Determination of forage quality of plant species in natural habitats such as rangelands and deserts is one of the most important factors for grazing management of these ecosystems. For this purpose, the nutritional values of Calligonum comosum in three phenological stages (vegetative growth, flowering, and seedling) were determined in desert habitats located in the northeast of Kashan, Iran (in...

The Iberian viticultural regions are convened according to the Denomination of Origin (DO) and present different climates, soils, topography and management practices. All these elements influence the vegetative growth of different varieties throughout the peninsula, and are tied to grape quality and wine type. In the current study, an integrated analysis of climate, soil, topography and vegetat...

Software vendors and software service providers can no longer function without taking their software ecosystem into account. Software vendors presently face three challenges in regards to software ecosystems: (1) they require insight into software ecosystems, (2) they require insight into the possible survival strategies that exist for software ecosystem participants, and (3) they require an ov...

The importance of service has been a central topic of study regarding consumer behavior and market research. Good services make customers optimistic; subsequently, measuring the pros and cons of consumer vis-a-vis service to form the degree of customer idealism. Service idealism indicates a particular service measured via the degree of optimistic based on personalities. Service idealism is asso...

How to increase a client’s capability through outsourcing remains a problem. This papers draws on strategic management literature and the relational view to develop a theoretical model that explains the relationships between collaboration, agility, and outsourcing performance in software-as-a-service (SaaS) context. Collaboration are characterized as knowledge sharing and process alignment betw...

We study three corporate nonmarket strategies designed to influence the lobbying behavior of other special interest groups: (1) astroturf, in which the firm covertly subsidizes a group with similar views to lobby when it normally would not; (2) the bear hug, in which the firm overtly pays a group to alter its lobbying activities; and (3) self-regulation, in which the firm voluntarily limits the...

Current knowledge services enterprises have developed rapidly, and the core competitiveness lies in the tacit knowledge which is crux of the enterprises and the brain of employees, but is difficult to observe and disseminate. This paper is an account of the research conducted on the tacit knowledge process in knowledge services enterprises, considering the characteristics of the tacit knowledge...

Description The “KnowHow” project, partly funded by the EU Research Executive Agency project scaled up the existing OrganiK Knowledge Management platform (http://www.organik-project.eu) from the research prototype it was into an industrial-grade knowledge management platform as a service (KM-PaaS) that supports social business applications. LTC’s role as a project partner was to produce a final...

Software-as-a-Service providers have been growing fast while the contemporary research literature has neglected analysis of their business-critical marketing and sales processes. In this paper we collect the key factors characterizing how to market and sell SaaS to business customers into an eight dimensional model. We also use an explorative multi-case study to observe six SaaS providers and v...