The costs of 3D printing have rapidly fallen and have thus provoked new interest in this technology, which by itself does not pose a revolutionary challenge. Prima facie, it seems to present a fitting analogy to the extreme price declines in computing that Christensen described as the...

Open source software (OSS) and hardware (OSH) are two expressions of one broader concept and its related movement. One of the most fundamental questions relating to these phenomena is why developers contribute their private resources to these public goods. While this question has been discussed,...

In this study, we investigate the factors at employee level that influence the adoption of a customer-facing video conferencing software in an insurance company. Despite the associated benefit of significantly reduced driving times for the insurance agents, less than half of our sample finally...

There is a wide gap between the wealth of different types of social business support organizations in practice and the academic description of this reality. While social entrepreneurship in general is a growing field and continuous to attract research attention, the description, let alone...

A long and rich research tradition exists on the phenomenon of business incubators since this kind of venture support institution first emerged. One can observe an increasing heterogeneity of incubation beyond the traditional mainstream focus on regional development and university-based...

Die Arbeit untersucht die Koordination und Kollaboration von Entwicklern in 29 Open Source Projekten empirisch. Dazu werden Analyseverfahren und standardisierte Messwerte aus der Sozialen Netzwerkanalyse angewendet, um Einflussfaktoren und Variablen zu identifizieren welche die Art und Weise der...