This open access book provides a broad range of insights on market engineering and information management. It covers topics like auctions, stock markets, electricity markets, the sharing economy, information and emotions in markets, smart decision-making in cities and other systems, and...

Article 20 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) gave consumers in the European Union the right to port their personal data between digital service providers. We critically assess the economic implications of this new right in the light of the extant economic literature and with a...

At the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), the Graduate School InformationManagement and Market Engineering (IME) which is financed by the GermanResearch Association (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG), offers an interdisciplinarydoctoral program on the economic, technological and legal...

Unternehmensportale sind in der Lage heterogene und verteilte Unternehmenssystemeund –daten zusammenzuführen, um so Prozessabläufe zu unterstützen odersogar zu automatisieren. Die Portaltechnologie birgt somit große Potentiale in Bezugauf Produktivitäts- und Effizienzsteigerungen. Der...

In this article we point at the large potentials that corporate community portals can have to support the business model of companies. In particular corporate community portals of the next generation are characterized by the integration of business intelligence tools which can facilitate or even...

Zur Unterstützung von Finanzprozessen setzt die Finanzabteilung der Bayer AG seit 2001 auf einePortallösung, die seitdem kontinuierlich erweitert wurde. Heute bietet das Portal heute über siebzigverschiedene Dienste für mehr als 2000 Mitarbeiter weltweit an. Bei der Weiterentwicklung des...

The long tail phenomenon has been heavily discussed in recentyears. What has been neglected so far is its striking relevance forelectronic services. Whereas consumers expectations about informationgoods are often vague and transient, their requirements are pronouncedand specific when it comes to...