Desertec's proposal to produce renewable energy in North Africa and transmit it to Europe would be a possible solution to many energy-related problems. The feasibility of Desertec has been investigated in various studies, with mostly positive, but differing results. The four main feasibility...

The European Research Center for Information Systems (ERCIS) was founded on October, 12th 2004. This Working Paper was written with respect to the establishment of ERCIS. Jörg Becker, Managing Director of the ERCIS, writes about fundamental issues of ERCIS. Furthermore all Founding Members...

Die vorliegende Studie befasst sich mit dem Einsatz von digitalen Medien in B2B-Beschaffungsprozessen im deutschen Markt. Dieser wird in der existierenden Literatur nur unzureichend erfasst. Zum einen wird die Vielfalt digitaler Medien nicht berücksichtigt. Zum anderen werden die Heterogenität...

Strategic partnering has become a common place when introducing innovations to systems markets. In standards battles, network affiliation has been used as a market signal to create confidence in a format's success. This paper's authors thus develop and test a model aimed at finding the right...