Markt- und Unternehmensentwicklung Markets and Organisations

Am Beispiel der Absicherung des Wildschadens untersucht Thomas Zwack, inwieweit eine Abkehr von der klassischen Beziehung zwischen Versichertem und Versicherer auf Basis eines bilateralen Vertrags zwischen Privatpersonen neue Märkte eröffnen kann …

Marc Marheineke explores the phenomenon of boundary objects in the process of virtual collaboration. Virtual collaboration is an interactive act that connects jointly and voluntarily collaborating individuals that are electronically linked and he …

In contrast to hierarchical leadership within intra-organizational contexts, leaders of inter-organizational networks have to lead across organizational boundaries without hierarchical fiat or directive authority. The central research question of Sus

Stefan R. Thallmaier’s investigation enables mass customization businesses to better understand how co-design increases customers’ value perception. He focuses on the increasing proliferation of service channels (online, mobile and in-store) and digi

Because of the specific characteristics of innovation communities, social relationships between community members play a pivotal role for performance in such settings. In response, Martin Dumbach takes a social capital perspective and approaches the

Transition economies, such as the countries in Southeast Europe, face an expeditious institutional transition from a centrally planned to a market economy. The state withdraws from its monitoring function, which results in institutional voids that af

In a networked world which is characterized by interactive value creation, traditional organizational boundaries loose importance in favor of processes of distributed organizing. Therefore, thinking about and designing organizations requires going be

Unternehmen betrachten einen funktionierenden IT-Betrieb als gegeben, denn bei einem Ausfall der IT stehen Produktionsbänder still oder können Transaktionen nicht durchgeführt werden. Dennoch zählt der IT-Betrieb in der Regel nicht zur eigenen Kernko

Over the past two decades, investors from outside the motion picture industry have increasingly supplied equity to U.S. film productions. Today, these so-called co-financing arrangements are a common phenomenon in Hollywood. While the large studio

Open source, community and crowd innovations have not only drastically changed the way products and services are developed, but also the way we work and live. Yet, organizations of all kinds, may they be small or large, globalized or local, etc., sti

​Innovationswettbewerbe spielen für die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung bereits seit vielen Jahrhunderten eine wichtige Rolle. In den letzten 10 Jahren jedoch haben sich die Anzahl der Innovationswettbewerbe und der Wert der dabei angebotenen Gewinne bem

​Innovations are a critical success factor for organizations to survive. Nowadays possibilities of information and communication technologies facilitate the use of IT-based tools for the integration of external innovators into the innovation process

With an ever increasing globalization of the economy, rapid technological progress, and intensifying competition, service firms such as airports constantly have to fuel the engine of renewal to keep on prospering. Nevertheless, research is still l

This work deals with hybrid value creation, i.e., the process of generating additional value by innovatively combining products (tangible component) and services (intangible component). Vivek K. Velamuri provides a systematic assessment of the state-

Selecting new product or service ideas that are worthwhile to be exploited has always been a major challenge to firms of all kinds. Recent developments, however, add a new facet to the evaluation challenge. Initiatives such as innovation contests, i

​Die Diskussion in der Organisationstheorie und -praxis rankt sich wiederkehrend um die These, dass sich die Organisation von Unternehmen stärker an deren Geschäftsprozessen ausrichten sollte. Mit Hilfe einer branchenübergreifenden Fokusgruppenstudie