"This book explores innovation, imitation and creative destruction as critical factors and agents of socio-economic growth and progress in the context of emerging challenges and opportunities for business development and strategic advantage. It examines key product and technological developments...

This book emphasizes the importance of validation and verification in the modernization of systems that are critical to safety, security, and economic profits. Containing integration analyses to control the evolution of legacy systems towards object oriented technologies, this publication...

"This book provides fresh ideas on how IT and modern management can contribute to societal and economic objectives and the significant role of IT for global challenges and international collaboration"--Provided by publisher.

1. Designing digital marketplaces for competitive advantage / Dinesh Rathi, Lisa Given -- 2. E-commerce systems for software agents / Emmanuel Tadjouddine -- 3. Enhancing the preparedness of SMEs for E-business opportunities by collaborative networks / Heiko Duin, Klaus-Dieter Thoben -- 4....

"This book is devoted to examining a range of issues concerning green finance and sustainability covering sections on emerging environmentally aware business models, regulation and standard development, green ICT for sustainability, green finance and the carbon market, green manufacturing,...

1. IT/IS readiness maturity model / Mustafa Alshawi and Hafez Salleh -- 2. Readiness in systems implementation: lessons from the higher education sector / Eric Lou and Hafez Salleh -- 3. Improving the tendering process: a construction organization perspective / Hafez Salleh -- 4. Building for...

"This book is a definitive focus on analytical strategic decision-making, presenting sophisticated tools and methodologies developed by researchers and vendors to improve decision making for business strategy"--Provided by publisher.

"This book disseminates information on the new practices and techniques in e-business and promotes a better understanding of contemporary issues and solutions to existing and emerging challenges"--Provided by publisher.

"This book emphasizes how organizations enable both businesses and IT people to execute their responsibilities in support of business/IT alignment and the creation of business value from IT enabled corporation investments"--Provided by publisher.

Enterprise systems outsourcing "behind the curtain": a case study showing how rational and institutional explanations coexist and complement each other / Per Svejvig, Jan Pries-Heje -- The influence of organisational size, internal IT capabilities, and competitive and vendor pressures on ERP...