business and its main functions such as marketing has value regulations in islamic economy. the main purpose of this paper is the indicatation of islamic values in marketing mix decisions. to achieve this purpose , the islamic values in marketing mix decisions include product, price, promotion and place decisions emanated from quran and documented practices of the holy prophet (peace be upon hi...

•Rapid and radical technological developments in computers, telecommunication, and information sciences, particularly the explosive growth in the diffusion and impact of the Internet and intranets; •Globalization of business, including increased international competition and the emergence of regional and global customers and resource markets; •Continuing mergers, acquisitions, and strategic all...

This paper develops a new integrated evaluation and planning approach for implementing a given set of best practices in a prioritized and phased manner. The best practices are implemented for achieving lower-level business unit objectives and higher-level strategic goals of an organization. With a multiattribute decision making algorithm under the balanced scorecard (BSC) framework, a new evalu...

Abstract. Business value attainment should be a key consideration when designing software processes. Ideally they are structured to meet organizational business goals, but it is usually difficult to integrate the process and business perspectives quantitatively. This research uses modeling and simulation to assess process tradeoffs for business case analysis. A model for commercial software ent...

Enterprise Integration (EI) is essential to organisations wishing to fulfill broader business objectives related to e-business, customer relationship management (CRM), supply chain management (SCM) and business-to-business (B2B) commerce. This paper describes and presents the results of a study into practices for managing technical risk on EI projects. In the study, 21 managers participated in ...

Application of the database normalization theory and the principle of orthogonal design allows us to reduce data redundancy in relational/SQL databases and hence avoid certain update anomalies and simplify development of database applications. The normalized systems theory for achieving modular and highly evolvable systems has similar goals in case of distributing the tasks of a system between ...

We resurrect the question if improved business practices contributed to increased macroeconomic stability since the 1980s – the Great Moderation. While previous studies on the issue are limited to examining inventory management, we analyse the role of better supply chain management on enhancing firms’ ability to coordinate their production. By investigating ordering and backordering behaviour i...

Managers and researchers would benefit from both an understanding of the organizational practices that result in more featured e-commerce sites and an understanding of the particular features that contribute to firm performance. A Web-based survey of 458 managers of business-to-consumer e-commerce revealed that two organizational practices CEO commitment and planning generally resulted in more ...

A wide variety of organizational practices have been proposed to support the creation, storage and transfer of knowledge, yet it is often unclear how these practices relate to one another in their contribution to organizational performance. This study develops a categorization system for knowledge management practices based on two dimensions: the practices’ role in the problem-solving process, ...