Web 2.0, also referred to as social media, is the use of the World Wide Web to increase creativity, information sharing, and collaboration among users. Social media is driving the rethinking of many of the principles of economics. The use of social media within supply chains is lagging behind...

Is the overall project handling of virtual, international projects correlated with specific communicative capabilities of the project leader supported by selected elements of Social Software? Is the overall project transparency of virtual, international projects correlated with the usage of...

Der Beitrag zeigt auf, wie sich die Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit des Statistischen Bundesamtes in den letzten Jahrzehnten von der reinen Verbreitung hin zu einer digitalen Kommunikation entwickelt hat. Erste Impulse setzte die um die Jahrtausendwende beginnende Digitalisierung, die sich...

Mit der zunehmenden gesellschaftlichen Digitalisierung rückt beim Statistischen Bun- desamt eine verstärkt digitale und zielgruppengerechte Kommunikation in den Fokus, auch beim Großprojekt Zensus 2022. Für die identifizierten Zielgruppen wurde eine umfassende Kommunikation im Digitalen,...

Soziale Medien spielen eine paradoxe Rolle für Interessenvertretung in globalen Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken. Zum einen bieten Social-Media-Plattformen Arbeitnehmer*innen und Gewerkschaften dieMöglichkeit der Mobilisierung über geografische und institutionelle Distanzen hinweg. Zum anderen...

The distribution of labour productivity is investigated by analyzing the longitudinal micro-level data set which contains the detailed financial conditions of large numbers of Japanese companies over the period 1996-2006. The authors show that the distribution of labour productivity in both the...

Labour productivity distribution (dispersion) is studied within the framework of statistical physics and the result is compared with the outcome of the empirical analysis. Superstatistics is presented as a natural theoretical framework for the productivity distribution. The demand index ê is...

Many structural changes have occurred in the European Union countries, for example, there have been changes in sectoral employment share, in the demand of goods due to technology, in trade patterns and in technology. These structural changes may affect the process of convergence. Most of the...

Using the 2013 World Bank Enterprise Survey data for Uganda, this paper employs the quintile estimation technique to explain the relationship between labour productivity and innovation among SMEs. Innovation involves the introduction of a new or significantly improved production process,...

The purpose of our study is to analyse the impact of FDI on the labour markets of the states that joined the EU in 2004, before and after the EU accession and in the context of the global economic crisis. To achieve this objective, we have investigated the literature and carried out a pooled OLS...