Hospitals have been making significant investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) for long time. Therefore it is important to investigate their effects on various dimensions of hospitals’ performance, such as their innovation performance. However, there is a lack of empirical investigations of the impact of ICT on innovation in this important industry using large datasets. ...

The symptoms of stress are becoming more diversified in the IT labor market. IS employees need help in learning how to manage stress so as to reduce the strain in their work-life. The stress issue is also crucial to organizations through controlling stressors to reduce the levels of stress for maintaining better job performance. The purpose of this research is to study the effects of stressors ...

This case presents the story of TutorVista, an ebusiness organization based in India that provides online tutoring services to students in different parts of the world. TutorVista had been able to meet growth expectations and gain recognition in the lucrative private tutoring market because of its innovative technology platform and business model. As a fledgling organization charting new territ...

This paper reports on research carried out into e-business evaluation in an Australian context. The main research instrument was a questionnaire based on a similar study in the United States, which was adapted to give an Australian dimension. The survey was sent to e-business managers in a random sample of Australian companies. The paper reports some preliminary results from the analysis of the...

Building on multiple theoretical perspectives, we examined how e-business capability moderates the association of different dimensions of market orientation (i.e., customer, competitor, and interfunctional coordination orientation) and firm performance (i.e., financial, operational, and customer service performance). We tested hypotheses using survey data from senior executives in China. Our fi...

This study proposes a comparative framework for contrasting e-business growth models within the context of small and medium enterprises. Growth models act both as a mechanism for understanding e-business growth and as an aid to implementation and policy development. This study reviews the performance of 65 e-business growth models, which are identified via perspective, stages and content. Furth...

With the advance of wireless technology in recent years, issues of mobile (m-) business transformation become more important for researchers and practitioners. Subsequent to e-business transformation, mobile technology creates another opportunity of innovation inside and outside businesses. However, there is still limited information for m-business transformation. Hence, this study investigates...

In recent years there has been a remarkable increase in information exchange between organizations due to changes in market structures and new forms of business relationships. The increase in the volume of business-to-business (B2B) transactions has contributed significantly to the expanding need for electronic systems that could effectively support communication between collaborating organizat...

The rapid evolution of the Internet as a means of communicating the information has attracted the attention of the advertising and marketing industries which allows a very rapid dispersal of information from the producers to the potential buyers in different parts of the world. Such new terms and concepts have emerged: e-business (electronic business), e-commerce (electronic commerce) and e-mar...

Business intelligence is one of the tools of IT in business and Information systems for management have been just developed theoretically, and have never fulfilled the demands of organizations, practically. The establishment and marketing of electronic insurance demands the readiness of tools and the foundation of IT. Business intelligence provides the managers with a collection of tools, techn...