the concept of business model has attracted increasing attention in recent years. specifically, growing number of internet providers on mobile phones are challenged by the selection of appropriate business model. considering the importance of a good business model in the firm’s success, this research investigates the business models selection process of internet providers on mobile phones in ir...

E-services are services that can be invoked over the Internet. One likely use of e-services would be to build business applications that can employ e-services from different service providers. This potential use of composite services in business settings highlights the issues of payment mechanisms, reliability, trust, inter-operability and service guarantees between different service providers....

The liberalisation of the telecommunications industry has resulted in a proliferation of new services and services providers. This is particularly the case in the rapidly expanding IPbased services market. Providers include ISPs, Virtual Private Network (VPN) and application service providers, and backbone operators. The final service set delivered to the customer will result from the combinati...

In today’s business environment, the use of web services technology is becoming more popular. This growth has been met with an increase of security related attacks, which has caused web services providers to adopt stricter security policies. As not all web service consumers can implement the security requirements of web services providers, they may turn to use the services of other providers. I...

This paper investigates the normative perspective of the Web service business context. The business context includes modeling of the business entities and their relationships, while its normative perspective deals with responsibilities, rights and obligations of both Web service providers and users. The existing literature and practice confirm the gap between the available Web service infrastru...

Business clusters play an important role in developing and improving the economic performance of countries and in promoting the welfare of people. Business development service providers (hereafter referred to as, BDSP) have a considerable role in providing specialized services pertinent to the conditions of active enterprises in clusters and in promoting their performance level in order to impr...

Cloud computing is rapidly gaining traction in business. It offers businesses online services on demand (such as Gmail, iCloud and Salesforce) and allows them to cut costs on hardware and IT support. This is the first paper in business ethics dealing with this new technology. It analyzes the informational duties of hosting companies that own and operate cloud computing datacentres (e.g., Amazon...

Abstract. Achievements and experiences in projects with focus on resource management have shown that the goals and needs of High Performance Computing service providers have not or only inadequately been taken into account in Grid research and development. Mapping real-life business behaviour and workflows within the service provider domain to the electronic level implies focusing on the busine...