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Consultants’ advice to adopt management control systems: the joint effect of persuasion triggers and manager competence
Leiby, Justin - 2011
CFOs and other managers depend on consultants to provide advice on management control systems (MCS) and the expertise … to investigate whether the consultant’s advice to adopt an MCS depends on its distinctiveness (i.e. whether or not the …’s competence. Consultants are more likely to advise a distinctive versus non-distinctive MCS to an exceptional manager, while they …
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Business intelligence system use to leverage enterprise-wide accounting information in shared data environments
Elbashir, M.; Collier, P. A.; Sutton, S. G. - 2008
organizations and conjointly the capability for broader based management control systems (MCS). Yet, several studies have found that … most organizations have experienced little change in their MCS post-ERP implementation with few organizations experiencing … the broad integration of MCS cross-functionally that effectively leverage enterprise data for the support of strategic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448696
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Enterprise systems success: a measurement model
Sedera, Darshana - 2006
Organizations make large investments in Information Systems (IS) expecting positive impacts to the organisation and its functions. Yet, there exists much controversy surrounding the 'potential' impacts of these systems, with some studies reporting broadly positive impacts of IS across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009437994
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Organizational readiness for successful knowledge sharing: challenges for public sector managers.
Taylor, W. Andrew; Wright, Gillian H. - 2004
Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Information Resources Management Journal, published by and copyright I G I Global.
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Assessment of software measurement
Berry, Michael - 2006
Background and purpose. This thesis documents a program of five studies concerned with the assessment of software measurement. The goal of this program is to assist the software industry to improve the information support for managers, analysts and software engineers by providing evidence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009484238
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The Economic Incentives for Sharing Security Information
Ghose, Anindya; Gal-Or, Esther - 2006
Given that information technology (IT) security has emerged as animportant issue in the last few years, the subject of securityinformation sharing among firms, as a tool to minimize securitybreaches, has gained the interest of practitioners and academics. Topromote the disclosure and sharing of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009435029
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Determinants and consequences of information sharing with key suppliers
Yigitbasioglu, Ogan - 2008
The economic environment of today can be characterized as highly dynamic and competitive if not being in a constant flux. Globalization and the Information Technology (IT) revolution are perhaps the main contributing factors to this observation. While companies have to some extent adapted to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438107
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A rights management approach to securing data distribution in coalitions
Salim, Farzad; Sheppard, Nicholas P.; Safavi-Naini, Rei - 2010
As network capacity has increased over the past decade, individuals and organisations have found it increasingly appealing to make use of remote services in the form of service-oriented architectures and cloud computing services. Data processed by remote services, however, is no longer under the...
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Should Firms Share Information About Expensive Customers? An Equilibrium Analysis
Mathur, Sameer; Srinivasan, Kannan; Sun, Bao-Hong - 2007
Advances in information technology increasingly allow firms to identify expensive, high-cost customers, who are not only individually less profitable for firms but also raise the average marginal cost incurred by firms and thus impose a negative externality on inexpensive customers. Should...
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Buyer-supplier partnership in agile supply chains: A conceptual view
El-Tawy, N; Gallear, D - 2010
The purpose of this paper focuses on achieving agility within the supply chain and seeks to examine the impact of developing an integrated buyer-supplier partnership on achieving agility. It also aims to investigate the moderating role played by information sharing and technology in achieving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009465440