In contemporary business environment, in which learning and knowledge are considered as the only sustainable competitive advantage of modern organisations, and there is a trend of growing reliance on project type of teams' and organizations' functioning, competencies of project team members are...

As they create generative conditions for socioeconomic development ICTs and broadband technology, can be understood as an innovation kernel for system evolution. Whereas for a regional system (a local area), technological progress may at certain times be regarded as exogenous, information...

Our paper is based on the qualitative content analysis (Gläser/Laudel 2010) of expert interviews with IT managers in German speaking countries. Drawing also from organisational development processes we have been carrying out, we analyse how the tension between the service function of IT as...