In building a knowledge society, it is critically important to thoroughly understand quality and standards in e-learning. This book provides a cross-national perspective on these issues and draws a picture of the situation in quality development and standardisation. It covers topics of a...

The topic of digital maturity has evolved into a full-grown hype in the last decade. It is widely assumed that the level of an organization's digital maturity is directly linked to its performance. Digital Maturity Models (DMMs) have been designed specifically to assess an organization's digital...

Propelled by digitalisation, crowd knowledge (CK) has gained popularity alongside a plurality of related crowd-based concepts (crowdsourcing, wisdom of crowds and collective intelligence), resulting in an inconsistent understanding of the terms and their application. Based on a structured...

The design of effective organisational structures is a basic managementrequirement and essential for operational success. This applies accordingly for themanagement of information technology. Topics like process organisation, process orientationand process management are currently discussed in...

Blockchains, a disruptive technology with potentially many applications in modern-day supply chain (SC) transactions, have not been adequately reflected by theory. Researchers and business managers must understand where and when blockchains’ application may be expected and investigated. The...

Purpose – By studying the drivers of social collaboration the purpose of this paper is to describe how, and for what job-related purposes, social software is employed in the digital workplace. Focussing on consultants, who are considered to be part of a knowledge-intensive and innovative...

Purpose Considering working in the digital age, questions on the consequences for the individual workers are, so far, often neglected. The purpose of this paper is to deal with the question of whether the digital competences of the workforce is a research topic. The authors argue for the thesis...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore user-centered design possibilities at the intersection of gamification and persuasive technology to foster energy saving behavior. Design/methodology/approach: We performed a large-scale empirical study of 480 participants and analyzed how...