This paper examines three software and/or information technology enabled services (ITES) industries—two in the early stages of development (in the People’s Republic of China [PRC] and the Philippines) and one mature one (in India). Being latecomers to offshoring work, the PRC and the Philippines have developed this industry in cooperation with multinational enterprises (MNEs). PRC firms have wo...

In the recent past, Voice over IP (VoIP) deployments over data networks are gaining popularity due to the massive growth in the broadband internet access. Successful deployment of these applications depends directly on the performance of the underlying data network. Based on this and the fact that today’s data networks are operated to perform many significant applications, network administrator...

Commenting on the Survey’s findings, Mr John Travers, Chief Executive Officer, Forfás, said the results demonstrated the continuing high growth rate, which was achieved in the economy in 2000. While economic growth is slowing sharply in 2001 accompanied by a loss of jobs in the high tech and other sectors, the employment data point to underlying strengths in the enterprise sector in Ireland ove...

Providing and improving urban public transport service is becoming highly important to meet the demand of rapidly growing mass mobility due to high population growth and galloping urbanization in and around the city of Addis Ababa. This paper tries to assess the existing operational and financial performances of Anbessa City Bus Service Enterprise (ACBSE), which is the sole and government owned...

this research investigates factors of enterprise portals of governmental organizations of iran. methods used in this research are literature and descriptive survey. data was gathered by a researcher-made checklist for enterprise portal factors in the enterprise portals of governmental organizations of iran. the checklist contains six factors that are content management, document management, col...

The emergence of Web 2.0 and its rapid adoption by the corporate world, known as Enterprise 2.0, has radically modified access to tacit knowledge and significantly reduced business latency. Meanwhile, technology for wireless LAN and mobile communication, combined with advances in handsets, has allowed for superior quality of experience with acceptable productivity level. Combining mobility with...