In this article we point at the large potentials that corporate community portals can have to support the business model of companies. In particular corporate community portals of the next generation are characterized by the integration of business intelligence tools which can facilitate or even...

Zur Unterstützung von Finanzprozessen setzt die Finanzabteilung der Bayer AG seit 2001 auf einePortallösung, die seitdem kontinuierlich erweitert wurde. Heute bietet das Portal heute über siebzigverschiedene Dienste für mehr als 2000 Mitarbeiter weltweit an. Bei der Weiterentwicklung des...

Corporate portals are supposed to support a company’s business model and to increase productivity of the employees. However, the productivity gain that can be achieved by corporate portals is often undermined because the users of the portal are not sufficiently informed about the portal’s...

Auction fever is a multifaceted phenomenon thatis frequently observed in both traditional and Internetauctions. In order to gain a better understanding of itscauses, we develop a conceptual framework to analyzeemotions in auctions, which is based on an exhaustiveliterature review. The framework...

At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Graduate School InformationManagement and Market Engineering (IME) which is financed by the GermanResearch Association (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), offers an interdisciplinarydoctoral program on the economic, technological and legal...

Wir untersuchen den Einfluss sogenannter Feedbackmechanismen auf die Beteiligung im Web 2.0 Kontext. In einer explorativen Studie wurden zwanzig Studierende bei der Registrierung für ein Vorlesungswiki zufällig, entweder der Experimentalbedingung (Feedback nach jedem Beitrag) oder der...

In this article we provide a seminal academic investigationof mobile telephony consumers’ perception of the recentlyintroduced cost cap tariff in comparison to corresponding payper-use and flatrate calling plans. Previous studies have identifiedseveral psychological effects through which...

The long tail phenomenon has been heavily discussed in recentyears. What has been neglected so far is its striking relevance forelectronic services. Whereas consumers expectations about informationgoods are often vague and transient, their requirements are pronouncedand specific when it comes to...