Sachstandsanalyse zur Zukunft deutscher Unternehmen in der "Industrie 4.0" (Integration webbasierter Geschäftsmodelle und industrieller Produktion einschliesslich Robotik). Nötig ist eine langfristig angelegte politische Steuerung und digitale Infrastrukturförderung auf nationaler und...

Purpose: Due to the large number of intermediaries in logistics networks there is avariety of possible failures, frictions and waste of time and money among the logisticsprocess chain. With the ability to provide data securely in near real-time, liketrack and tracing data of goods to every...

In this paper, I examine the role of tradition in the German textile industry with regard to how SMEs will manage future technological change. The study is based on a sample of 38 semi-structured in-depth interviews with C-level executives from German textile manufacturing companies and textile...

For many years, struggles over value capture have been taking place between different actors in the logistics sector, creating ever more pressure for workers in traditional activities of logistics. New actors, in the form of digital business-to-business (B2B) platforms, which are proliferating...