Environmental Management and Business Strategy: Structuring the Decision-Making Support in a Public Transport Company

A Study of the impact of Knowledge Management Infrastructures and Dimensions of Improvement of Managers' Decision-making on the Knowledge management status in the Iran Public Libraries Foundation

Purpose: To determine the impact of the knowledge management infrastructures and the dimensions of improvement of managers' decision-making on the status of knowledge management in the public libraries affiliated to the Iran Public Libraries Foundation. Method: This research is a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical sample of the research was selected by using the cluster random sa...

Decision Support for Environmental Management

Cultural implications of business strategy-making

The central issue in strategy formulation and implementation process, or strategy-making, is the identification of environmental forces and the preparation of a plan of action to deal with them. This necessitates scanning the environment for gathering information. Environmental scanning should enable the firm to identify these forces. Doing this not only calls for information gathering, but als...

Decision Making Methodology in Support of the Business Rules Lifecycle

The business rules that underlie an enterprise emerge as a new category of system requirements that represent decisions about how to run the business, and which are characterized by their business-orientation and their propensity for change. In this paper, we introduce a decision making methodology which addresses several aspects of the business rules lifecycle: acquisition, deployment and evol...

Environmental Management Systems: Opportunities for Improved Environmental and Business Strategy?

Less than four years after publication of ISO 14001, thousands of organizations worldwide have adopted the standard. In this article, researchers working with the National Database on Environmental Management Systems (NDEMS) review some preliminary data on organizations’ experiences with EMS adoption and implementation. Their findings indicate that, although organizations may face hurdles in im...