The globalization of the software market leads to crucial problems for software companies. More competition between software companies arises and leads to the force on companies to develop ever newer software products in ever shortened time interval. Therefore the time to market for software systems is shortened and obviously the product life cycle is shortened too. Thus software companies shor...

INTRODUCTION The market for logistics services is characterized by changing customer demands regarding quality and higher service levels (Wagner 2008) (e.g. just-in-time delivery). An increasing number of customers requests for new and valuable services (for instance the provision of real-time data by using of Tracking & Tracing Systems (Arndt 2008)). Therefore, the competitiveness of Logistics...

Introduction Telework – Context and trends The telework concept provides answers to important questions raised by changes in the social, economic and technological environment of today. The following are some of the typical developments that are characteristic of those changes [10, 11, 12]: • Information and knowledge based work increases. • New concepts to improve the companies’ business proce...

The supply chain has become a key element of increasing the productivity and competitiveness companies. To achieve this, it is essential to implement strategy based on use technologies, which depends knowledge scope impa

Industry and academia alike are increasingly becoming aware of the fact that innovation does not take place in isolated cells or functions within the firm. During the last the years the term open innovation has emphasized the importance of internal and external collaboration in order to increase the competitiveness of companies. Although the idea of involving internal and external actors in the...

Networks of organizations can improve the competitiveness of their member companies. Over the past years, the IS group of the University of Siegen has performed a series of research activities to foster networking among companies in the Siegen-Wittgenstein region. Our research covers a variety of activities such as: networking events, internship programs and joint research projects together wit...

This paper takes the issue of the financialization of competitiveness as being concerned with the link between increased financialization and the reduced autonomy of company management. The paper understands financialization to mean the increased ability to trade risk, resulting from changes in the structure of financial markets and in the financial market actors active in those markets. The pa...

The SHIP project is an Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliance whose main goal is to strengthen the knowledge triangle between universities, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) and innovation support organizations. The project entails to set-up of 4 Innovation Alliances in 5 countries (Ireland + UK, Germany, Spain, Romania). The goal of these alliances is to consolidate cooperation as a key feature o...