Category: Allgemein

Background Technology is a key component in the emergence of the commercial sharing economy and community-oriented collaborative economy initiatives. Housing cooperatives, community gardens, food coops, tool libraries, skill swapping arrangements and other citizen initiatives use digital technologies for collaboration, communication and coordination purposes, and are included under the same umbrella of the collaborative economy. In…
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The needs-oriented design and the competent use of information systems play an increasingly important role in modern economic life. This is not only true for companies and their business information systems, which have been a central research area of business informatics for a long time. The diffusion of IT artifacts in society is also leading…
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The penetration of IT artefacts into society leads not only to changes in the world of work (“industry 4.0”), but also to a change in private households, for example in the digitisation of consumer practices. The classic consumer fields of nutrition, housing and mobility are increasingly being penetrated by “smart” digital services and devices: online…
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