Intense global competition, dynamic business complexity, as well as increased customer sophistication (e.g., one-stop shop, one face to all) are demanding large complex organizations to integrate their enterprise operations. One way to attain the goal is through ERP-enabled enterprise integration. How do organizations execute their enterprise integration strategies through ERP systems? Through ...

In its early catalogue and transaction phases, E-Government (e-Gov) has been quite successful, although some critics say that it mainly reaped the harvest of relatively low hanging fruits by making paper-based information accessible over the Web, and also by Web-enabling some existing transaction processes. The subsequent horizontal and vertical integration phases of eGov, those critics hold, p...

The key question answered in this paper is, what characterises the manufacturing business environment in Nigeria and how are firms and government supposed to react? Based on a sample of manufacturing firms, our findings show that the environment, though complex-changing, is analysable. We offer some explanations for and draw strategic implications from these results. In a large, protected low-i...

Data base integrity constraints are commonly expressed as predicates over data base states or state changes (global constraints) or as preconditions of transactions that are to change data base states (local constraints). We argue that business reengineering, and the lack of sophistication of users favor local constraints, but that global constraints may also be necessary. Local constraints are...

T wo measures of the "meaningful" complexity of an infini te string are shown to be equivalent up to a constant (under app ropriate translati on) . "Sophis t ica tion", defined by Koppel and Atlan [3], is the size of t he projectible par t of the st ring's minimal description and forma lizes t he amount of pla nni ng which wen t into t he constru ct ion of the str ing. "Dept h". defi ned by Ben...

Purpose. One of the perspectives that receives most attention from studies in international business is cultural dimensions. This due to greater complexity and incidence aspects economic performance. paper explored moderation effect orientations on creation innovation trajectories related levels their outcomes countries various geographical areas between 2011 2021. Design/Methodology/Approach. ...

In this talk I will present the University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab’s recent research in Dark Web, Geopolitical Web, and Business Analytics. Based on funding from the NSF and several other US agencies, the AI Lab has developed techniques for collecting, managing and analyzing largescale multilingual and multimedia social media contents of relevance to social, geopolitical, and bus...