Increasing globalization has created tremendous opportunities and challenges for organizations and societies. Consequently, a broad range of information technologies to better support the collaboration of diverse, and increasingly distributed, sets of participants is ever more utilized....

We analyze the role of bankers on the boards of German non-financial companies for the period from 1994 to 2005. We find that banks that are represented on a firm's board promote their own business as lenders and as M&A advisors. They also seem to act as financial experts who help firms to...

This volume features a collection of papers on emerging concepts, significant insights, novel approaches and ideas in information systems development. It examines advances in information systems development in general, and their impact on the development of new methods, tools and management. The...

Christoph Schneider untersucht Erlebnisse von Resorturlaubern. Das Ziel seiner Forschung ist es, zu verstehen, wie und in welchen Situationen aus Sicht des Reisenden Eindrücke aufgenommen werden, Erlebnisse entstehen und diese mit Merkmalen der jeweiligen Destinations- bzw. Resortmarke in...