The paper explores the challenges of integrating heterogeneous and complex information systems, highlighting the significant resources required for effective interlinking. It emphasizes the role of the semantic web in facilitating machine-to-machine communication by making web content comprehensible. Ontologies are presented as a key technology for capturing, inferring, and verifying knowledge, enabling a shared understanding among different agents within these systems. The research underscores the importance of semantic frameworks in advancing information management.
The study focuses on the role of Venture Capital Firms (VCFs) in technology commercialization, emphasizing their provision of private equity and managerial support to emerging companies. It introduces a novel analytical model, modified TOPSIS with objective weights (mTOPSISow), to objectively assess and compare the financial performance of VCFs. Analyzing five large German VCFs, the findings reveal significant performance discrepancies and highlight key Financial Performance Indicators (FPIs), aiding VCFs in identifying strengths and areas for improvement.
Dynamic capabilities (DCs) refer to a firm's abilities to continuously adapt
its resource base in order to respond to changes in its external environment.
The capability to change dynamically is crucial in business ecosystems that
are composed of a variety of actors. Amazon Web Services (AWS), the leader in
the cloud platform industry, is a promising cloud platform provider (CPP) to
show a high degree of dynamic capability fulfillment within its highly
fluctuating ecosystem. To date, the full scope of dynamic capabilities in
cloud platform ecosystems (CPEs) has not been fully understood. Previous work
has failed to deliver a combined perspective of explicit dynamic capabilities
in cloud platform ecosystems applied on an in-depth practical case. With our
mixed-method case study on the AWS ecosystem we deliver a thorough
understanding of its sensing, seizing and transforming capabilities. We
generate a set of strategy management frameworks that support our expectations
and lead to unexpected insights. We find out that AWS develops and holds a
large set of interacting dynamic capabilities incorporating a variety of
ecosystem actors in order to sustain tremendous customer value and
satisfaction. The thesis infers significant theoretical and practical
implications for all CPE actors, like partners, customers, investors and
researchers in the field of IT strategy management. Managers of all CPE actors
are encouraged to critically evaluate their own maturity level and complement
a CPP's DC explications in order to boost business by implementing sensing,
seizing, transforming and innovating capabilities.
