Cloud computing adoption by organizations has been minor despite the initial optimism. The primary concerns obstructing adoption of cloud-based services are security, loss of control, and inadequate legislative. In a cloud-based model, information technology services are distributed and accessed...

The current study aims at investigating the relationship between e-business growth and e-business enablers and barriers by SMEs in Jordanian communication sector. More specifically, the study attempts to identify factors associated with SMEs' adoption of e-business, including barriers and...

Organizational portals are vital parts of knowledge-intensive organizations. They play several critical roles: a) provide a platform for deployment of web-based services; b) envelop distributed internal resources; and c) present a centralized access to resources and services. Portal services...

Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a product and service design technique primarily oriented to deliver the ‘voice of the customer' throughout every single planning and design activity. QFD was successfully applied in almost every manufacturing industry, methodologically adapted and employed...

The growth of Internet access enabled the creation of functions (e.g., e-commerce and search) that were initially convenient but which a small number of firms used to achieve winner-takes-all, through the application of ICTs, network externalities and two-sided markets. They turned themselves...

This article points at insights from the subfields of international business and strategic management that are relevant for sustainability transitions research. Specifically, building on the emergent ‘mainstream' literature on ‘generic' digital platforms, we explain how a range of digital...

In the field of research and international developments in business management, in particular in e-commerce, the most significant achievements outreach intelligents contracts and block-chains. They are called "Smart business networks". Indeed, in line with business agility concepts enabled by...

This paper discusses best practices for validation for an upgrade or new Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Topics covered include Introduction to ERP Systems, Upgrading ERP Systems, Implementation ERP Systems, ERP Financial and System Document Reports, SQL Command Scripts and Database...

Since the last decade, there has been a tremendous growth in the call center businesses in several metropolitan and urban cities in India. Mumbai city is no exception to this sudden boom. The call center businesses employ over 500,000 nascent employees in the age group of 18 – 28 yrs in...

In spring 2016, The Distributed Autonomous Organization (The DAO) was created on Ethereum. As with Bitcoin, Ethereum uses a P2P network, where distributed ledgers are implemented as daisy-chained blocks of data. Ethereum's native cryptocurrency, Ethers, are spent to execute pieces of code called...