During past decades, services gained more and more importance as inputs into the production process of firms, not only in service sectors, but also in manufacturing industries. Additionally, firms nowadays…
Establishing a new firm is a complex process which comprises many tasks. A common assumption in the theoretical literature on entrepreneurship is therefore that interdisciplinarity is important for successfully…
Enterprise systems, i. e. company-wide packages of enterprise software for planning, calculating and managing business processes, are widely used in various industry branches throughout many countries. In…
Social software serves in particular the communication, cooperation and information sharing between individuals and includes applications like blogs, wikis or online communities. Common to all of these…
New firms are regarded to be of substantial importance for the development of an economy, especially for innovation, growth, and the creation of jobs. However, new firms also face a high risk of failure. Thus,…