Lamarck has left many legacies for future generations of biologists. His best known legacy was an explicit suggestion, developed in the Philosophie zoologique (PZ), that the effects of use and disuse (acquired characters) can be inherited and can drive species transformation. This suggestion was formulated as two laws, which we refer to as the law of biological plasticity and the law of phenoty...

Modern organizations are constantly facing new challenges regarding the reengineering of their business departments and processes. By the term Business Process we mean the profile of specific methods that can be employed to perform specific business tasks. In general, each Business Process is uniquely tailored to the organization it applies. Therefore, the resolution of a Business Process relat...

The notion of weakly quasi continuous functions introduced by Popa and Stan ]. In this paper, the authors obtain the further properties of such functions and introduce weak* quasi continuity which is weaker than semi continuity [2] but independent ofweak quasi continuity.

Although enterprise imaging and workflow systems provide distinct business benefits, selection and standardization of a single system or strategy is complicated by the plethora of products available and the diversity of business applications. This article's methodology provides a framework for evaluating imaging and workflow systems along two key parameters: functionality in terms of an organiz...

The balanced scorecard (BSC) provides an enterprise view of an organization’s overall performance. It integrates financial measures with other key performance indicators around customer perspectives, internal business processes, and organizational growth, learning, and innovation. The strategy planning is a virtual necessity for business activities, and this paper presents the use of the analyt...

This paper considers the impact of ERP implementations upon the role of management accountants, upon management accounting in general, and upon business processes. It does so in the context of the perceived success of the ERP implementation. A postal questionnaire was circulated to almost 700 management accountants working in large UK-based organisations. It finds that under successful ERP impl...

Thomas H. Naylor is Professor of Economics and Business Administration a t the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. He is also Director of the Center for Corporate Economics and Strategy at Duke and Managing Director of The Naylor Group, a management consulting group which specializes in strategic planning. He was' the founder of SIMPLAN Systems, Inc., and served as its president for ni...

It is appropriate for the IS field to examine the suitability of its practices in light of the complexity of developing electronic business systems. Research shows that planning and developing business-tobusiness electronic trading systems (ETS) is fraught with difficulties concerning the priorities and power of individual organisations. This paper evaluates the usefulness of Triple Loop Learni...