minimum profitability of production factors is one of the most important economic features in the rural areas of iran. profitability of production factors such as land, water, capital etc. is in its lowest level in the rural areas of the country. rural economy is dependent to the agricultural economy up to a great extent. the most important factors in keeping profitability of production factors...

Financial institutions are exposed to a highly dynamic environment that is characterized by an intense competition and short technological hype cycles. Against this background, the assimilation of ondemand computing infrastructures as particularly Grid and Cloud computing can be assumed to be a potential strategic response to address fast changing market and technological demand as well as to c...

Sustainability Information Services for Agri-Food Supply Networks – Closing Gaps in Information Infrastructures Several global developments (e.g. diminishing production resources, growing demand for bio-energy) and numerous sector-wide crises (e.g. BSE, swine fever, dioxin) have led to a changing attitude of society towards the consequences of the agri-food system‘s activities for social, econo...

Although the literature on strategic alliances defines the role of information technologies (IT) as important, any reasoned explanation of it is still anecdotic. This study focuses on a particular type of technological relationship between firms and institutions for developing environmental management innovations through virtual cooperation. It goes into particular depth on the economic and str...

Environmental modeling is increasingly more integrative and collaborative work. The Internet and Web hold a promise of a shared environmental information infrastructure, which supports modeling. While the traditional (enterprise) information system architectures have not been much employed in the environmental domain, new standards-based Web technologies create an opportunity. At the same time ...

Information systems are an integral part of environmental management infrastructures – complex assemblages social and technical artifacts, human actors sociomaterial routines enacted in the pursuit sustainability outcomes. We analyse case infrastructure developed around a ‘vessel system’ by South Australian regulator between 2004 2013. The goal this was to sustain water quality controlling disc...