This article reviews methods to the development of a decision support system (DSS) solution for small business owners/managers. The main objective of designing the DSS artefact is to support the strategic decision-making for achieving competitive advantages in the business-to-consumer (B2C)...

Previous studies are inconsistent in their findings about the relationship between external involvement and performance. The authors attribute this inconsistency to the misfit between external involvement and business environment. Drawing the concept of fit between information processing...

Data mining has been gaining attention with the complex business environments, as a rapid increase of data volume and the ubiquitous nature of data in this age of the internet and social media. Organizations are interested in making informed decisions with a complete set of data including...

In this article the authors articulate four separate models that consider the inter-relationships between Explicit and Implicit Corporate Social Responsibility. These models suggest that the transition from a traditional and 'quiet' social responsibility approach to a strategic and more...

The world has globalized more than ever today. Companies from different countries compete in the global market place fiercely. The quick development of globalization is referred to various factors involving the immense usage of technology and its accompanying uses in international management....

To extract useful information from massive production processing data, firstly, production process and business workflow of the textile processing were analyzed, and the complex relationship and high dimensional feature of the stored data were studied. Secondly, a production management structure...

Based on qualities of the four-stroke engine and the medical diagnostic process, five characteristics of knowledge were identified and serve as the basis of a self-sustaining knowledge creation process. The SccoB process forms a complementary relation with the firm's existing processes and...