I draw primarily on two recent works to describe recent and ongoing changes in the business environment and in the structure of U.S. companies. Based on these changes, I describe what I see as action implications for executives and scientists, especially organization scientists. The...

Increasingly, organizations are assessing their opportunities, developing and delivering products and services, and interacting with customers and other stakeholders digitally. Mobile computing, social media, and big data are the drivers of the future workplace, and these and other digitally...

Überall entlang der Wertschöpfungskette fallen Daten an. Jeder Akteur produziert gezielt oder als Beiprodukt Daten an verschiedenen Stellen des Produktionsprozesses. Diese Daten können einen erheblichen Nutzen für die Unternehmen selbst und für die Wirtschaft als Ganzes bieten. Deshalb ist...

Der wirtschaftliche Konvergenzprozess zwischen Ost- und Westdeutschland verläuft seit Mitte der 1990er Jahre langsam, stoppte aber nicht. Der IW-Einheitsindex als zusammengesetzter Indikator aus sieben ökonomischen Kennzahlen erreichte im Jahr 2021 bereits 78 Prozent des westdeutschen...

Digitale Daten sind ein zentrales Element von Prozessen, Produkten und Geschäftsmodellen. Dementsprechend wichtig ist das Teilen dieser Daten. In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, wie intensiv Unternehmen in Deutschland Data Sharing betreiben. Dazu wurden 1.051 Industrieunternehmen und...

Routine action', a form to take action, is widely accepted in the economic field, because of its resource saving effect which contributes to average cost degression. However, from an entropic point of view, each form of acting requires decision making in regard to consumption of resources and...

This paper presents a theoretical model to investigate the incentive of private producer and policymaker to reduce seasonality in a given market, where consumers derive different utilities from the consumption of the good in different seasons. The (seasonal) product differentiation is modelled...

In this article, the authors present a theoretical model to investigate the private and social incentives to reduce seasonality in a given market. They assume that consumers derive different utilities from the consumption of the same good in different seasons. The seasonal product...

A people's culture, norms and habits are important determinants not just of the quality of social life but of economic progress and growth. In this paper we take the view that while the importance of culture is undeniable, the innateness of culture is not. We work here with a single example and...

We analyze the quinoa sector situation and prospects in Bolivia, based on both secondary and primary information sources (i.e. surveys of producers and interviews to key actors). The quinoa sector has sustainability problems in production, market shares and price volatility. However, this grain...