PUTTING ENVIRONMENTAL ACTORS CENTRE STAGE For Strategic Environmental Management Analysis (SEMA), the most crucial role in change towards sustainability is played by “environmental actors” i.e., those who are moved by specific environmental concerns and urge other actors on to change. The strategies they may use, the contexts and conditions in which they may succeed, are considered here to be t...

In the light of rapid development of technology/knowledge intensive firms arising from the emerging economy of China in recent time, this paper is aimed at developing an analytical framework, based on the institutional theory and resource-based view, to evaluate the drivers and antecedents of technology innovation among Chinese emerging multinational enterprises (MNEs). Use of case study approa...

A key aspect of cloud computing is the promise of infinite, scalable resources, and that cloud services should scale up and down on demand. This thesis investigates methods for dynamic resource allocation and management of services in cloud datacenters, introducing new approaches as well as improvements to established technologies. Virtualization is a key technology for cloud computing as it al...

Nowadays there are more than thirty maturity models in different knowledge areas. Maturity model is an area of interest that contributes organizations to find out where they are in a specific knowledge area and how to improve it. As Information Resource Management (IRM) is the concept that information is a major corporate resource and must be managed using the same basic principles used to mana...

Resilience is an umbrella concept with many different shades of meaning. The use of the term has grown over the past several decades to the point that by now, many disciplines have their own definitions and metrics. In this paper, we aim to provide a context and focus for linkages of resilience to natural resources management. We consider differences and similarities in resilience as presented ...

As the organization of high-performance computers becomes more complex, the task of managing resources on them becomes increasingly difficult. The software layers which include the operating system, the runtime system, and the compiler must now map applications to machine architectures that consist of multiple CPUs, several layers of cache, deep memory hierarchies, file systems, interconnects, ...

Decision support systems (DSS) have achieved considerable success in many areas of business activity. The type of semi-structured problem where DSS is successful frequently involves the management or configuration of vehicles or machines. While DSS has been used for human resource problems such as personnel scheduling, there have been fewer DSS applications in the area of personnel placement. T...

Resource information managers typically use fixed approaches to manage information. However fixed solutions to information management are complicated by the fact that computing environments are not all the same and even within a single computing environment the characteristics of the information and its access patterns may change over the lifetime of the system. These changes motivate this work...