Dieser Beitrag untersucht die personalwirtschaftlichen Aspekte der Fremdvergabe von IT-Leistungen. Er bietet einen systematischen Überblick über bestehende theoretische und empirische Arbeiten zum Thema IT-Outsourcing und legt dabei einen besonderen Schwerpunkt auf die personalwirtschaftlichen...

Digital designs - that is, designs for display on electronic screens - have recently burst onto the intellectual property (IP) stage. While in the U.S. a smattering of legal studies have recently addressed the question of digital design as a copyright-, trademark- and patent-eligible subject...

Innovativität als Kriterium bei Venture-Capital-Investitionsentscheidungen Die Innovativität eines Gründungsvorhabens ist ein wichtiges Kriterium für Venture-Capital-Geber bei der Beteiligungsprüfung, jedoch weder konzeptionell noch durch Messungen leicht zu erfassen. Trotz dessen hoher...

We analyze the possibility and consequences of coalition-formation amongst suppliers of retail services. We first provide a framework in which producers of Substitutes have an incentive to Cluster in market places in order to attract consumers dispersed in space. Owing to spatial externalities,...

The focus of existing open source software (OSS) research has been on how andwhy individuals and firms add to the commons of public OSS code—that is, on the“giving” side of this open innovation process. In contrast, research on thecorresponding “receiving” side of the innovation...

Profiting from technological innovation requires both the development of new products and the capture orappropriation of profits from them. For new product development, the interplay of marketing and R&Dhas been intensively researched. In contrast, on the issue of capturing value, which is...