Firms outsourcing services for information technologies (IT) to external providers produce more efficiently than firms which render IT services themselves. Moreover, employees who…
It is often asserted that the costs of apprentices considerably exceed their productivity. However, in comparison to the alternative to hire unskilled or semi-skilled employees, this…
In the future, banks will strengthen their focus on branches as distribution channels. In particular, branches will offer more counselling to their customers. To attract customers to…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany declined in April 2008 by 8.7 points and now stands at minus 40.7 points after minus 32.0 points in the previous month. This is…
About one third of the companies in the economic sector IT-related service providers use at least one social software application for (their) internal or external communication with…
In Germany the business situation of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) service providers, comprising enterprises of the branches software and IT-services,…
The Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim, increased its earnings in the business year 2007. The earnings rose to 14.72 million Euros and thus notably exceeded…
China’s share of the international M&A market has markedly increased since the turn of the century. Both the value and the number of transactions in which Chinese enterprises…
In the German banking sector, outsourcing of business processes will increase further within the next five years. Especially the outsourcing of payment transactions and research has…