Valuing hotels as business entities

General Parsed entities: Unfinished Business

General parsed entities seemed like one of the simplest parts of XML when it first appeared, easy to create and use, and more predictable than their SGML counterparts. In the years since, however, parsed entities have become a malingering reminder that DTDs are not yet dead, continuing to demonstrate periodically that XML hasn’t even resolved all of the interoperability issues at the markup lev...

Extracting Essential Business Entities from BPMN Models

Essential Business Entities (EBE)s are part of the subject matter of any organization, and are important part of many software system models representations. In this paper, we present a method to extract the set of EBEs from business models represented using the business process modeling notation (BPMN). The presented method is demonstrated using a case study from the healthcare domain.

Valuing Laws as Local Amenities

The conventional approach to evaluating a law is to examine its effect on proximate behavior. To evaluate a new criminal law, for example, the conventional approach would look to changes in the crime rate. This paper argues instead that laws should be judged by the extent to which they raise housing prices and lower wages. The logic is that the value of a law, much like the value of a lake or a...

The Octopus: Valuing Multi-business, Multi-national companies

Initiatives as Knowledge-Creating Entities

Initiatives are ‘a principle mechanism through which organizations develop new competitive advantages. This paper proposes a view of initiatives as processes that recombine previously disconnected knowledge domains, with the firm’s knowledge base serving as a platform from which the initiative creates its own knowledge base. During this process initiative members couple themselves tighter in or...