In this paper we analyze the success of startups in Germany by looking at the social network structure of their founders on the German-language business-networking site XING. We address two related research questions. First we examine university-wide networks, constructing alumni networks of 12...

We investigate how eight concepts derived from the media characteristics of the WWW impact corporate success in E-Business if implemented as features of companies’ web sites. We construct a path model for testing our research hypotheses on three subsets of a representative survey of 1,308...

In this contribution, we study companies engaging in B2C-E-Commerce and their ability to manage the relationship with their customers. We refer to this as companies’ ECCRM-capability and examine its determinants and the impact that all of these factors have on corporate success in E-Business....