Enterprise Systems (ES) or Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems have been widely adopted by organizations around the world with the global market revenue estimated by AMR Research (2009) at 37.5 billion US dollars in 2008 and is expected to continue growing. Given the huge investments made...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The central research question of this study concerns the level of political risk that the Ogadenregion of eastern Ethiopia poses for companies operating in, or intending to operating in the oiland gas industry of that region. The aim is to answer that question as well as two...

This thesis presents an econometric methodology for analyzing the impact of market concentration (HHI) on the day rate prices paid by E&P operators for the lease of drilling rigs. It is an extension of the work of Lee (2008), ‘Measuring the Impact of Concentration in the Drilling Rig...

It could be argued that the quest for integration is at the core of sustainable developmentimplementation issues. Although there is no simple answer to the integrationchallenge there is no doubt that organisational integration and coordinationcomprise a critical ingredient in any prescription...

The rise of contract farming and vertical integration is one of the most important changes in modern agriculture. Yet the adoption and diffusion of these new forms of organization has varied widely across regions, commodities, or farm types, however. Transaction cost theories and the like are...

In spite of the prominence assigned to innovation in the strategic marketing literature particularly in the area of competitive strategy there have been several inadequacies in the conceptualization and measurement of the innovation construct. Responding to the need for a comprehensive measure,...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an integrated model, which incorporates the influence of different dimensions of power on various sub-components of continuous innovation in inter-firm networks using the product development process (PDP) as the unit of analysis....

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Management Decision, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Thesis (DBA(DoctorateofBusinessAdministration))--University of South Australia, 2007.

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the role of cross-functional teams in the alignment between system effectiveness and operational effectiveness after the implementation of enterprise information systems (EIS). In addition, it aims to explore the contribution of cross-functional...