A Process-oriented Assessment of the Alignment of Information Systems and Business Strategy : Implications for IT Business Value
A Process-oriented Assessment of the Alignment of Information Systems and Business Strategy : Implications for IT Business Value ~ It has been argued that organizations’ inability to realize sufficient value from their IT investment is duein part to an absence of strategic alignment. In an attempt to formally evaluate this notion, we introduce aconceptual model [...]
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Knowledge Management and Competition in the Consulting Industry
Knowledge Management and Competition in the Consulting Industry ~ Although information technology has an important role in the recentemergence of the KM concept, it is important to realize that there is much moreto KM than technology alone. Knowledge Management is a business process. It isthe process through which firms create and use their institutional or [...]
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Information Technology and Economic Performance: A Critical Review of the Empirical Evidence
Information Technology and Economic Performance: A Critical Review of the Empirical Evidence ~ For many years, there has been considerable debate about whether the IT revolution was paying off in higher productivity. Studies in the 1980s found no connection betweenIT investment and productivity in the U.S. economy, a situation referred to as the productivity paradox. [...]
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How to Write It : Business Plans and Reports
How to Write It : Business Plans and Reports ~ The business plan is really a proposal that sets out a new business venture, direction, product,or course of action. Write a business plan in order to gain support for your idea. Like the proposal, it is written topersuade.Your audience may be potential investors, bankers, and [...]
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Public Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development
Public Infrastructure and Regional Economic Development ~ Recent attention given to the serious deterioration of the nation’s public infrastructure raises thequestion of whether public capital significantly affects economic development.Local policy makers and researchers concerned with regionalissues have claimed for years that public infrastructure investment is one of the primary meansto implement a strategy of regional [...]
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Investion and Innovations: Does Stage of Development Matter in Assessments of Market Attracktivenes?
Investion and Innovations: Does Stage of Development Matter in Assessments of Market Attracktivenes? ~ Both invention and innovation are vital to a country’s economic growth; however, their meaning and overall role in the innovation process differ. Invention is generally defined as the development of a new and useful product, while innovation refers to the ability [...]
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The Whoop Curve: Predicting Entrepreneurial and Financial Opportunities in The Performing Arts
The Whoop Curve: Predicting Entrepreneurial and Financial Opportunities in The Performing Arts ~Success in the performing arts is measured, like all industries, financially. And, because of the financial motivation, prediction of talent’s success is a large endeavor through out the industry. The authors introduce an approach for the prediction of success of an entrepreneurial endeavor [...]
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Satisfaction or Businees Savvy – Examining The OutcomeE of New Venture Creation With Respect To Enterprenuerial Characteristics, Expectation, Optimism,Realism, and Pesimism
Satisfaction or Businees Savvy – Examining The OutcomeE of New Venture Creation With Respect To Enterprenuerial Characteristics, Expectation, Optimism,Realism, and Pesimism ~ The purpose of this research was to explore entrepreneurs’ assessment of their newventure in terms of business outcomes and personal outcomes. Business outcomes and personaloutcomes were positively assessed by entrepreneurs who were realistic, [...]
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Students’ Perceptions of Online Learning: A Comparative Study
Students’ Perceptions of Online Learning: A Comparative Study ~ In search of better, more cost effective ways to deliver instruction and training, universities and corporations have expanded their use of e-learning. Although several studies suggest that online education and blended instruction (a “blend” of online and traditional approaches) can be as effective as traditional classroom [...]
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Relative Absorptive Capacity and Interrorganizational Learning
Relative Absorptive Capacity and Interrorganizational Learning ~ Over the past decade the rules of corporate competition have changed and with them the waysin which firms use alliances. Competition isincreasingly knowledge based as firms strive tolearn and to develop capabilities faster than theirrivals (Prahalad and Hamel, 1990; D’Aveni,1994; Teece and Pisano, 1994). However, the time between [...]
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The Governance of Telecommuters : An Agency and Transaction Cost Analysis
The Governance of Telecommuters : An Agency and Transaction Cost Analysis ~ Telecommuting is a topic of interest for practitioners and scholars alike. However, research on telecommuting is only beginning to scratch the surface (Siha & Monroe, 2006). To better understand the phenomenon, there is a need to understand organizational, managerial, and worker motivations andpractices. [...]
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Strategic Management : Does Personality Make a Difference?
Strategic Management : Does Personality Make a Difference? ~ The purpose of this paper is to clarify this question: Is there a strong enough body of evidence to establish whether there is any relationship between personality characteristics of seniorexecutives and strategic decision making? A related question is: Do senior executives’ personalities differ significantly from other [...]
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