The rise of social software and Enterprise 2.0 sees organizations rapidly deploying collaboration technologies. Implementing new technology entails change and challenges, and these aspects of Enterprise 2.0 have not been adequately addressed by research. This study investigates change factors specific to Enterprise 2.0 initiatives to contribute to our understanding of their characteristics and ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that can be used to predict which small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are more likely to become adopters of enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, SCM and e-procurement). Design/methodology/approach – Direct interviews were used to collect data from a random sample of SMEs located in the Northwest of England. Using logistic regression, 102 r...

disorder. Only highly qualified centers where more specific tests are available may take on the task of further evaluation. The platelet physiology subcommittee of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) has dedicated its work during recent years to searching for ways to improve and standardize platelet function testing, applying platelet aggregometry, the PFA-100 device,...

Motivated by a conjecture of Frid, Puzynina, and Zamboni, we investigate infinite words with the property that for infinitely many n, every length-n factor is a product of two palindromes. We show that every Sturmian word has this property, but this does not characterize the class of Sturmian words. We also show that the Thue–Morse word does not have this property. We investigate finite words w...

The purpose of this research is examining the influence of organizational learning and knowledge management in enterprise resource planning implementation. This study is based on organizational learning, knowledge management and enterprise resource planning implementation. This research did not test all organizational factors and focus particularly on knowledge management capacity and absorptiv...