Aufgrund zunehmender Korrelationen zwischen traditionellen Anlageklassen, eines historisch niedrigen Zinsniveaus und hoch volatiler Aktienkurse rückten alternative Investments in den letzten Jahren zunehmend in den Fokus von Investoren. Timo Klett führt eine umfassende Analyse von Rohstoffinvestments durch, indem er die Renditen...

The traditional project coaching takes place mostly in a number of face-to-face coaching sessions. However, under conditions of time pressure in IT projects, a physical presence of coaches could form a bottleneck. These facts led to the idea of using Internet technologies to support  the project coaching. The benefits of the web based...

In open innovation scenarios, firms are able to profit from technological developments that take place beyond the legal boundaries. However, in the absence of contract-based vertical command chains, such as in the case of open source software (OSS), it is difficult for firms to obtain control over the innovation project's trajectory. In...

Performance-aware Component-based Software-Development A characteristic of an engineering discipline is the ability to predict the impact of design decisions. For example, in civil engineering accurate predictions of the impact of adding an additional ?oor on a construction’s statics are available. Having a similar ability in software...