Industrial automation systems are long-lasting multitechnological systems that need industrial services in order to keep the system up-to-date and running smoothly. The Service organization needs to jointly work internally with R&D and externally with customers and COTS providers so as to operate efficiently. This paper focuses to Service – R&D collaboration. It presents a descriptive case stud...

It has been generally known that the agent research community provides powerful theories, algorithms and techniques that have got an immense potential for the deployment in various industrial applications. Sadly noted, the number of agent research centers and groups as much as the number of agent researchers by far outnumbers the commercial companies, CTO, and entrepreneurs that have the courag...

The aims of this study is to evaluate information technology (IT) governance implementation using the COBiTs’ maturity model, investigate the perceived Security Threats that face these companies and measures the causality between them. An Empirical Survey using self-administered questionnaire has been carried out to achieve the study objectives. The study results reveal that Jordanian industria...

Climate change and unsecured energy supply are topics that become increasingly important in today’s society. Although renewable energy technologies may be a long-term solution, more efficient energy use potentially makes a high and economic contribution to the given challenges in the short term. New CO2 regulations, rising energy prices and environmentally aware customers make energy efficient ...

Followed by changing environment and global competition, performance of enterprises in allocating more market share to themselves has shaped to be a strategic issue for most of competitive enterprises including production companies. In that case suggestion of a new method or methods that increases the performance of production companies, especially in their production speed, can be critical fac...

There is a causal relationship between high-quality cost systems and pricing decision makers because pricing decision is in dire need of modern systems that help make rational decisions. The aim of this research is to confirm that quality cost systems affect pricing decisions-making in maintaining the industrial companies. The research results can be utilized by beneficiaries taking into accoun...

The Minister of Economic Affairs of Taiwan announced in 2006 that the sales volumes of the manufacturing industry of Taiwan were continuously increased from 2000 to 2005 where the manufacturing industry took 21.95% and 21.4% in the gross domestic product of Taiwan in 2004 and 2005, respectively. It is no doubt that the manufacturing industry is both important and significant to Taiwan’s economy...

This study is intended to analyse several mechanisms available to companies in order to appropriate the results of their innovative activities. These mechanisms include patents, industrial secret, cost and time of imitation and continuous innovation. Specifically, this paper focuses on studying the factors that determine the choice of one appropriation method over another. To this end, we propo...

The study aimed to determine the impact between rational governance and financial performance on a sample of pharmaceutical companies listed in the Amman Stock Exchange. The questionnaire was used to collect data, where (200) inquiries were received (170) valid for statistical analysis were excluded (10) where used in Analysis process (160) of the total questionnaires distributed and to achieve...