GRK 517: Business Aspects of Loosely Coupled Systems and Electronic Business

新的电子媒体，如互联网，使有效和详细的沟通，不受地点和时间的限制。它们是能够在不同地点的合作伙伴合作中生产甚至复杂产品的先决条件。在这种情况下，公司可以集中精力于各自的核心能力，在一个松散的公司系统内生产和销售其产品，这些公司作为沿着价值链的伙伴一起工作。研究培训小组的研究计划涵盖了这些松散耦合系统的成功管理的管理方面。其目的是调查，如何松散耦合系统的特点，他们有哪些重要性，他们是如何创建和发展，他们是如何监督和控制，特别是如何激励成员合作。关于组织方面，如何进行专业化和协调是令人感兴趣的。在功能方面，将审查技术知识是如何产生的，以及产品或服务的生产和销售是如何设计的。关于财务标准，将调查如何为共同项目筹资，以及如何将成果归功于合作伙伴。通过对工作条件的心理调查和对法律框架的调查，这些观点得以完善。所有这些研究主题的重点都是松散耦合系统特别成功的条件。

New electronic media, e.g. the Internet, enable efficient and detailed communication independent of location and time restrictions. They are the prerequisite for being able to produce even complex goods in a co-operation of partners at different locations. Under these conditions companies can concentrate on their respective core competencies and produce and market their products within a loosely coupled system of companies working together as partners along the value chain. The research program of the research training group covers managerial aspects of the successful management of these loosely coupled systems. The aim is to investigate, how loosely coupled systems are characterised, which importance they have, how they are created and developed, how they are supervised and controlled, and in particular how the members are motivated to co-operate. With regard to organisational aspects it is of interest how specialisation and co-ordination are carried out. With respect to functional aspects it is to be examined, how technological knowledge is produced and how production and sales of products or services are designed. With respect to financial criteria it is to be investigated, how the financing of common projects is to take place and how results can be attributed to the partners. These perspectives are completed by psychological investigations of the conditions of work and investigations of the frame given by law. The focus within all these research topics is on conditions under which loosely coupled systems are particularly successful.