Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to identify the impact of enterprise systems (ESs), in particular radio frequency identification (RFID) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, on supply chain management (SCM). The results of this conceptual paper demonstrate that ERP and RFID...

Portuguese Abstract: Este artigo apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa descritiva desenvolvida sobre a aprendizagem da organização, para a qual se desenhou um modelo teórico com base em abordagens coincidentes dos autores analisados. Foram concebidos instrumentos tipo Likert aplicados a 356...

Since the dawn of the computer age it seems that the pace of development of information technology has continued to increase and that this pace of development shows no sign of slowing down. Computers are now a feature of everyday life, evident in the workplace, in our leisure activities and even...

The objective of this research is to analyze the relationship between strategies adopted by business people when managing their companies. Of interest in this study is how enterprises adapt to the environment and what communication and information technologies (CIT’s) they use as a competitive...

Although many believe that work and family conflict (WFC) is a social issue, its scope is ample due to its causes and consequences. In the organizational ground, WFC has been found to affect important outcomes such as job satisfaction, commitment, and turnover. Additionally, there is a need to...

In its February 2008 issue, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) classified “collaborative” technologies (social networking sites, virtual worlds, multi-player games, the peer‐to‐peer economy) as one of the 20 most important developments in the business world. A study from The McKinsey...

Despite the strong and consistent increase in the use of electronic payment methods worldwide, the diffusion of electronic wallets is still far from widespread. Analysis of the failure of electronic wallet uptake has either focused on technical issues or chosen to analyse a specific scheme...

The erratic development of electronic wallets (EW) shows the difficulties of their adoption by the general public and shopkeepers. With the exception of Proton in Europe and Octopus in Asia, a lot of electronic wallets are likely to disappear in the next years. Yet, the key factors of success...

Contract design involves control mechanisms that trade off the provision of ex ante incentives to reduce losses from moral hazard, while avoiding costs of ex post adaptations. We examine how this tradeoff influences the form of the contract, namely cost-plus and fixed-price. We investigate...

In this study, a model for strategic planning based on artificial neural networks is presented. This proposed artificial neural network model goes beyond projections and statistical analysis. Based, on an algorithm, the proposed model offers strategy optimization and assists management in...