Logistics can be seen as a key competitive factor in the automotive industry due to the rising number of model variants and options. With the increasing importance of logistics (Gunasekaran et al. in Int J Prod Econ 87(3):333–347, 2004), the evaluation of logistics effectiveness and efficiency...

Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Aufbewahrung von E-Mails in Organisationen in derSchweiz. Die technischen Eigenschaften der marktdominierenden herkömmlichen E-Mail-Server-Systeme verursachen Probleme, die durch die sich laufend intensivierende Verwendungvon E-Mail zum Austausch von Dokumenten...

The structure of banking systems has been frequently in the debate over a long time. A re-structuring of banking systems is very often based on the experience of other countries. Ger-man cooperative banks can learn much about the development of Italy's cooperative banks. In contradiction to the...

While a market economy seeks equilibrium, a knowledge-based economy may upset this tendency towards stabilization by adding the feedback of globalization. The interaction among the three subdynamics of economic exchange, technological innovation, and institutional control can be captured with a...