Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present the results of research undertaken to test the use of traditional strategic approaches in developing competitive advantage through the assessment of the importance to small‐ and medium‐sized firms of cost and services available in a...

Purpose – The liquefied natural gas (LNG) business comprises a number of economic activities with inherent risks. The purpose of this paper is to propose an integrated modelling approach, as part of the investment decision‐making process, for optimising economic returns from LNG whilst...

Purpose – Understanding complex farming organizations is important in the USA given the rapid consolidation of the agricultural production sector. Multiple entity farms arise from a desire to enhance the ability to transfer the farm from one generation to the next, a desire to affect tax...

Purpose – Despite the role of post conflict housing reconstruction in establishing the development of peace in conflict affected countries, there are many issues which hinder its success. While the inconsideration of housing needs in post conflict housing reconstruction has directly or...

Purpose – This paper seeks to show how enterprise resource planning (ERP) could create a competitive advantage for small‐ and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). Design/methodology/approach – The main methods used in this study were questionnaires and interviews based on the application of...

Purpose – This study aims to provide a good insight into the use of analytic network process (ANP), a multi‐criteria decision‐making methodology in selecting and benchmarking enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Design/methodology/approach – In this study, ANP model is proposed...

Awareness of resource sharing in Pakistan in its present day form is a phenomenon of the 1980s. This is primarily attributed to problems encountered by libraries with regard to the paucity of resources, lack of funds and absence of bibliographic and physical accessibility to limited resources....

Purpose – To identify which library services could be provided on a fee‐based model in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach – Surveying experts in Pakistani libraries, a questionnaire was administered to determine both the types of library services that could generate revenue and the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to discuss the part that managing skill sets plays in practicing the performance standard of managing people effectively. Design/methodology/approach – The approach is to differentiate between organizing staff positions around job functions and...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems not only have a broad functional scope promising to support many different business processes, they also embed many different aspects of the company’s organizational memory. Disparities can exist between those memory contents in the ERP system and...