At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Graduate School InformationManagement and Market Engineering (IME) which is financed by the GermanResearch Association (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), offers an interdisciplinarydoctoral program on the economic, technological and legal...

Once serving the whole value chain by what has become known as vertical integration,companies have long since started to outsource value creation processesto specialized partners. Moreover, societal changes have induced a paradigm shiftfrom product-driven to service-dominated value creation....

Grid technologies and the related concepts of utility computing and cloud computingenable the dynamic sourcing of computer resources and services, thus allowing enterprisesto cut down on hardware and software expenses and to focus on key competencies andprocesses. Resources are shared across...

Contemporary studies show that the usage of health-related web portals increases continuously. Additionally, the internet’s usage is in a transition towards more user participation by allowing more and more user generated content. In the area of health care this development is commonly called...

Unternehmensportale sind in der Lage heterogene und verteilte Unternehmenssystemeund –daten zusammenzuführen, um so Prozessabläufe zu unterstützen odersogar zu automatisieren. Die Portaltechnologie birgt somit große Potentiale in Bezugauf Produktivitäts- und Effizienzsteigerungen. Der...

In this article we point at the large potentials that corporate community portals can have to support the business model of companies. In particular corporate community portals of the next generation are characterized by the integration of business intelligence tools which can facilitate or even...

Today's shift from a product- to a service-oriented economy entails fundamental technical, organizational and economic challenges. The value generated by a service is mainly represented by intangible elements exposed at execution (Hill, 1977). Hence, service consumers expect a service to...

The notions of collaborative information seeking (CIS) and socialsearch have extended the classical model of information seekingand retrieval. In its core, CIS and social search acknowledge theexistence of multiple users and study their implicit and explicitinteractions across various...

Zur Unterstützung von Finanzprozessen setzt die Finanzabteilung der Bayer AG seit 2001 auf einePortallösung, die seitdem kontinuierlich erweitert wurde. Heute bietet das Portal heute über siebzigverschiedene Dienste für mehr als 2000 Mitarbeiter weltweit an. Bei der Weiterentwicklung des...

The long tail phenomenon has been heavily discussed in recentyears. What has been neglected so far is its striking relevance forelectronic services. Whereas consumers expectations about informationgoods are often vague and transient, their requirements are pronouncedand specific when it comes to...