This book offers a unique view of how innovativeness and competitiveness improve when organizations establish alliances with partners who have strong capabilities and broad social capital, allowing them to create value and growth as well as technological knowledge and legitimacy through new...

Welfare rise, spatial mobility, and global information and communication channels (in particular, social media) have prompted the emergence of a specific booming and rapidly growing mobility industry all over the world, namely tourism. The tourist sector (including recreation and leisure...

This book is a comprehensive reference on ISO management system standards and their implementation. The impacts that ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 have had on business performance are analyzed in depth, and up-to-date perspectives are offered on the integration of these and other management standards...

This book examines the relationship between digital innovations on the one hand, and accounting and management information systems on the other. In particular it addresses topics including cloud computing, data mining, XBRL, and digital platforms. It presents an analysis of how new technologies...

This book offers hands-on statistical tools for business professionals by focusing on the practical application of a single-equation regression. The authors discuss commonly applied econometric procedures, which are useful in building regression models for economic forecasting and supporting...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the SIGSAND/PLAIS EuroSymposium 2016 titled Information Systems: Development, Research, Applications, Education, held in Gdansk and Sopot, Poland, on September 29, 2016. The objective of this symposium is to promote and develop high-quality...

Introduction -- Big Data Panel at SIGDSS Pre-ICIS Conference 2013 A Swiss-Army Knife? The Profile of a Data Scientist -- Creating a Data-Driven Global Society -- Agile Supply Chain Decision Support System -- Hawkes Point Processes for Social Media Analytics -- Using Academic Analytics to Predict...

Cooperation-Experience-Ansatz im Überblick -- Modellierungsmethode mit mehreren Abstraktionsebenen -- Softwareprototypen für die Konzeption hybrider Wertschöpfungsnetzwerke -- Workshop-Konzept zum integrierten Methoden- und Werkzeugeinsatz -- Referenzmodell für die integrale Planung des Baus...

In today's competitive environment, manufacturing and service companies are intensifying their customization processes. Customization means companies must meet the challenge of providing individualized products and services, without introducing high costs. Therefore, companies must address both...

Today's enterprises have to continuously extend their operational limits to earn profit, thrive and prosper. Over time evolution led to the development of two concepts to master this challenge: intelligence and knowledge. This work introduces a system theoretic perspective on enterprises,...