Facebook Platform is a prominent example of an internet-based service for which third-party developers can offer small add-on programs, which are often referred to as applications. The distribution of success of applications is highly skewed. This market structure with few blockbuster...

Where end-users once queued up to ask the IT department for permission to buy a new computer or a new version of software, they are now bypassing IT altogether and buying it on their own. From laptops and smartphones to iPads and virtually unlimited software apps, end-users have tasted their...

The initial wireless phone industry in the United States had many competitors, but due to mergers and acquisitions the industry has become highly consolidated. This paper documents the history of the consolidation. More importantly, I use the geographic path of consolidation to distinguish...

As this Article demonstrates, most experts agree that the electromagnetic spectrum is a vital natural resource. Yet European and U.S. governments fail to treat it as such. The author looks at contributions made by two scholars, Ronald Coase's public trust doctrine and Garrett Hardin's tragedy of...

Adolescent cancer patients have to deal with many dependencies and obligations. Very often they are torn out oftheir social environment and become isolated because of changing therapy cycles and different treatment locations.This causes significant social and economic damages. The objective of...

Mobile IT-Systeme gewinnen im Gesundheitswesen immer stärker an Bedeutung. Nacheinem Überblick über mobile Informationssysteme im Gesundheitswesen und ihreNutzenpotentiale wird folgend exemplarisch auf die systematische Entwicklung, Nutzung undNutzen mobiler Anwendungen anhand mobiler...

Im Rahmen des übergeordneten Projekts OnkoConnect, das an der Technischen UniversitätMünchen (TUM), am Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik, in Zusammenarbeit mit derUniversitätskinderklink Heidelberg, Abteilung für Onkologie und Hämatologie, durchgeführtwird, wurde ein mobiles...