infonet-economy

This paper analyzes the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the other hand, delegates authority to a manager with superior information. However, the manager can use her informational...

Mobile health systems extend the Enterprise Computing System (ECS) of the healthcare provider by bringing services to the patient anytime and anywhere. We propose a methodology for the development of such extended ECSs which applies a model-driven design and development approach augmented with formal Validation and Verification (V&V) to address quality and correctness and to...

This volume contains all accepted papers of the ERCIM Workshop on eMobility, which has been held in Coimbra, Portugal, on May 21, 2007. Papers from three main areas have been selected for the workshop. The workshop papers discuss several topics of the ERCIM eMobility working group, namely – Traffic engineering and mobility management – Wireless (sensor) networks – Pervasive computing...

Hovering information is a new concept denoting information that stays attached to a specific geographical location rather than to a specific host. As a result, when deployed over a mobile set of peers, hovering information than ”hovers” from host to host in order to remain attached to its location. This paper describes the hovering information concept and its characteristics, and...

Awards are non-material, extrinsic compensation taking the form of orders, medals, decorations and prizes. They have been widely used in monarchies and republics, private organizations, not-for-profit and profit-oriented firms. Nevertheless, they have so far not received much attention. This paper develops empirically testable hypotheses, analysing the determinants of the supply of...

Management by Objectives (MbO) wird definiert als Synthese von Zielsetzung, Partizipation bei Zielvereinbarungen und Feedback über die Zielerreichung. Dieser Beitrag untersucht, wie sich die Ausgestaltung von MbO innerhalb von Leistungsvergütungssystemen auf die Motivation von Mitarbeitenden und Vorgesetzten auswirkt. Als Datenbasis dient eine Stichprobe von 342 Unternehmen in der...

In diesem Buch werden ausgewählte Ergebnisse zweier Studien zum Verhältnis von Mittelstand und Mitbestimmung vorgestellt. Ausgangspunkt der Fragestellung ist die Beobach-tung, dass im Betriebsverfassungsrecht zwar für Unternehmen ab fünf Beschäftigten ein Be-triebsrat möglich ist, ein solcher aber in der überwiegenden Zahl der betreffenden Betriebe nicht existiert. Die Gründe dafür...

Given the rising importance of the global media and the relative unwillingness of democratic publics to accept casualties in war, decision makers have increasingly relied on the strategic dissemination of rhetoric in order to justify military engagements. They "talk intervention", that is, they justify foreign engagements in terms of an emerging global norm that finds the...