On Network Industries -- Business Webs: Decomposable, Modular Organisations -- Business Web Growth Cases -- Towards a Theory of Business Web Growth -- Conclusion.Networks of firms have been in the focus of management research for several years. Recently, special attention has been paid to so-called business webs. Business webs are networks of firms which provide complements to a common product …
Edwin Mansfield: An Appreciation -- Innovation, Technology, and Economic Growth -- Flexibility and Endogenous Innovation -- Schumpeter and the Micro-foundations of Endogenous Growth -- Technology and Technology Transfer: Mansfieldian Inspirations and Subsequent Developments -- Welfare Implications of User Innovation -- Underinvestment in Public Good Technologies -- Evaluating Public Sector R&D …
E-Content in Europe: Dimensions of an Emerging Field -- E-Content Market in Europe An Overview -- The State of Digital Media Service Business -- Paid Content: From Free to Fee -- Content Applications: Selected Cases -- The Impact of E-Learning -- Scientific Publishing: A European Strength -- Mobile Games: An Emerging Content Business Area -- Cross-Media on the Advance -- User-Centric Content Pr…
Broadband and why it matters -- Competition in broadband markets -- New entry and market outlook -- Analysis of competition in broadband markets -- Appropriate policies for broadband regulation -- Conclusion.Broadband is a key enabler of the information society, increasing productivity and competitiveness across all sectors of the economy. Unlike traditional n- rowband connections, broadband pr…
the Agile Enterprise -- Emergence of the Agile Enterprise -- Business Process Automation -- Services Are the Language and Building Blocks of an Agile Enterprise -- The on Demand World -- Innovation Management in an Agile Enterprise -- Agile Enterprises and Offshore Outsourcing -- Adaptive Innovation Management -- The DNA of Organizational Agility -- Agile to Adaptive -- Implementing the Agile E…
Editors’ Introduction -- Measuring Science -- Econometric Approaches to the Analysis of Productivity of R&D Systems -- Indicators for National Science and Technology Policy -- Keeping the Gates of Science Journals -- S&T Indicators for Policy Making in a Changing Science-Society Relationship -- Paradigms and Trajectories of Technological Opportunities 1890–1990 -- Science on the Periphery: …
to Software Product Line Engineering -- A Framework for Software Product Line Engineering -- Overview of the Example Domain: Home Automation -- Product Line Variability -- Principles of Variability -- Documenting Variability in Requirements Artefacts -- Documenting Variability in Design Artefacts -- Documenting Variability in Realisation Artefacts -- Documenting Variability in Test Artefacts --…
Digital Cities and E-Government: The Institutional Perspective -- E-Government: European Commission Policies and Activities -- TeleCities: The Role of City Networks in E-Government Processes -- The Italian Approach to Local E-Government -- Experience and Initiatives in Europe -- E-Democracy: The Participation of Citizens and New Forms of the Decision-Making Process -- Web Service Portals: Trans…
Holistic Approaches to Collaborative Networks -- Breeding Environments Management -- VO Creation and Frameworks -- VO Creation and Partner Selection -- VO Creation and Optimization -- Trust Management -- VO Management -- VO Coordination -- Network Benefit Analysis -- Performance Measurement -- Performance Management -- Modeling and Meta-Modeling -- Process Modeling -- Professional Virtual Commu…
Why Agility Now? -- Agility in Fours: IT Diffusion, IT Infrastructures, IT Development, and Business -- Information Technology Diffusion Research: An Interim Balance -- Agility in Information Systems Development: A Three-Tiered Framework -- Agile IT Diffusion -- Navigating Software Process Improvement Projects -- Mapping Social Networks in Software Process Improvement: An Action Research Study …