Digitisation processes have – often through disruptive innovations – injected additional competition in many markets, be it online retailing, new transport platforms, electronic banking and brokerage, online travel agencies or new media formats. At the same time, a number of companies,...

"Daten sind das Öl des 21. Jahrhunderts" - dieser im Kontext der Datenökonomie häufig zitierte Satz weist auf die enorme Kapitalverschiebung hin, die innerhalb der letzten Jahre stattgefunden hat: Internet-Giganten wie Amazon, Google, Alibaba, Apple, Microsoft, Tencent und Facebook sind...

This note contains an empirical analysis of the decision of German‐speaking business scholars to boycott and opt out of the best known research ranking of business scholars, initiated and published by Germany's largest business daily, Handelsblatt. Our analysis indicates that scientists who...