The aim of this paper is to use historical insights from modern commerce as entry points to examine the macro-level phenomena associated with electronic commerce (EC). Commerce in its modern form first appeared in early 13 century Italy where conducive political conditions existed. Trade facilitated the exchange of goods, thereby enhancing the efficiency of processes between production and cons...

Business Process Management (BPM) enables a company to successfully align business practices with strategic objectives and increase business performance. Functional silos or roadblocks disappear and the company is better positioned to satisfy all stakeholders – customer, owners, and employees (by Robert M. Curtice, 1997). Over the years, many organizations have tried to find pathways to establi...

Based on 7,939 business units in 36 companies, this study used meta-analysis to examine the relationship at the business-unit level between employee satisfaction-engagement and the business-unit outcomes of customer satisfaction, productivity, profit, employee turnover, and accidents. Generalizable relationships large enough to have substantial practical value were found between unit-level empl...

Employing instances from the agri-food sector and a Critical Theory approach, the concept and actions known as best practices are criticized. Developed in terms of the uses and ideological content of best practices, this critique is directed at probing the “alternative” dimension of this construct. The analysis is carried out though the review of texts that advocate best practices. It is argued...

This paper highlights and provides a more grounded foundation for Jordan's human resource management (HRM) concept. It examines four HRM practices: enrollment choice, preparation advancement, execution examination rewards advantage; what is more, associations these practices with social components, the universe of legislative issues, judicious characteristics, revelations recommend that in Jord...