Proposals made by the German Hartz Commission (German unemployment benefit agency) cannot all be tarred with the same brush. Each module for innovation deserves separate consideration. Some modules seem to…
The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany falls by 25.7 points in August. It is now standing at 43.4 points compared with 69.1 points in the previous month. This is the largest decrease in two years.
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Businesses which have implemented group work, profit centres or flat hierarchies in the last several years have thereby been able to sustainably increase their productivity. Introducing a system in which…
The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) increases the productivity of service providers in Germany. The extent to which productivity increases, however, depends on the strategies used, and…
For more than two years, global share prices have been falling sharply. This loss in the value of shares seems to put consumers off spending, and is therefore damaging overall economic growth.
The optimistic expectations of service providers in the information economy have once again been disappointed in the second quarter of 2002. The rate of growth in turnover in this economic sector has slowed and…
The acceptance of E-Commerce for purchasing is relatively high amongst service providers in the information economy. Around 65 per cent of these businesses use the internet as a purchasing channel.
The balance sheet scandals of the US corporations Worldcom, Enron and Xerox have led to long-term uncertainty in the global stock market. In their quest to find some certainty in these rather uncertain times,…
The economic expectations of German analysts have so far been unaffected by the latest stock market decline. The ZEW Indicator of Economic Sentiment for Germany decreased by a slight 0.5 points in July compared…
