Crowdfunding represents an alternative way of funding entrepreneurial ventures - and is attracting a high amount of interest in research as well as practice. Against this background, this paper analyzes reward-based crowdfunding campaign strategies and their communication tools. To do this, 446...

Zusammenfassung Kleine und mittlere Hotels zählen zum Rückgrat des Tourismus - auch in der Schweiz. Allerdings ist über die konkreten Herausforderungen an das Management solcher Betriebe nur beschränktes Wissen vorhanden. Der vorliegende Beitrag entwickelt und diskutiert einen Ansatz zur...

Business process modelling has gained widespread acceptance, particularly inlarge IT-enabled business projects. It is applied as a process design andmanagement technique across all project lifecycle phases. While there has beenmuch research on process modelling, there has been little attention...

The South African Futures Exchange (SAFEX) implemented anonymous trading on all their futures contracts on 26 May 2009. The impact of market design on market liquidity is still not well understood. Some markets, e.g. Hong Kong Stock Exchange, disclose broker mnemonics whereas in other markets,...

ERP systems have become vital strategic tools in today’s competitive business environment. This ongoing research study presents a review of recent research work in ERP systems. It attempts to identify the main benefits of ERP systems, the drawbacks and the critical success factors for...

Managing relations with customers has been a main concern for business organisations fromdifferent sizes and fields. Such a concern has grown rapidly in the last few decades for a number ofreasons such as the development of new technologies especially in the field of informationtechnology (IT)....

The rapid growth of the internet and e-commerce provide new opportunities for China’s retailers, and a new battle for China’s retail industry has begun. The purpose of this research is to explore the barriers and factors for achieving successful e-tailing in China’s retail industry. Some...

Untersuchung mit dem zentralen Ziel der Bestimmung von kontrollierbaren Erfolgsfaktoren bei Auslandsniederlassung. Basierend auf dem kontingenztheoretischen Ansatz wird eine erfolgsoptimierende Ausrichtung der gestaltbaren Faktoren auf die nicht oder wenig beeinflussbaren Faktoren angenommen....

Die zahlreichen empirischen Studien der Gründungsforschung und insbesondere die Forschung zum Erfolg neugegründeter Unternehmen weisen Schwächen auf, so dass sie nicht ohne weiteres verwertbar sind.Darüber hinaus sind – nach der Grundannahme der Erfolgsfaktorenforschung – die wenigen...

Project success is an attractive idea but what factors lead to success remains an areaof conjecture. In the project management literature the success has often beendefined in terms of better control of timescales, budgets and resource planning. Yetthese are impoverished terms for conceptualising...