We examine the relationship between the directly observable indicator of new technology, ICT investment ratio, and skill upgrading by analysing changes in employment and wage structure of 25 Korean industrial sectors over the 1993-99 period. The results show that there has been little relationship between ICT diffusion and skill upgrading during the entire period of 1993-99. Meanwhile, the posi...

A power describes the ability of an agent to act in some way. While this notion of power is critical in the context of organisational dynamics, and has been studied by others in this light, it must be constrained so as to be useful in any practical application. In particular, we are concerned with how power may be used by agents to govern the imposition and management of norms, and how agents m...

In the context of large scale industrial installations, model checking often fails to tap its full potential because of a missing link between a system’s specification and its functional and non-functional requirements, like safety. Our work bridges this gap by providing a translation from the formal specification language Object-Z to the SMV model checker input language to combine their advant...

Inefficient product derivation practices can greatly diminish the productivity gains expected from a software product line approach. As a foundation for systematic and efficient product derivation a better understanding of the underlying activities in industrial product line development is required. We have developed a process framework that comprises important tasks product line stakeholders h...

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Businesses are deploying Public Key Infrastructures (PKIs) to support internal business processes, implement virtual private networks, and secure corporate assets. In addition, most businesses have industrial partnerships with other businesses for economic reasons. If these industrial alliances wish to exploit their internal security capabilities for businessto-business (B2B) electronic commerc...

This paper considers the reliable multi-product multi-vehicle multi-type link logistics network design problem (RMLNDP) with system disruptions, which is concerned with facilities locating, transshipment links constructing, and also allocating them to the customers in order to satisfy their demand on minimum expected total cost (including locating costs, link constructing costs, and also expect...

The digital world is making customer behavior visible and measurable. However, the relationship between e-marketing and sales is often elusive in businesses where transactions occur offline. The goal of this study is to describe how Web analytics can be exploited for linking e-marketing performance with industrial sales. The findings show that Web analytics (WA) enables an industrial company to...

the purpose of this article is to present the link among resource based theory, marketing strategy, and firms’ performance in order to propose integrative framework showing how the three constructs are linked. it is organized based on a review of academic literature on resource based theory and marketing strategy chronicled in major marketing journals up to december 2015. besides, the paper ref...