Dieser Beitrag untersucht die personalwirtschaftlichen Aspekte der Fremdvergabe von IT-Leistungen. Er bietet einen systematischen Überblick über bestehende theoretische und empirische Arbeiten zum Thema IT-Outsourcing und legt dabei einen besonderen Schwerpunkt auf die personalwirtschaftlichen...

Digital designs - that is, designs for display on electronic screens - have recently burst onto the intellectual property (IP) stage. While in the U.S. a smattering of legal studies have recently addressed the question of digital design as a copyright-, trademark- and patent-eligible subject...

Innovativität als Kriterium bei Venture-Capital-Investitionsentscheidungen Die Innovativität eines Gründungsvorhabens ist ein wichtiges Kriterium für Venture-Capital-Geber bei der Beteiligungsprüfung, jedoch weder konzeptionell noch durch Messungen leicht zu erfassen. Trotz dessen hoher...

We analyze the possibility and consequences of coalition-formation amongst suppliers of retail services. We first provide a framework in which producers of Substitutes have an incentive to Cluster in market places in order to attract consumers dispersed in space. Owing to spatial externalities,...

The focus of existing open source software (OSS) research has been on how andwhy individuals and firms add to the commons of public OSS code—that is, on the“giving” side of this open innovation process. In contrast, research on thecorresponding “receiving” side of the innovation...

The start-up team plays a key role in venture capitalists’ evaluations of venture proposals. Ourfindings go beyond existing research, first by providing a detailed exploration of VCs’ team evaluationcriteria, and second by investigating the moderator variable of VC experience. Our results...

An important and intriguing aspect of e-entrepreneurship is theformation of new ventures in the domain of open source software (OSS).Previous research on these ventures has primarily looked at the design ofbusiness models. The purpose of this paper is to explore how three keychallenges of...

The literature on new goods and social welfare generally assumes thatmanufacturers develop innovations. But innovation by users has been foundto also be an important part of innovative activity in the economy. In this Paperwe explore the impact of users as a source of innovation on product...