Advancements in mobile technologies leverage the potential of m-business to impact organizational performance. This study aims at identifying the determinants of m-business usage and its impact on the firm’s performance. The Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE), Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) and Resource-Based View (RBV) theories ground this research’s conceptual model for assessing the va...

Venture capitalists typically require that you can explain the business model in the time it takes the lift to get to the tenth floor. Implementation typically takes years. There is a disproportionate large amount of focus on what constitutes an innovative new business model compared to implementation since most e-business failures are attributed to failures in implementation. Obviously, there ...

Business agility has been studied by researchers since the beginning of 1990s. With the increased diffusion of information technology (IT) in business, IT is often been brought up as a factor pushing for agility as well as being a potential enabler for agility. As a result, IT organisations need not only to better understand business agility but also their own agility and their role in promotin...

business sustainability in all dimensions of economic, governance, social, ethical, and environmental (egsee) performance is gaining acceptance as many global stock exchanges either encourage or require their listed companies to issue sustainability reports and investors worldwide demand sustainability performance information. more than 8, 000 companies worldwide are disclosing various egsee di...

Abstract This article analyzes the implementation of General Law for Micro and Small Business by municipalities in São Paulo. The theory policy diffusion was used to study process adopting this public different contexts coercion. presents theoretical discussions on mechanism “coercion” answers question: what is influence vertical coercion Paulo? survival analysis technique applied identify expl...

Today, business intelligence system (BIS) is universally considered as an essential tool to aid business decision making process. There is consensus that BIS has significant effects on predicting current and prospective views of business operations. These effects will only be realized if, and when, BIS are widely spread and used. An imperative study of BIS adoption theories is crucial in order ...

The wide diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT) over the last few decades has modified the way in which individuals and institutions interact and conduct social and business activities. We analyze the importance of a firm’s information transparency, defined as the degree of completeness of information, regarding their own business activities, provided by each company to t...

The growing adoption of IT systems to support business activities, and the consequent capability to monitor the actual execution of business processes, has brought to the diffusion of useful business analysis monitoring (BAM) tools, and of reasoning services standing on top of them. However, in the majority of real settings, due to the different degrees of abstraction and to information hiding,...