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The competitive pressure in business environment has increased tremendously especially in the knowledge based economy. As a result, companies from various industries around the world have invested millions in embarking the Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) and Competitive Intelligence (CI) activities to manage information and knowledge…

The paper establishes the necessity for collaboration for effective supply chain management in the age of Internet. In a networked society where everything is connected, collaboration is the word visited and revisited every now and then. How can we collaborate to optimize resources efficiently? This…

Service failure and recovery is a well-established area of services research. Research has shown that service recovery is critically important from a managerial perspective in terms of maintaining customer relationships. Yet few firms excel at handling service failures. There is a growing number of managers…

Recently, due to the ever-increasing concern regarding the environment, the automotive industry has experienced a significant technological competition in the power-train. Focusing on how Corporate Social Responsibility issues can affect product innovation in a mature industry, this paper studies different technology strategies in sustainable vehicle…

The purpose of our paper is to catch some of the audit particularities in the e-commerce environment. The technological and economic development of the latest centuries resulted in the significant development of the electronic commerce, and the changes made in the manner of executing transactions…

Governments worldwide are faced with the challenge of transformation and the need to reinvent government systems in order to deliver efficient and cost effective services, information and knowledge through information and communication technologies. Development of Information and communication technologies catalyzed and led up to E-government.  A…

Geographical Bioinformatics Systems (GBS) represent the marriage between two distinct and well established fields, GIS & Bioinformatics.  Bioinformatics refer to the use of computers to handle biological information–that is, the use computers to store, compare, retrieve, analyze and predict the composition or structure of bio-molecules. …

ITIL is the most widely used IT framework in most organizations in the world now. Every public and private IT organization tries to adopt ITIL into its own business and implement it because there are a lot of different kinds of information and activities in…

Drawing from social perspectives, this proposed study reports factor analyses and regression results from two sample sets collected over time, and seeks to shed light on how social forces might affect the adoption behavior of rapidly growing mobile communication technology. On the one hand, similarities…

The study explores consumers’ adoption of Internet shopping in the context of tourism products in Britain. The key objective is to propose a model for the prediction of Internet shopping adoption integrating individual and technology characteristics.  Drawing upon Davis’ (1989) Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), the…