The literature suggests that business-IT alignment is an important antecedent of IS success, business process performance, and competitive advantage. Additionally, IT governance practices are highlighted as being instrumental to fostering business-IT alignment. In this paper, we derive various IT governance practices (in terms of structures, processes, relational mechanisms, and enterprise arch...

Management has a large effect on the productivity of medium and large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the labor force in developing countries works? We develop 26 questions that measure business practices in marketing, stockkeeping, record-keeping, and financial planning. These questions have been administered in surveys in Bangladesh, Chile, Gh...

Corporate entrepreneurship is a growing field of study that has been gaining ground in recent decades. Entrepreneurship exists in large and stable organizations and small and medium enterprises. Therefore, entrepreneurial business form include entrepreneurial practices in organizations, profit-making practices, and opportunity recognition. Also, entrepreneurship encourages competition in the en...

Business agility is often claimed as one of the primary benefits of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). However neither this claim, nor the effect of individual SOA practices on business agility, has been empirically investigated in a systematic way. In this paper we explore the impact of architectural concerns, business process management, infrastructure support for impact analysis, loose co...

nutritional status of historically disadvantaged smallholder food producers and their family members. Food Variety Scores (FVS) and Dietary Diversity Scores (DDS) are some of the indicators of nutritional status. This study sought to evaluate the nutritional status of children of historically disadvantaged agri-business smallholders at Alfred Nzo District. Methods: This study’s purposeful...

Enterprise governance of IT (EGIT) is about the definition and implementation of processes, structures and relational mechanisms that enable both business and IT people to execute their responsibilities in support of business/IT alignment and the creation of business value from IT-enabled business investments. In this field, practice-oriented guidance like COBIT and Val IT are often promoted as...