Like any emerging field, eBusiness is changing fast and in so doing it is changing the way businesses formulate their strategies and conduct their business through realisation of those strategies. This paper identifies issues involved in the formulation of eBusiness strategy, steering towards defining the process in object terms, proceeding to develop a framework encompassing the eBusiness stra...

We want to find the optimal strategy for displaying advertisements e.g. banners, videos, in given locations at given times under some realistic dynamic constraints. Our primary goal is to maximize the expected revenue in a given period of time, i.e. the total profit produced by the impressions, which depends on profit-generating events such as the impressions themselves, the ensuing clicks and ...

Servitization can be considered as a shift from selling products to selling an integrated combination of products and services that deliver value in use. The concept embraces service-led competitive strategy, providing increased revenue stream and profit margins, and an opportunity to differentiate from products originating from lower cost economies. This paper aims to report the state-of-the-a...

In this paper, we develop conjectures for understanding how information technology (IT) strategy and IT investments jointly influence profitability and the market value of the firm. We view IT strategy as an expression of the dominant strategic objective that the firm chooses to emphasize, which can be revenue expansion, cost reduction, or a dualemphasis in which both goals are pursued. Using d...

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This paper provides two-stage estimates of the economic impact of Indian gaming on tribal members. Gaming increases income among tribal members in all areas and increases employment, by reducing the number of out of the labor force, in rural areas. © 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.