Integration of risk management and management control is emerging as an important area in the wake of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and with ongoing development of frameworks such as the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) framework from the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission...

The emergence of Enterprise Resource Planning systems and Business Process Management have led to improvements in the design, implementation, and overall management of business processes. However, the typical focus of these initiatives has been on internal business operations, assuming a defined...

The emergence of Enterprise Resource Planning systems and Business Process Management have led to improvements in the design, implementation, and overall management of business processes. However, the typical focus of these initiatives has been on internal business operations, assuming a defined...

Business Process (BP) literature promotes the value of business processes as essential gearwheels that help organizations to reach their goals. Similarly, many process design approaches claim that Information Technology (IT) is a major enabler of business process, a view also shared by the...

The management of intellectual property (IP) within Australian government research and development agencies has changed dramatically over recent years. Increasing expectations have been placed on utilising public sector IP to both underpin economic development and augment taxes by generating new...

Entrepreneurship is, by necessity, a function of opportunities and constraints that a given environment presents, together with the vision and project of a new enterprise that the entrepreneur conceives of. His background, skills and motivation shape his ability to convert those opportunities...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is overburdened with a large volume of patent applications while having limited resources to conduct patent examinations. The patent examination process is too long and the quality of issued patents is questioned by the public. We propose to...

The standards setting process relies to an increasing degree on successfully integrating up-to-date research and development results (R&D). The successful interaction between research and standards can provide important social benefits. But, to do so, a number of challenges need to be faced. One...

Am Montag, den 29. November 2010 fand das 6. Würzburger Wirtschaftssymposium unter dem Leitmotiv "Chef, lass uns mal Kultur machen!" statt. Die gemeinnützige Veranstaltung versteht sich seit jeher als Ort der Begegnung und des gemeinsamen Gedankenaustauschs, Studenten und Mitarbeiter aller...