Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effects of social resources on promoting information sharing practice and, thereby, improving firm performance. In particular, the authors are interested in addressing the following research questions. First, can the development of social...

Purpose – This study aims to examine the effect of organizational relationship style (employees' relationships with colleagues, supervisors, and the organization) on the sharing of knowledge in high‐tech companies; it goes on to determine which particular relationship style is the most...

Purpose – This paper develops a new decomposition method of the housing market variations to analyse the housing dynamics of the Australian eight capital cities. Design/methodology/approach – This study reviews the prior research on analysing the housing market variations and classifies the...

Describes the combination of research methods used to investigate the process of Information Management (IM) in small firms. IM was defined as encompassing all management issues related to Information Systems (IS) and involving processes relating to planning, organization, control and...

Analyses the variety of loyalty programmes that exist within the UK corporate hotel sector. A literature review leads to the proposition that in order to be cost‐effective in stimulating repeat business, loyalty programmes should reflect the business environment in which they operate. Loyalty...

Reports the results of a recent study of marketing and information systems (IS) managers about the importance of telecommunications in their positions and the quality of their training in telecommunications. Surprisingly, the marketing managers rated the importance of the 30 telecommunications...

Enterprise portal is a type of new information system that can help companies and their employees to manage, share, and use previously disparate information. There are more than 60 vendors that are offering corporate portal solutions. With so many vendors, selecting the right one can be a...

This paper discusses the results of Australian case studies illustrating the key issues that need to be addressed for accounting information quality management. In previous studies from the existing literature, the factors that may impact on information quality have been summarized. In this...

The role of quality of information in decision making has been highlighted in the literature. However, little attention has been given to the importance of critical information for the management of modern organisations. In order to provide products and services to customers, organisations need...

Improving competitive advantage to the first‐tier echelon of automotive supply chains is enabled via the requirement for transparent information flows in both the order‐generating and order fulfilment channels. However, four generic areas are identified which are barriers to improving...