Component technologies are perceived as an important means to keep software architectures flexible. Flexibility offered by componenttechnologies typically addresses software developers at design time. However, the design of software which should support socialsystems, such as work groups or...

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...

Many modern organizations can be seen as network organizations. Their participantsare individuals as well as organizations, they cooperate in distributed teams.Especially in knowledge-intensive domains (service engineering, consulting, etc.)project teams form with participants from very...

In this contribution we discuss possible approaches to exploring new directions in support for knowledgemanagement with computers. We consider networked computers in their role as communication media, andlook at three perspectives on communication support for knowledge management: communication...

CSCL at the workplace is subject to the special characteristics of a situation where learning is not the primary taskof the learners. The gap between the goal to work efficiently and the need to increase qualification and skills is evenwider in organizations which operate in knowledge-intensive...

The „OlViO“ project1 deals with knowledge management and e-learning asintegral parts of organizational learning in virtual organizations. Some of theproblems encountered in classical organizations become even harder in virtualorganizations because their members are distributed and cooperate...

This paper investigates the influence of personality traits on occupational choice using data of theGerman Socio‐Economic Panel. We conduct multinomial logit analyses to differentiate malemanagers, professionals, technicians, clerks, service workers, and manual workers with respect totheir...

We empirically investigate if tournaments between heterogeneous contestants are less intensive. To test our hypotheses we use professional sports data from the TOYOTA Handball-Bundesliga, the major handball league in Germany.[...]

Following tournament theory, incentives will be rather low if the contestants ofa tournament are heterogeneous. We empirically test this prediction using alarge dataset from the German Hockey League. Our results show that indeed theintensity of a game is lower if the teams are more...

We analyze a two-stage game between two heterogeneous players.At stage one, common risk is chosen by one of the players. At stagetwo, both players observe the given level of risk and simultaneouslyinvest in a winner-take-all competition. The game is solved theoreticallyand then tested by using...