfolgreich. Unternehmen, die Bündel aus Industriewaren und Dienstleistungen als Problemlösung anbieten, haben eine hohe Ausstattung mit Erfolgsfaktoren und erzielen eine bessere Umsatz- und Beschäftigungsentwicklung als der Durchschnitt deutscher Unternehmen....

The innovation activities of foreign subsidiaries have been identified as an important source of competitive advantage for multinational corporations. The success of these engagements depends heavily on tapping host country pools of localized expertise. To achieve this foreign subsidiaries have...