Das vorliegende Diskussionspapier behandelt die Verbindung von einem höheren Grad internationaler, konzerninterner Verflechtungen und der Notwendigkeit von Auslandsentsendungen des Managements.

The idea of integrating users into the design and production process is a promising strategy for companies being forced to react to the growing individualization of demand. While there is a huge amount of managerial literature on mass customization, empirical findings are scarce.(...)

Even though the question as to whether optimal organizational structures exist has been asked repeatedly, organization theory has not been able to answer it in general form. Over time, several useful heuristic principles to direct the structuring of organizationshave emerged.(...)

...The present paper leaves this concern with banks andmarkets aside and instead proposes to focus attention on the industrial corporation as a financial institution in its own right.

The administration of higher education becomes a management of change. Process models, that are build by the employees themselves can help to control this challenge. To do so one needs a methodology, that is effective and easy to use at the same time. Using a special cooperation model it can be...