The aim of this paper is to understand the extent of e-business utilisation in the horticulture supply chain, an area where there is little research coverage. To achieve this, we assess the current and planned adoption of e-business technologies and functions. Data were collected through a survey of Australian horticulture growers, service providers and industry associations. The findings indic...

A considerable body of literature has emerged in recent years that has documented the increasing importance of innovative practices in UK small firms. Much of this literature has developed in response to reports of under-performance by UK firms in innovative practices compared with its competitors. This paper asserts an inextricable link between innovation and entrepreneurship and marketing and...

In this paper the role of technology based knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) in commercialisation of knowledge is examined. The paper is written from the point of view of innovation management and the paper is based on a broad conception of innovation. In this conception innovations are embedded in social activities, there are many kind of innovations besides radical technological in...

Objectives. The aim of this paper is to describe an emerging business model that comes from the digitalization of the world of making tangible objects . Methodology. The creation of niche products , their production and sales in an open business model is analyzed through the literature review of both models and sustained by the analysis of practice cases. Findings. This new business model , def...

In the 1990s, the broad diffusion of the internet allowed firms such as Amazon, eBay, and Google to invent new digital business models. Since then, research has formalized recurring configurations as digital business model types, still frequently being used to analyze existing business models and develop new ones. Now, the next wave of digital transformation – enabled by ongoing improvements in...

A key issue for strategic ICT use concerns the levels of awareness within firms of the value and opportunities created by the use of this technology. With the Internet offering access to global flows of information, it is often argued that buyers have an increased opportunity to compare firms and products, and that even small firms are now operating in a global marketplace. However, the uneven ...

background and purpose : there has been no report in which preoperative evaluation of adc for prediction of post therapeutic outcome was presented. the aim of our study was to retrospectively evaluation the use of the apparent diffusion coefficient (adc) for the prediction of malignancy and the outcome of malignant astrocytic tumors. methods: we reviewed mri of 26 male and 14 female patients wi...

Introduction In August of 2011 Hewlett Packard, the world’s largest seller of PCs, confirmed it was looking to sell off its personal computing business—possibly getting out of the hardware game altogether and dropping its tablet and smartphone operations as well. This event along with IBM’s decision in 2004 to sell its PC business line to Lenovo, a China-based firm, is a harbinger that the low-...

in today’s turbulent world, the continuity of criticalactivities in the event of disruptions, and also fast recovery and return tobusiness as usual, are vital for sustainable success of companies. maintainingcontinuous delivery of critical business processes in the event of disruptions isa matter of business continuity. business continuity management system (bcms)is concerned with the developme...

Individual consumers in the household sector increasingly develop products, services and processes, their discretionary time without payment. Household innovation is becoming a pervasive phenomenon, representing significant share of activity any economy. Such emerges from personal needs or self-rewards, distinct complementary to producer innovations motivated by commercial gains. In this introd...