The present conceptual paper is an attempt to provide a Value-Based Business Approach (VBBA) to product line software engineering. It argues that Product line software engineering should be seen as a system and considered as a means towards the end of appropriating more and more value for the business firm; contingent upon the fact that it provides value to customer and customer’s customers ope...

It is essential for corporate social responsibility that staff can trust its leaders. This paper argues that trust in leaders depends on the relationship between the leader’s values, words and actions. If they are in line, employees can trust the leader. If they are not, distrust prevails. Five alternative relationships between values, words and actions can be identified: (1) values = words = a...

1 DCT Image Steganography Analysis for Privacy Preserving Data Mining; Sahar A. El-Rahman Ismail, Benha University, Cairo, Egypt and Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Dalal Al Makhdhub, Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Amal A. Al Qahtani, Princess Nora bint Abdul Rahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Ghadah A. Al Shabanat, Princes...

Information Technology has brought significant business benefits to organizations. IT has allowed greater information sharing within and across firms leading to performance improvements. However, a comprehensive understanding of how information sharing beyond firm boundaries results in business value for the firm and what factors affect the resulting business value is still lacking in both rese...

Since 20 years, many traditional firms transform their orientation from products to services, among them also many potential SAP partners, competitors and customers. Powered by globalization, competition, and the Internet, that process happens globally and at accelerating speed. It breaks existing product supply chains and transforms them into a volatile network of collaborating businesses – th...