Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine characteristics of project management assets and project management performance outcomes as a step towards exploring the link between assets being valuable, rare, inimitable, and having organizational support and the achievement of competitive...

One of the reforms that have to be launched in a future unification process in Korea, which seems possible after the political negotiations last year, is the transformation of the North Korean banking system. The question arises whether Korea could profit from the German experience where banking...

Technology policy is a major part of government's efforts in contributing to East Ger-many's economic recovery. However, even a decade after unification East Germany does not produce sufficient technology goods. Thus, the question is whether technology policy is either not suitable or...

The human capital of a nation is highly correlated to its productivity. Thus, differences in human capital may be seen as one factor determining the productivity gap between East and West Germany. However, a disadvantage of East Germany with regard to hu-man capital only shows up as long as it...

Innovationen werden gemeinhin als wichtiges Instrument für Produktivitätssteigerungen angesehen. Auch wenn zuletzt scheinbar der Schrumpfungsprozess der ostdeutschen Spitzentechnologie gestoppt ist, so ist die Industrie der neuen Länder weiterhin vorwiegend durch nicht FuE-intensive Branchen...

Im Jahr 1997 ist die gesamtwirtschaftliche Produktion in Ostdeutschland merklich schwächer gestiegen als in Westdeutschland. Die Nachricht wurde allenthalben mit Enttäuschung registriert; da und dort hat sie auch zu Irritationen geführt. Der Aufschwung Ost, so war zu lesen, sei ins Stocken...

Ende 1989, vor fast zehn Jahren, ist in der DDR das sozialistische System zusammengebrochen. Damit wurde der Weg geebnet für eine freiheitliche demokratische Ordnung auf der Grundlage der Sozialen Marktwirtschaft. Ein Jahr später waren beide Teile Deutschlands wieder vereint. Der...

The importance attached by project managers to project success criteria and the associated rates of project success were assessed for different types of projects, industries and traits of project managers. 959 responses to a web-based survey showed that importance attached to project success...

Research shows the best project performance is obtained when there is high collaboration between client and project manager, and medium levels of structure, when the project manager and project owner work together in partnership, and the manager is empowered. Unfortunately, this is not how it...