Germany is introducing a nation-wide health telematics infrastructure that enables various electronic health services (EHS). Little is known about the burdens and drivers for potential adoption of these innovations. Based on a quantitative study among German physicians participating in pilot...

In diesem Beitrag werden zwei verschiedene Skalen zur Durchführung von Teilnehmerbewertungenin Ideenwettbewerben auf ihre Validität untersucht. Dafürwerden diese mit einer unabhängigen, validierten Expertenbewertung verglichen.Auf Basis von Kreuztabellen wird gezeigt, dass eine einfache...

Purpose: Drawing from literature on innovation, strategy and culture the objective of this study is toexplore the role of perceived potentials and perceived strategic importance on CIOs’ perspective on RFIDtechnology in two different cultural settings.Methodology: Based on survey responses...

Research has shown that idea competitions are apromising approach for integrating customers intoopen innovation activities. Furthermore research onopen innovation shows that most innovations are theresult of intensive collaboration processes in whichmany individuals contribute according to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore whether online communities meet their potential ofproviding environments in which social relationships can be readily established to help patients copewith their disease through social support. The paper aims to develop and test a model to...

Carve out projects have recently become an emerging issue in practice and theory given the diversityof strategic foci of companies as well as recent merger and acquisition activities of firms. This paperhighlights the relevance of IT in such carve out projects. IT depicts their characteristics...

Carve Out Projekte, bei denen die Herauslösung von Unterneh-mensteilen zu eigenständigen Einheiten im Vordergrund steht, finden in der Forschung bisher kaum Beachtung. Die Rolle der IT als Schnittstellenfunktion birgt bei solchen Reorganisationen und Desinvestitionen allerdings große...

Background: Germany is introducing a nation-wide telemedicine infrastructure that enables electronic health services. The project is facing massive resistance from German physicians, which has led to a delay of more than five years. Little is known about the actual burdens and drivers for...

We employ a 2x3 factorial experiment to study two central factors in the design of prediction markets (PMs) for idea evaluation: the overall design of the PM, and the elasticity of market prices set by a market maker. The results show that 'multi-market designs' on which each contract is traded...