With regard to an expected further increase in migration movements within Europe and to Europe in the medium term, this thesis examines the economic consequences of immigration and the role that integra-tion plays in it. In addition, existing integration monitoring systems will be presented and...

The value chain concept disaggregates a firm into the various activities it performs. Abstracting from the firm-level this concept has also been applied to industries as a whole. In this paper we conceptualize a software specific value chain and provide a first proof of concept. Our approach...

Purpose – This work has two main objectives: to obtain a set of scales for measuring the patterns, attitudes and practices of integration that can be extrapolated to different scopes (both internal and external) and participants (supplier and customer) within the supply chain; and to evaluate...