The aim of this paper is to analyse the effects of knowledge management on theinnovation success of firms in Germany. Using a matching procedure on data from theGerman Innovation Survey of 2003 (“Mannheim Innovation Panel”), we pair firmsapplying knowledge management with twin firms with...

In this paper we asses the current state of research on Lean Production and Supply Chain Management in the aeronautic industry, with two basic aims: 1) identify all lines of research developed, providing a classification criterion of literature, 2) discuss the empirical evidence and try to...

Business students often have difficulty integrating economics reasoning into other business disciplines because of differences in the format and presentation of financial data across disciplines. Economics courses use one format while Accounting and other business courses use another. This paper...

Recent research has led to the empirical regularity that rm growth rate distributionsare heavy tailed. This nding implies that a few rms experience spectaculargrowth rates and decline, but that most rms have marginal growth rates. The literatureon high growth rms shows that high growth rms are...

Das neue, von Dr.-Ing. Ansgar Woltering, DB Systel GmbH, verfasste Arbeitspapier befasst sich mit der bedarfs- und marktgerechte Ausgestaltung und Bereitstellung von Services in Bezug auf Informations- und Telekommunikationstechnik (ITK). Insbesondere wird auf das Instrument des Benchmarking...

Als wesentliche Beteiligte am IT-Management (bzw.Informationsmanagement) werden für gewöhnlich die Unternehmensleitung,die Fachabteilung und die IT-Abteilung genannt. Demgemäß konzentriertsich die Diskussion um die Verantwortung für die effektive undeffiziente Nutzung der informationellen...

The evaluation of consulting services is a widely, but controversially discussed issue. While there is obviously an increasing need for appropriate evaluation, there are critics questioning the applicability of evaluation methods as well as the motivation to assess. We provide a framework that...

The authors analyze the optimal replacement of assets under continuous and discontinuoustechnological change. They investigate the variable lifetime of assets in an infinite-horizonreplacement problem. Due to deterioration, the maintenance cost increases when the assetbecomes older. Because of...

Ein großer Anteil der multinational tätigen Großunternehmen ist in technologieintensiven, dynamischen Branchen tätig und verfügt über ein breites Spektrum an technologischen Ressourcen. In den vergangenen Dekaden hat ein Großteil dieser Unternehmen zunehmend Wertschöpfungsleistungen an...

This paper provides a quantitative study (N = 268) of patterns of free revealing offirm-developed innovations within embedded Linux, a type of open source software (OSS). Ifind that firms, without being obliged to do so, contribute many of their own developmentsback to public embedded Linux...