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...

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...

Unternehmensgründungen wird meist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung eines Landes zugeschrieben (u.a. Bhawe/Zahra 2017; Kollmann et al. 2017). Gemessen an traditionellen Kennzahlen fällt dieser Beitrag jedoch sehr gering aus. Darüber hinaus zeichnet sich eine...

While traditional organizations create value within the boundaries of their firm or supply chain, digital platforms leverage and orchestrate a platform-mediated ecosystem to create and co-create value with a much wider array of partners and actors. Although the change to two-sided markets and...

Digital transformation is continuously changing ecosystems, which also forces established companies to re-evaluate their value proposition. However, only transformations of single ecosystems have been studied. Therefore, this work targets to examine the similarities of digital transformation in...

Unternehmensgründungen wird meist ein wichtiger Beitrag zur gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung eines Landes zugeschrieben (u.a. Bhawe/Zahra 2017; Kollmann et al. 2017). Gemessen an traditionellen Kennzahlen fällt dieser Beitrag jedoch sehr gering aus. Darüber hinaus zeichnet sich eine...