in the explosive growth of business to business (b2b) electronic trades, electronic markets have received a great deal of attention recently. the obtained profit of trading in e-b2b market encourage market participants to remain in the market. market participants consist of: sellers, buyers, and market owner. in this paper the expected profit function for each market participant has been define...

The condition of the market is currently very dynamic, demanding organizations which is use system information to support the achievement of objectives should be necessarily improve the ability of information systems in accordance with the changes. Improved information systems capabilities need to align with resource capabilities in internal environment of the organization, and vice versa. Alig...

Peppard and Ward (2004) have instigated the development of the concept of IS capability based on Resource-based Theory (RBT). The goal of this paper is to add scrutiny to their initiative by drawing on the complementarities between RBT and Industrial Economics, and by focusing explicitly on the mechanisms around information that lead to IS-based rents. We introduce an IS rent framework with IS ...

The scheduling problem in manufacturing companies with high rework rates remains a complex research area to date. This paper presents new approach for that combines predictive schedule proactive multicriteria decision-making method based on smart batches and their quality prediction capability. Each batch embeds an algorithm allows it predict its out of the next workstation. As soon as determin...