Today the intangible assets are the capital of knowledge and are the most important and the most valuable resource for organizations. All employees have knowledge independently of the kind of jobs they do. Knowledge is thus an asset, which influences business operations. The objective of this article is to identify knowledge continuity as an objective of business continuity management. The arti...

Public sector organizations have started to use e-government initiatives in order to realize their business values. Although it is well known that the alignment between business and IT improves performance, it has not been studied in public sector organizations. Since a majority of the business-IT alignment models rely on economical jurisdictions, they cannot be blindly implemented in public se...

In the age of information technology and internet, business processes in many organizations have evolved into a series of knowledge exchanging activities. This is especially the case of multi-national corporations, which have e-business activities spread across multiple locations world-wide. Under these circumstances, for any multi-national corporation, comprehending and responding strategicall...

In today’s globalized markets, organizations have to work together in IT based inter-organizational networks embedded in business ecosystems. As every member relies on the ecosystem, the network and on other network members, the likelihood of disruptions and business discontinuity rises. Therefore, new methods and concepts of business continuity in network organizations have to be found. This p...

Public sector organizations have started to use e-government initiatives in order to realize their business values. Although it is well known that the alignment between business and IT improves performance, it has not been studied in public sector organizations. Since a majority of the business-IT alignment models rely on economical jurisdictions, they cannot be blindly implemented in public se...

E-business has changed the definition of enterprise systems.ERP focuses on core business functions, while E-business pushes the ERP from inside core of the organizations to the network edge. By making use of E-business approaches, organizations can have the ERP integration benefits of flexibility, reduction in cost, more effective and quick responses etc.By integrating ERP with E-business, a ne...

Collaborative business has been increasingly developing with the environment of globalization and advanced information technologies. In a collaboration environment with multiple organizations, participants from different organizations always have different views about modeling the overall business process due to different knowledge and cultural backgrounds. Moreover, flexible support, privacy p...

If defined broadly, innovation can be seen as the business of science organizations. However, like most of the organizational literature, the innovation literature has largely focused on innovation in private sector business organizations. This literature may, nonetheless, have insights that can be used by the science organizations, both private and public. First, although science organizations...