: Planning Tools; Utility Experience; and Policy and Technology Implications. Brief summaries of the individual presentations …

The use of the EFQM model and other business excellence models (BEM?s) has been recognised as a way of improving … business processes among organisations. The information gathered through self-assessments using these models show the … the information from self-assessments to current business improvement programs or projects. Additionally, it has been …

The study's aim was to investigate whether an Entrepreneurial Business Planning (EBP) paradigm could be discovered as a … interpretative richness to discover that an established Entrepreneurial Business Planning paradigm does exist. Its major elements … redresses some of the imbalance between entrepreneurship teaching- where Entrepreneurial Business Planning is at the core of …

For the purposes of this paper, e-business is defined as: "the performance, automisation and organisation of … research has been conducted either into how e-business technology can be successfully evaluated, or into the associated costs … and benefits specifically related to the transportation and railway industries. Based upon a review of the current …

Today's global economy and increased internationalization of business activity are forcing business schools to … internationalize their business curriculum, including the accounting curriculum, in order to educate and prepare students to practice … international component in their business and/or accounting curricula. In this study, it was found that, among the seven variables …

Business process integration and automation have gained popularity among business community, in the recent past. This … increased popularity can be seen as a result of the widespread use of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems as part of … maximizing the benefits of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) projects. This paper presents a framework for integrating …

on individual business barriers to information and communication technologies (ICT) and e-business adoption. Such … the uptake of e-business by SMEs. In this discussion paper, the authors posit that the current approach to ICT adoption … interventions fail to take into account the incremental nature of the SMEs e-business learning processes. An incremental learning …

. In addition, developing work undertaken by Pioch and Byrom (2004), the researchers examined what locational planning …