This Article examines the scope of Sorrell v. IMS Health, its potential impact on legislative efforts to enact comprehensive consumer privacy legislation, and its implications for targeted Internet advertising. Part I provides a general overview of ad-targeting technology, emphasizing the...

For several decades, the international community has aspired to integrate the social, economic and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Yet, no country has achieved the patterns of consumption and production that could sustain global prosperity in the coming decades. Thus, with the...

I explore the relationship in partnering strategy [exploration – based on weak ties vs. exploitation – based on strong ties], national culture and and firms’ organizational model in the context of global ICT Industry. In the highly uncertain global environment, partnering is the one of the...

Depot is the most important and crucial operating level unit in Road Transport Corporations. It is here that more than 80 percent of the total manpower and financial resources are invested. Profits and losses are usually determined at depot level on the basis of its operating results. In this...

Sustainable socioeconomic development is a widely accepted best business practice. Due to its complex nature, it is not easy for policymakers and community leaders to implement these practices without the help of an in-depth master analysis to guide them. The purpose of this report is a twofold....

In this paper, the link between productivity, prices, and profitability are examined for Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) using its annual data from 1979-80 to 1999-00. We find that, by and large, productivity gains achieved by APSRTC are being passed through to...

This study is based on twenty-one State Road Transport Undertakings (STUs), which are selected on the basis of availability of data and volume of their operation. Output (measured in terms of pass.-kms) produced by the sample STUs are usually more than 80 percent of the produced output of all...

This paper analyzes the relationship between the three main enterprise systems (Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Management (SCM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM)) and firms' innovational performance. It studies whether the enterprise systems have impacts on process as...

This paper analyzes the relationship between service innovation and different types of enterprise software systems, i.e. standardized enterprise software designed to fit one certain business sector and enterprise software specifically customized for a single firm. Using firm-level data of a...