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The adoption of mobile services has achieved a spectacular growth in many countries around the world. However, regulators in these countries are finding that existing regulatory frameworks are not suitable for dealing with these services. This paper employs qualitative evidence to investigate how regulation can…

In order to keep up with fierce competition in the forever distributed, global and virtual business world, big name companies like IBM, Toyota, etc. have ventured into exploiting the potential of Massively Multiplayer Online Role-playing Games (MMORPG) technology, via Second Life, to reinvent themselves. Investigating…

Enterprises embarking on the journey of transforming business face dilemma about balanced risk, effects of change and benefits of innovation. Effective management of large business transformation programs is necessary to minimize the negative impacts of the change. Business would need to focus on planning, performance…

In this paper, we investigate the possibility of using EGADP for protecting data in horizontally-distributed datasets. EGADP is a new advanced data perturbation method that masks confidential numeric attributes in original datasets while reproducing all linear relationships in masked datasets. It is developed for centralized…

Bankruptcy filings in the US have reached an all time high in recent years. But the European countries have been slow and less aggressive than USA. On the whole there is evidence more and more countries are reforming their bankruptcy laws, albeit at different rates and difference reasons.…

This paper examines the creation of customised Information Communication Technology (ICT) intensive collaborative learning spaces to facilitate effective teamwork and enhance communication and problem solving skills of students in Business degrees at Victoria University. A recent survey (2006) of business practitioners, HR managers, business alumni and academics,…

This study was undertaken with the purpose of investigating the effect of intranet utilization modes on effective intranet utilization at user level perspectives. In addition it also seeks to investigate the influence of effective intranet utilizations on individual effectiveness. Based on the analysis of 359…

It is increasingly evident that there is no one approach or methodology to software development that suits all types of software projects - even at the organizational level. While modern software methodologies offer advice on the development phases of software, they do not usually offer…

The public policy and e-government implementation issues of any country have a direct impact on the e-readiness of that country. It helps in creating and promoting public and private sectors to invest in the ICT field. The aim of this paper to explore the main…

The mathematical models of forecasting depend upon the managers conception regarding the actions development for long — term forecasting or for short — term forecasting. To this end, we distinguish two directions: an explorative one and a normative one. From the point of view of…