While Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives have been a top-priority of CIOs around the world for several years, accounting for billions of USD of IT investments per annum (IDC), academic research on the actual benefits derived from BI tools and the drivers of these benefits remain sparse. This...

This paper explored the empirical research investigating the relationship between Accounting Information Systems (AIS) alignment and Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) performance. Literature shows that AIS alignment is influenced by organizational characteristics, individual characteristics...

While Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives have been a top-priority of CIOs around the world for several years, accounting for billions of USD of IT investments per annum (IDC), academic research on the actual bene fits derived from BI tools and the drivers of these bene fits remain sparse....

This paper evaluates the relative financial managerial performance of thirty matched-pairs of US firms and Chinese (CN) firms. In this study, financial managerial performance is measured in terms of profitability, debt management, and asset management. Paired comparison is employed and eight...

IS/IT investments are seen has having an enormous potential impact on the competitive position of the firm, on its performance, and demand an active and motivated participation of several stakeholder groups. The shortfall of evidence concerning the productivity of IT became known as the...

This paper investigates whether, and if yes, under what conditions, cloud-based collaboration technologies have improved company performance in the high-tech, media and telecom (TMT) industries. Two results stand out. First, while adoption of collaboration technologies in TMT is ahead of other...

This research identifies potential links between performance and the level of financial communication on the web. This study examines 216 firms quoted in 2010 on the Free Market of Paris. We use a content analysis of websites and scoring technique, to compute a score of financial communication...

The purpose of this exploratory study is the examination of the complex interactions among variables that affect the performance of European manufacturing SMEs by using a hierarchical log linear model. In the present study, firm performance is empirically measured in terms of turnover growth....

The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of organizational stress on financial performance in Indian software development companies. A questionnaire was distributed to employees of 17 Indian software development companies and filled by 501. We identified constructs using a literature...

Using the procedures stipulated by the grounded theory, this study reports the findings of in-depth semi-structured interviews with five owners-managers of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs)on how performance is being measured. The findings reveal that the owners-managers use a hybrid...