Introduction to the Featured Topic "New Nationalism and Xenophobia in Africa", Africa Spectrum, Vol. 44, No. 1 (2009)

This article analyses voting behaviour in the South African election of 2009 and draws conclusions regarding the significance of party affiliation and issue-based voting in South Africa. It demonstrates the low level of voter registration and voter turnout. In the 2009 election the Independent...

If mass-media reception as well as production are at once expression and motor of structural violence; if communications technology can be understood, historically, only as an integral part of the emerging military industrial complex; if the access to and the power over the mass media are unequal...

The traditional way of budgeting in public administrations is input-oriented; however, this system does not meet actual methods of efficient budget controlling as a mapping of output parameters. Due to challenges, such as the need for cost reduction because of decreasing tax revenues, pressure for...

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...

BPM research has been of great importance in Germany since the early 1990s. In Russia, increased competition and new IT possibilities have only recently forced both companies and governmental institutions to start taking benefits from BPM. Against this background, the workshop PropelleR 2012...

Das Ziel dieses gemeinsamen Arbeitsberichtes der Forschungsprojekte MW-KiD und ARGEPLAN ist somit, die Anpassung der MW-KiD Methode zur Abbildung web-basierter Informationssysteme sowie die Entwicklung eines geeigneten Beschreibungsinstrumentariums für die Darstellung und Analyse der...

Ziele und Aufbau der Arbeit - In allen Kapiteln dieser Arbeit werden der Aufbau und die Struktur der Inhalte zur besseren Übersichtlichkeit grafisch dargestellt. Kapitel 2 klassifiziert Software nach Typ und Einsatzbereich und stellt anschließend einen rechtlichen Zusammenhang zu der...

CIM aus Sicht der Informationswirtschaft zu untersuchen, heißt, über die Interdependenzen der Realwelt hinaus in einer Metaebene ein Modell zu formulieren, welches die Realwelt möglichst gut wiedergibt. Diese Metaebene wird durch vier Integrationskomponenten definiert. Durch die Beschreibung...