Companies can be valuable partners in delivering essential goods but must be appropriately motivated to participate in humanitarian crisis management. This work provides valuable insights into the status of humanitarian crisis management from the perspective of different stakeholders. It shows...

Increasingly, funding of academic research is carried out through the support of collaboration, rather than through single awards to a sole grant holder. The practice is well supported by evidence that larger, network-based research achieve high quality while leading to a number of capacity...

AbstractThe objective of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of networks in which new knowledgeemerges and through which it is exchanged. Our conjecture is that the structure of a networkcannot be divorced from the dynamics of the knowledge underpinning its activities. In so doing welook...

Measuring organizations’ readiness for collaboration and accordingly knowledge managementhas been a topic for years. With the emergence of Web 2.0 and its new possibilities for moreeffective collaboration, it has become increasingly relevant to determine the maturity of anorganization in...

Der Begriff e-Science (electronic oder auchenhanced science) hat inzwischen Eingangin die Wikipedia gefunden, er bezeichnet eine„kollaborative Forschung, die auf der Basiseiner umfassend digitalen Infrastruktur vollzogenwird“ und umfasst unter anderem die BereicheWissensmanagement,...

Die Erstellung von Software zur Unterstützung betrieblicher Abläufe wird in zunehmendem Maßekomplexer. Da der Erstellungsprozess in der Softwareindustrie traditionell einer Werkstatt- bzw. Einzelfertigungentspricht, erfordert die stetig steigende Nachfrage nach betrieblicher Software und...