Offshoring can reduce the production cost of an activity. At the same time, it can generate additional management costs. This paper develops a model explaining the main drivers of the efforts required to manage offshore activities. Results show that distance plays an important role in the...

In order to adequately respond to the challenges of the knowledge-based economy several firms adopt non-traditional organisational forms. These new organisational forms are characterised by their high degree of flexibility and adaptability, their customer focus, their process orientation and...

E-Government adoption is a challenging and actual analysis subject. This paper analyzes the way in which e-Government can help nations achieve their social and economic objectives by pointing out the objectives, benefits and limitations of the concept. The paper also provides recent E-government...

Knowledge management is evolving from being successful on small companies to the entire society. The era of information technology and the speed the changes take place, imply a profound transformation from tactic to strategic level, where decision-makers can, and must do a whole society review....

The paper presents a generic framework of an intelligent information system for competence management based on ontologies for information technology companies. The advantage of using an ontology-based system is the possibility of the identification of new relations among concepts based on...