Master's Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject Business economics - Business Management, Corporate Governance, grade: Sehr gut, Vienna University of Economics and Business (Entrepreneurship & Innovation), language: English, abstract: For small firms, knowledge leakage, loss and theft are counted among the greatest risks in inter-firm collaborations. SMEs are more vulnerable, because they suffer from a number of structural disadvantages when collaborating with larger companies, and yet, they need to collaborate with external partners to overcome their lack of resources. Therefore, this...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Informatik - Angewandte Informatik, Note: Sehr gut (Bestnote), Universitat Wien (Institut fur Knowledge and Business Engineering), Veranstaltung: Electronic Commerce, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In dieser Arbeit wird das Thema Tagging im Electronic Commerce im Zusammenhang mit einem von Studenten erarbeitetem Projekt - dem ChinaCollaborator - in drei Kapiteln: "Einfuhrung in die Thematik," "ChinaCollaborator - das Projekt" und "Tagging im Electronic Commerce" erortert. Im ersten Kapitel werden die wesentlichen Grundlagen und das notwendige...

For small firms, knowledge leakage, loss and theft are counted among the greatest risks in inter-firm collaborations. SMEs are more vulnerable, because they suffer from a number of structural disadvantages when collaborating with larger companies, and yet, they need to collaborate with external partners to overcome their lack of resources.Therefore, this study investigates how SMEs can most effectively protect critical knowledge in collaborations with external partners, for that they can prevent knowledge loss, leakage and theft, while maximizing the performance of the collaboration.This book...