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17
Nov
2009

Distributed Java Mobile Information System

Communications of the IBIMA
Technology is now everywhere; integrated into our everyday objects and activities. Mobile computers and devices are now widely affordable and powerful enough. Because of that, developments of mobile applications become a phenomenon today. Mobile applications could be used both to connect people with each other,…
15
Nov
2009

Innovation and Research and Development Important Factors Related to The Nations Competitiveness: The Case of European Economies

Communications of the IBIMA
This article attempts to verify empirically the argument that innovation capabilities and research and development activities are important in explaining the discrepancies registered between the nations, in terms of competitiveness. In order to approach in an explicit manner the relation between innovation and competitiveness, it…
12
Nov
2009

The Role of Knowledge Management in Enhancing the Competitiveness of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)

Communications of the IBIMA
Knowledge is one of the enterprise’s most important assets that influence its competitiveness. One way to capture an enterprise’s knowledge and make it available to all its members is through the use of knowledge management practices. This paper discusses the importance of knowledge management (KM)…
11
Nov
2009

Analyses of foreign portfolio investment at Bucharest Stock Exchange in Global Financial Crisis

IBIMA Business Review
The globalisation of financial markets, facilitated by new technology, under which a shock in one region is rapidly transmitted to other centres all over the globe, had ensured that, in less than a year, the USA financial crisis has spread across the continents, including countries…
10
Nov
2009

Contract Cheating: A New Phenomenon in Cyber-Plagiarism

Communications of the IBIMA
Contract Cheating is a new phenomenon, which is becoming an issue of concern at educational institutions in the UK, USA and Western Europe. Contract cheating is a form of academic dishonesty in which a student would pay someone (a contractor) to complete a given piece…
05
Nov
2009

How Travel Agency Survive in e-Business World?

Communications of the IBIMA
This paper provides certain degree of analysis on the benefits that leverage from the use of new technologies in the Travel Industry. Besides the concerns about what technology can do for travelers, we also address the  pressures for changes, the potential impacts on different category…
01
Nov
2009

Chief Information Officer’s activities and skills in Portuguese large companies

Communications of the IBIMA
The activities and skills of the information systems manager evolved extraordinarily in the last half century, from the technician who managed an operational function with a limited importance to the organization, to the position chief information officer, now responsible for a department on which depends…
31
Oct
2009

Project Marketing Implementation and Its Link with Project Management and Project Portfolio Management

Communications of the IBIMA
This paper intends to propose a research attempting to contribute new knowledge to the field of project marketing and find a home in the realm of enterprise level management. We will discuss different worldviews adopted toward the field of project marketing. The first perspective corresponds…
29
Oct
2009

The Evolution of the ICT Sector in Egypt — Partnership4Development

Communications of the IBIMA
Emerging information and communication technology (ICT) is setting the pace for a changing, competitive and dynamic global marketplace and representing an enabling platform for business and socioeconomic development in the 21st century. In that respect, developing nations are urged to keep pace regularly with the…
27
Oct
2009

Analysis of Corporate Environmental Reports using Statistical Techniques and Data Mining

Communications of the IBIMA
Measuring the effectiveness of corporate environmental reports, it being highly qualitative and less regulated, is often considered as a daunting task. The task becomes more complex if comparisons are to be performed. This study is undertaken to overcome the physical verification problems by implementing data…