Ausgehend von einer Diskussion der Begriffe Wissensmanagement und Wissen wird im Beitrag der Stand des Einsatzes von Informationstechnologie für das Wissensmanagement diskutiert. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Ansätze, die eine (semi-)formale Darstellung von Wissen ermöglichen und damit die Grundlage...

Product development is a knowledge intensive process. It is widely recognized as a mechanism that produces firms to learn, to enter new technological areas, and to deal more effectively with market uncertainty. Since technology management has become ingrained within the field of knowledge...

According to the information revolution, the most important characteristic of knowledge is to be sought in this equation: knowledge = information. This involves reducing different facets of knowledge to quantitative information which leads to knowledge legitimacy crisis. In addition, having a...

Latin America, in spite of some great strides, lags economically advanced nations in its research on information technology. This special issue of Information Technology for Development on “IT Advances in Latin America” provides insights into the practices and applications of IT, points to...

This article explores the role of information Technology in women empowerment. India has become a dominant player in the information technology industry globally. In the past decades industrial scenario in India was dominated by agriculture and manufacturing sector growth. But in the last 10...

We investigated ambidexterity, defined as the capacity to simultaneously achieve exploration and exploitation activities at a product development level. Building on the knowledge management literature, we argue that information technology - defined by a combination of the convergent and...

The purpose of this exploratory study is to take the first step towards theorizing the role of ICTs in social movements. This study is guided by the following research question: How do social movements relate to opportunity structures through ICTs? Opportunity structures are signals identified...

Die vorliegende Studie wurde im ifo Arbeitsbereich Branchenforschung erstellt und im Frühjahr 2005 abgeschlossen. Auftraggeber war das Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Arbeit. Gegenstand der Studie sind der Stand und die Perspektiven der „New Economy“ in Deutschland sowie ein Vergleich...

In the EU, most large firms use e-business applications, such as enterprise resource planning and online procurement. Based on e-business watch data for EU-4 (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom) we find that the actual use of enterprise resource planning and online procurement is...