This paper proposes an agent-based model for providing personalized services at specific locations. We describe the concept of LBP-agents, point out benefits of the model, and examine implementation and software infrastructural

In less than a decade, Internet-enabled business-to-business (B2B) commerce has become central to supply chain management. But little is known about the infrastructural competencies required for manufacturers engaged in Internet-enabled activities with downstream business customers. This paper aims to take a first step in operationalizing a set of new, multi-item measures that tap into infrastr...

For many firms, radio frequency identification (RFID) suggests not only a new alternative to existing tracking methods but also a means to a range of previously cost-prohibitive internal control and supply chain coordination innovations. In any event, and even in light of possible external pressures to adopt, the full potential of RFID for an individual firm must ultimately be viewed in conside...

Public and academic discourses about the Polar regions typically focus on the so-called natural environment. While, these discourses and inquiries continue to be relevant, the current article asks the question how to conceptualize the on-going industrial and infrastructural build-up of the Arctic. Acknowledging that the "built environment" is not an invention of modernity, the article neverthel...

As the Arctic is heating up, so are efforts to strengthen connectivity within region, enhance connections from remote settlements global networks of trade, and increase sociality. With interest in on rise, it becomes increasingly relevant ensure that investments infrastructure actually serve people Arctic, while promoting industrial commercial innovation region through widespread access broadba...

A considerable body of literature has demonstrated— empirically as well as analytically—that information systems need to be situated to the local context of use. Yet for infrastructural information systems that spannumerous contexts spreadout globally, this is literally prohibitive. For these systems towork, it is necessary to strike abalancebetween sensitiveness to local contexts anda need to ...