Die internationale Beachtung der Forschungsergebnisse in der Wirtschaftsinformatik hat in den letzten Jahren an Bedeutung gewonnen. Dabei wird dem kritischen Diskurs ein wachsender Stellenwert eingeräumt. Hier gilt es, den wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchs in der Konzeption und Durchführung der...

Lack of information is a severe barrier to effective participation by developing countries in the international trade regime. Information systems in international regimes are the sets of institutions, actors and procedures involved in collecting, analysing and disseminating information about...

On a very abstract level, an information system consists of a set of system elements which communicate with each other. Communication is an unproductive operation, so the time needed to communicate data should be kept as short as possible and, to put it in monetary terms, the opportunity costs...

Der Einsatz integrierter, datenbankgestützter Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien (IuK) wird zu deutlichen Veränderungen in den Waren-, Informations- und Finanzbeziehungen zwischen Unternehmen und ihren Kunden oder Lieferanten führen. Mittelfristig wird die Anwendung integrierter...

The alignment of sales territories represents a major problem in salesforce management with considerable impact on profit. The common approach to this alignment is the balancing approach, which establishes territories balanced as well as possible with respect to one or more attributes such as...

A Forecast Support System (FSS), which generates sales forecasts, is a sophisticated business analytical tool that can help to improve targeted business decisions. Many companies use such a tool, although at the same time they may allow managers to quote their own forecasts. These sales...

Based on the approach advanced by Elliott et al. (Rev. Ec. Studies. 72, 1197-1125), we found that the loss function of a sample of oil price forecasters is asymmetric in the forecast error. Our findings indicate that the loss oil price forecasters incurred when their forecasts exceeded the price...