Businesses invest in developing information systems resources to gain competitive advantages. Literature has demonstrated the requirement of strategic alignment in converting these competitive advantages into sustained superior business performance. The knowledge of information systems strategic orientation and its relationship with business performance will enable these businesses to fine tune...

Victor A. Sposito Section Leader, Spatial Sciences PIRVic, Landscape Systems Science Department of Primary Industries, Victoria. AUSTRALIA [email protected] Ray Wyatt Associate Professor School of Anthropology, Geography and Environmental Studies (SAGES) University of Melbourne Christopher J. Pettit Statewide Leader, Spatial Sciences PIRVic Landscape Systems Science Department of Pr...

Two outranking methods, ELECTRE III and PROMETHEE II, commonly used as decision-aid in various environmental problems, and their applications to decision support for natural resources management are presented. These methods represent ‘the European school’ of multi-criteria decision making (MCDM), as opposed to ‘the American school’, represented by, for instance, the AHP method. On the basis of ...

distribution and allocation of resources is affected by factors such as values, norms, social stratifications, ideology, information, coercion, political challenges, and even external factors. this finding means that there is always a fundamental tendency to redirect resources toward political goals instead of public interests and development. because the resource structure is strongly influenc...