As international competition continues to intensify, significant numbers of organisations are investing large amounts of resources into information and communication technologies as they seek to gain competitive advantage. Information Technology (IT) is increasingly being implemented for strategic reasons, so as to enable improved efficiency and to improve the control and productivity of intern...

In our experience, corporate eLearning initiatives are often being implemented with too little consideration of organizational issues, such as corporate strategy. As a result, potential benefits of eLearning as a tool for creating organizational competencies are usually not realized to a full extent. Thus, the focus of the present paper is on integrating eLearning and strategic knowledge manage...

conclusions the study showed that the costs associated with cardiovascular diseases were not reasonable for many of these patients and their families. this certainly requires more consideration by managers and policy makers in the health care sector and the implementation of effective interventions. results the study findings showed that the total cost of cardiovascular diseases was 13,074,700 ...

The scope of this paper is to investigate whether SMEs take into consideration the cost dimensions (tangible and intangible, direct and indirect) and follow the investment appraisal techniques proposed in literature as relevant and suitable in relation to e-commerce adoption. More specifically, we analyse the importance placed by the EC adopters on specific cost elements, types of budgets and i...

Previous efforts in electronic commerce (e-commerce) research in developing countries shows that there is an acute lack of theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence to understand how developing country firms realize electronic commerce benefits amidst their national constraints. This paper sets out to develop a theoretically abstracted but contextually grounded model of how developing count...