In today’s increasingly competitive and technology-driven business environment, ability to quickly adapt its business processes in response to both internal and external changes is a must for any organization. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), along with its programming models, is one strategic option to accomplish this. SOA enables an organization’s business to drive its information systems...

The review of existing human resource allocation models for a CPA firm shows that there are major shortcomings in the previous mathematical models. First, linear programming models cannot handle multiple objective human resource allocation problems for a CPA firm. Second, goal programming or multiple objective linear programming (MOLP) cannot deal with the organizational differentiation problem...

We address the question of how a firm’s current location in the space of technological possibilities constrain its search for technological improvements. We formalize a quantitative notion of distance between technologies — encompassing the distinction between evolutionary changes (small distance) versus revolutionary change (large distance) — and introduce a technology landscape into an otherw...

absTraCT The chapter discusses the use of business strategies for pure Internet firms. It separates the strategic choices and directions used for idea generation, during start-up, and beyond business or brand establishment. Corroborating much of the literature, it argues that traditional notions of strategy might be inappropriate for some dotcom firms due to the high level of complexity, speed ...

Business-to-business information technology systems (B2B technologies) are becoming increasingly important in B2B markets. Utilizing the concept of modularity, this paper clarifies the strategic implications of B2B technology and develops a theoretical structure to explain these outcomes. Five firms are studied in detail: Eastman Chemical, Cemex, Li & Fung, Agribuys and Dell. Our findings point...

Businesses often benefit by forming alliances with other firms but risk becoming dependent on their partners. We discuss two situations in which dependence may create serious problems: fi rst. if a partner shuts down and. second. if a partner forms a relationship with a new partner. We examine collaborative relationships fo rmed by businesses operating in the U.S. hospital software systems indu...

The Labor Market Return to an Attractive Face: Evidence from a Field Experiment We provide new evidence on the link between beauty and hiring practices in the labor market. Specifically, we study if people with less attractive faces are less likely to be contacted after submitting a resume. Our empirical strategy is based on an experimental approach. We sent fictitious resumes with pictures of ...

In practice, all option strategies are decided in advance, given the investor’s belief of the stock price. In this paper, instead of deciding in advance the most appropriate hedging option strategy, an LP problem is formulated, by considering all significant Greek parameters of the Black-Scholes formula, such as delta, gamma, theta, rho and kappa. The optimal strategy to select will be simply d...

In recent work, we proposed a simple functional language S-graph-n to study metaprogramming aspects of self-applicable online program specialization. The primitives of the language provide support for multiple encodings of programs. An important component of online program specialization is the termination strategy. In this paper we show that such a representation has the great advantage of sim...

We analyze whether noncooperative collusive equilibria are harder to sustain when individual demand levels are not fixed but are able to fluctuate. To do this, we extend a Bertrand-type model of price competition to allow for fluctuating market shares when prices are equal. We find that, the larger the market share fluctuations may be, the higher the discount factor should be to sustain a collu...