Der vorliegende Sammelband enthält insgesamt sieben Beiträge zu Informations- und Planungsproblemen in den vier öffentlichen Aufgabenbereichen: Gesundheitswesen, neuere Infrastrukturen, Wohnungsmarktpolitik und Rundfunksystem. Die hier ausgewählten Gebiete, bei denen das Schwergewicht auf...

We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth offirms. We interpret managers´ answers to survey questions on the extent to which variousaspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring theshadow cost of...

Although, from a technical point of view, business frameworks appear to be apromising means to provide the industry with commercial, mission critical business managementsoftware in a cost effective manner and within a competitive time to market, up to now,only very few framework vendors like IBM...

Zum dritten Mal wird ein Workshop veranstaltet, der sich dem Themasozio-technischer Infrastrukturen für demokratische Prozesse widmet. Dabei ist einWandel zu beobachten: Die Diskussion von Konzepten, ihren Herausforderungenund Risken, wird ergänzt um Praxisberichte von prototypischen...

In this chapter we depict collaborative aspects of tailoring software. We provide a categorization distinguishing between three levels of intensity of user ties regarding tools usage (“shared use”, “shared context”, and “shared tool”) and discuss approaches to support collaborative...

In fragmented work settings like networked organizations or virtual organizations, monolithic approaches to implement support for collaboration would require the actors involved to agree on the usage of the approach or tool under consideration. As the autonomy of actors in these settings makes...

Public infrastructure is an important part of a wellfunctioningurban economy. Such infrastructure—definedhere as publicly owned and maintained physical capital—hashistorically played a central role in allowing cities to grow bymitigating or reducing problems such as congested...