This ICB Research Report constitutes the proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Variability Modelling of Software-intensive Systems (VaMoS'08), which was held from January 16-18, 2008 at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

When managing information technology (IT) infrastructure investments, companies traditionally try to evaluate the monetary costs and benefits of this information system (IS) or seek to implement prudent IT governance structures. However, when collective, cooperation-specific investments in...

This ICB Research Report constitutes the proceedings of the following events which were held during the Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality (REFSQ) conference 2012 in Essen, Germany. Engineering for Sustainable Systems (RE4SuSy), Requirements Engineering Efficiency Workshop...

An increasing use of IT facilitates firms to use more efficient organizational forms. Significant reorganizations of business processes around IT capital can thereby boost productivity growth. The aim of this study is to empirically examine how firm productivity growth is affected by...

Elektronische Marktplätze verändern seit den letzten Jahren immer häufiger bestehende Wertschöpfungsketten. Neben konventionellen Märkten entstehen globale Märkte, auf denen ortsunabhängig eine große Zahl von Anbietern und Kunden Handelstransaktionen abwickeln kann. Die große Zahl von...

There is much debate on how the flow of information between firms should be organized, and whether existing privacy laws should be amended. We offer a welfare comparison of the three main current policies towards consumer privacy anonymity, opt in, and opt out within a two-period model of...

Im Rahmen einer umfassenden betrieblichen Compliance, also der Gewährleistung einer gesetzestreuen und regelkonformen, ordnungsgemäßen Unternehmensführung, ist durch geeignete Kontrollen sicher zu stellen, dass Gesetzesverstöße und regelwidriges Verhalten im Unternehmen sowie aus ihnen...

We study firm-level adoption of packaged software products of almost 4,000 UK sites between 2000 and 2003. We consider all software used in a firm as its software product and categorize it into related, but distinct subsystems: the core subsystem (Operating Systems), and Desktop and Enterprise...