This book explores the interdependences of economic globalisation, political tensions, and national policymaking whilst analysing opportunities for governance reform at both national and international levels. It considers how governance mechanisms can be fashioned in order to both exploit the...

Through the advancement of information technology, a new type of innovation could emerge. This innovation type suggests a leading company to open up its software service platform to customers as well as competitors. Many innovation studies have been performed in the past, in order to understand...

In this study, we develop a theoretical model based on social network theories and analytical methods for exploring collaboration (co-authorship) networks of scholars. We use measures from social network analysis (SNA) (i.e., normalized degree centrality, normalized closeness centrality,...

As empirical studies have found that large complex networks (e.g., WWW) are scale-free, the preferential attachment model is commonly applied to generate this network topology. This model assumes a node with higher degree is more likely to gain a new link, and ignore node attributes except the...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to empirically analyse the structure of the Web 2.0 service network and the mechanism behind its evolution over time. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the list of Web 2.0 services and their mashups that is provided on Programmableweb, a network...

Im Frühjahr 2003 führten fünf wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter des Institutes für Europäische Wirtschaftsstudien (IEWS) an der European School of Business (ESB), Reutlingen, unter Leitung von Prof. Dr. Schneck eine empirische Studie zum Thema "Effizientes Kompetenzmanagement in Unternehmen"...