Regarding to rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment it will become increasingly important for organizations to measure their performances appropriately. With respect to special characteristics of pharmaceutical industry and lack of reported performance measurement, this study tries to design an integrated performance measurement model for pharmaceutical companies. For gene...

nowadays, by the expansion of information technology in human life and dependence of business upon it, data protection, as one the most valuable and critical assets of the organization, has become the vital tool of modern industry and prerequisite for sustaining business process. in order to face the challenges and to take advantage of new opportunities brought forth by it advances we suggest o...

Recent years have witnessed the globalisation of many industries. Consequently, globally distributed and virtual teams have become increasingly common in many areas, for example, in new product development and information systems (IS) development. Achieving successful collaborations has become a key challenge for globally distributed organizations, and it is largely dependent on teams’ ability ...

E. Vinogradov, B. Leick and D. Assadi research the profound relations between digital entrepreneurship, sharing economy, disruptive innovations, artificial intelligence, blockchains, internet other variables. They point that “the concept of economy has become increasingly popular in past few decades response to major technology societal shifts. As revolution progresses, a dynamic change associa...

In service industries, companies increasingly need to rely on the performance of their service employees to become and stay truly competitive. Despite this viewpoint, most administrators do not believe that they can make competitive advantage in their organizations through employees. Therefore, the present paper aims to study the effect of employee branding on market share based on individual a...

Regarding to rapidly changing and highly competitive business environment it will become increasingly important for organizations to measure their performances appropriately. With respect to special characteristics of pharmaceutical industry and lack of reported performance measurement, this study tries to design an integrated performance measurement model for pharmaceutical companies. For gene...

Article history: Received 13 July 2015 Received in revised form 27 January 2016 Accepted 29 January 2016 Available online xxxx The predominant metaphor for secure computing today is modeled on ever higher, ever better layers of walls. This article explains why that approach is as outmoded for cyber security today as it became for physical security centuries ago. Three forces are undermining the...

We are witnessing an interesting era in the history of computing and information technology (IT). Computing, telephone and television on the one hand and data, voice and video on the other hand are converging. Internet, the World Wide Web and mobile computing have made IT truly global. IT has become pervasive – it is increasingly difficult for human beings to live their lives without encounteri...

Laitinen, Jouni On The Influence of National Culture on Knowledge Sharing Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2013, 78 p. Mathematical Information Systems, Master’s Thesis Supervisor(s): Pawlowski, Jan; Senoo, Dai (Tokyo Institute of Technology) In the global economy, innovations have become more important than ever. Knowledge sharing has been shown to improve both innovation capability and spe...

In today's increasingly network-driven world, one of the biggest challenges that are facing organizations is integration of technology with enterprise applications to coordinate and manage the activities of customers, partners, employees, suppliers and internal systems. An enterprise without effective integrated systems will find it difficult to think and act as quickly as the competition. This...