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Firms increasingly acquire needed information technology (IT) products and services from external sources through the formation of partnerships. In spite of the ubiquity of IT outsourcing practice in today's organizations however, theoretical understanding of IT partnerships in outsourcing is...
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To compete in the global market, organisations have to ensure that their production issynchronised with their other business activities. To achieve this, companies deploy a variety of solutions known as Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES). These systems provide thebridge between control and...
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Growth in IT outsourcing is expected to remain high in the coming years as there have been widespread market claims that IT outsourcing can reduce firms' costs by over 30 percent. The scope and range of IT outsourcing services are also increasing, as evidenced by the promotion of ASP...
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Information Technology (IT) outsourcing is a serious option available to modern managers. An emerging trend is the focus on relationship management in IT outsourcing, imploring organisations to look past tactical objectives and concentrate on strategic outcomes. In a global economy business...
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Corporate citizenship is a strategic imperative, one that can significantly affect firm competitiveness. However, there is little research to demonstrate what actually shapes or drives firms towards a more proactive posture with respect to corporate citizenship. This paper makes a case that...
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Growth and profitability are often essential parts of the overall managerial goals of firms. High growth can be seen as an indicator of success and as a mean for achieving competitive advantage and higher profitability. But high growth can also lead to a number of managerial and organisational...
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Though considerable attention in the extant literature has been devoted to growth and performance of firms, there is a dearth of research on high growth firms. Furthermore, the majority of literature in this area focuses on large firms while research on high growth small firms is underdeveloped....
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The most important strategic decisions related to technology in a company related precisely to determine the timing of the election of a new technology that will replace the existing one. By monitoring all the new features will be prevented that the existing technology comes a phase of maturity...
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On the 1st of January 2007, Bulgaria became a member of the European Union. It is indisputable, that a well developed … Bank would face, if the cooperation between Bulgaria and the IMF ends in 2011 - as it is planned.The regulatory framework …. Against the background of Bulgaria’s EU-membership and the implementation of bank supervision regulation in accordance to …
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between Bulgaria and the European Union member countries for the period 1989-1998 are used in the respective regression …
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