This work studies the variance of the return over assets (ROA) of 1,664 Brazilian organizations between 1996 and 2003. This variance is divided into in factors associated with differences between business units, imdustries and economic conditions. The model is also calculated dividing the overall period into four year intervals so as to follow the evolution of the factors over the years. Result...

The world economic image has been changing. It has been a long time since the sole important resources of an organization were financial and physical. In the newly-emerged global economy, knowledge and information are accounted as the most significant resources in order to produce value. Obviously, as the demand for knowledge to reach success is increasing day by day, maintenance and enhancemen...

Today, any organization or economic enterprise, a method for systems integration application uses its collection and therefore can not never found a unique method that can meet the needs of system integration is in all organizations. With a proposed solution to the issue of pay .

Infrastructure is a means to an end: it is built, maintained and expanded in order to enable the functioning of society. Present infrastructure operation is characterised by: governance based on unmanaged growing demand, which is both inefficient and ultimately unsustainable; lack of integration of the end-users, in terms of the variety of their wants, needs and behaviours; separate and paralle...

Abstract Although citizenship behaviours can vary for each individual over the course of months, weeks, or even days, research has predominantly looked at this concept through a static lens. In paper, we combine between- and within-person level approach in examining circumstances under which people engage organizational towards organization (OCBO). Drawing from conservation resources theory, te...

The information universe provides the highest common framework found in all organizational information systems combining data models, business rules, organizational roles, and the members of an organization. Th,e conceptual model of development shows that a vertical dimension to design and implementation leads to an extensible and object oriented domain model. Extensibility and the object orien...