Organizations continue to deploy enterprise systems (ESs) to improve information flow, reduce costs, and increase operational efficiencies. Realization of these benefits can be enhanced if more is known about the preceding factors that enable transformation of ES data into successful outcomes. This study identifies the critical success factors (CSFs) that influence the process for transforming ...

Although large lectures are a reality of formal learning organizations, particularly in nation’s research universities, limited research looks at how we can improve learning within them. Most learning sciences research focuses on small or medium classes or informal learning leaving a gap in our understanding of learning related issues in large lectures. In this paper we present a theoretical in...

The People Vs Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy (and How We Save It) by Jamie Bartlett. New York: Dutton, 2018. 256 pp., £8.99 (p/b), ISBN 978-1785039065.

While the traditional agency model assumes managerial risk aversion and underinvestment in high tech opportunities, the behavioural agency model allows for risk seeking by managers leading possibly to over-risky investment. Corporate governance mechanisms can correct both underand overrisky investment thereby ensuring value enhancing high tech acquisitions. Our study builds an empirical optimal...

2004, George Nemhauser attended a conference on combinatorial optimization held in Santiago, Chile (LACGA’04), which was organized by the Center for Operations Management (CGO) at the University of Chile’s Department of Industrial Engineering. After giving a talk on game scheduling for Major League Baseball (MLB), the Georgia Tech engineering professor granted an interview to a prominent local ...

Before the Web, the story of online information services was largely one of over-estimates and unmet expectations. This study examines sustained use and non-use of online services within organizations in a way that overcomes limitations of the traditional approaches that repeatedly led to exuberant usage projections. By adopting an open-systems view, we see that firms in highly technical and hi...

With rapid technological innovation and strong competition in hi-tech industries such as computer and communication organizations, the upstream component price and the downstream product cost usually decline significantly with time. As a result, an effective pricing supply chain model is very important. This paper first establishes two bi-level pricing models for pricing problems with the buyer...

The transformation of economic development approach demands to develop high-tech industries, while high-tech industries can’t develop without financial support, in which different financial structures exists differences in the efficiency of high-tech industries development and support. For this reason, this paper firstly theoretically described the mechanism of financial structure’s effect on h...

Databases are a significant source of information in organizations and play a major role in managerial decision-making. This study considers how to process commercial data on customer purchasing timing to provide insights on the rate of new product adoption by the company’s consumers. Specifically, we show how to use the separation-deviation model (SD-model) to rate customers according to their...

Cloud computing is a relatively new concept that offers the potential to deliver scalable elastic services to many. The notion of pay-per use is attractive and in the current global recession hit economy it offers an economic solution to an organizations’ IT needs. Computer forensics is a relatively new discipline born out of the increasing use of computing and digital storage devices in crimin...