The idea of integrating users into the design and production process is a promising strategy for companies being forced to react to the growing individualization of demand. While there is a huge amount of managerial literature on mass customization, empirical findings are scarce.(...)

Even though the question as to whether optimal organizational structures exist has been asked repeatedly, organization theory has not been able to answer it in general form. Over time, several useful heuristic principles to direct the structuring of organizationshave emerged.(...)

...The present paper leaves this concern with banks andmarkets aside and instead proposes to focus attention on the industrial corporation as a financial institution in its own right.

The St. Gallen Management Concept could be termed the DNA of the Integrated Business Model that is developed and detailed by Oliver D. Doleski. The practical St. Gallen Management Concept offers a good conceptual framework for the development of change, and increasingly dynamic change, which is...