It is argued that construction is an important sector of the Welsh economy in terms of employment, wages and growth. Key competence and capacity issues have arisen, however, due to large contracting firms concentrating on core activities and subcontracting peripheral activities to Small...

Portfoliomanagement ist ein Bereich innerhalb der Wirtschaftswissenschaft; der traditionsgemäß nicht nur Wissenschafter interessiert und für den es deshalb umfangreiche Literatur für verschiedene Leserkreise gibt. Es ist deshalb wichtig, dass niveauvolle wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse nicht...

Increasingly, funding of academic research is carried out through the support of collaboration, rather than through single awards to a sole grant holder. The practice is well supported by evidence that larger, network-based research achieve high quality while leading to a number of capacity...

AbstractThe objective of this paper is to analyse the dynamics of networks in which new knowledgeemerges and through which it is exchanged. Our conjecture is that the structure of a networkcannot be divorced from the dynamics of the knowledge underpinning its activities. In so doing welook...

Measuring organizations’ readiness for collaboration and accordingly knowledge managementhas been a topic for years. With the emergence of Web 2.0 and its new possibilities for moreeffective collaboration, it has become increasingly relevant to determine the maturity of anorganization in...

Der Begriff e-Science (electronic oder auchenhanced science) hat inzwischen Eingangin die Wikipedia gefunden, er bezeichnet eine„kollaborative Forschung, die auf der Basiseiner umfassend digitalen Infrastruktur vollzogenwird“ und umfasst unter anderem die BereicheWissensmanagement,...

Die Erstellung von Software zur Unterstützung betrieblicher Abläufe wird in zunehmendem Maßekomplexer. Da der Erstellungsprozess in der Softwareindustrie traditionell einer Werkstatt- bzw. Einzelfertigungentspricht, erfordert die stetig steigende Nachfrage nach betrieblicher Software und...

Can added value be obtained from better collaboration between oil companies and contractors? The topic is addressed by analysing organisational patterns, contracts and compensation formats.Specific issues raised in this paper include the following questions. Are adjustments needed to contractual...

This study examines the relationship between the diffusion of IT and changes in collaborationpatterns across institutional and national borders. To undertake the research, the authorsmatch an explicit measure of institutional IT adoption (domain names, e.g. www.umsl.edu)with institutional data...