Although information technology investments in business organizations are growing rapidly, IT executives in business organizations have great difficulties in justifying increasing IT spending and in measuring the benefits of these investments. This research study aims to investigate current...

Growth in IT outsourcing is expected to remain high in the coming years as there have been widespread market claims that IT outsourcing can reduce firms' costs by over 30 percent. The scope and range of IT outsourcing services are also increasing, as evidenced by the promotion of ASP...

Large organizations have invested substantial financial resources ininformation technology (IT) over the last few decades. However, many organizationshave discovered that they have not yet fully reaped the B2BEC benefits from their IT investments. A model of IT evaluation management is proposed...

Biotechnology is a rapidly expanding field of science that has led to the formation of alarge number of companies that together form a significant sector within the Australianeconomy. Even though there has been considerable growth in the Australian biotechnologysector as a whole, a large...

Purpose – The purpose of this research is to determine how project managers attribute information technology (IT) project success and failure. Design/methodology/approach – IT personnel from large Australian organisations completed an adapted version of the Attributional Styles...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify and examine the antecedents and consequence of regional animosity and their impacts on regional media preference. Design/methodology/approach – Computer-assisted telephone interviews were conducted with randomly selected adult residents in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of parental and peer norms on idol worship as well as the effect of idol worship on the intention to purchase and obtain the idol’s music products legally and illegally. Design/methodology/approach – A stratified, two-stage,...