This paper finalizes the current research in Social Media Marketing domain, closely examining the topic of utilizing social media for advertising purposes in software industry field and aims to identify the mechanisms behind consumers' desire to purchase software products and services and the...

This article summarizes findings from selected research conducted under the Social Security Administration's (SSA's) Disability Research Consortium (DRC) at the Mathematica Center for Studying Disability Policy. Mathematica researchers, often in collaboration with SSA and other research...

In this era of «information explosion», financial accounting with information systems is becoming more and more accessible. This paper aims to present some effective applications/services for SMEs, such as the free and open-source software (FOSS/FLOSS) and the proprietary software for...

The literature has been inconclusive regarding which factors determine knowledge worker productivity. To remedy that gap, this paper presented an online experiment to measure the productivity of software programmers, as a representative of knowledge workers, in a particular situation when a more...

Several scholars as well as industry professionals have claimed that there is a "software-biased shift" in the nature and direction of innovation in that software development is a core part of innovation activities in firms across a wide array of industries. Empirical firm-level evidence of such...

Im Rahmen der Digitalisierung entstehen dynamische Kräfte, die zukünftige Arbeitsstrukturen prägen. In der Praxis sind Unternehmen zunehmend daran interessiert, ihre eigenen Mitarbeiter in einer internen Crowd einzusetzen. Daher hat die Anwendung von internem Crowdsourcing in Unternehmen als...

Automation is gradually changing in the way communications departments work. The new issue of Communication Insights "The power of bots" summarizes the results of the research project by the University of Duisburg-Essen. The study focusses on two aspects: Chatbots: How can communications...

A key task in organization design is to group elements (e.g., roles) into sub-units (e.g., teams or departments). This task is computationally challenging as one must take into consideration a potentially large number of interdependencies between the elements. It also requires data about work...