When Do Outside CEOs Underperform? From a CEO-Centric to a Stakeholder-Centric Perspective of Post-Succession Performance

From Process-Centric to Data Centric Replication

A Performance Centric Introduction to Cloud Computing

Cloud computing refers to Internet based development and utilization of computer technology. It is a style of computing, in which dynamically scalable (and often virtualized) resources are provided as a service over the Internet. The concepts behind cloud computing incorporate Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), respectively. In to...

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Scaffolding Stakeholder-Centric Enterprise Model Articulation

Involving stakeholders in enterprise modeling, besides rendering valid models, also helps stakeholders articulate and align their views on their organization. This requires that stakeholders are able to understand and actively perform conceptual modeling for representing their views on enterprise structure and behavior. The specific skills required for this should not be taken for granted and n...

Internet Banking: A Customer-Centric Perspective

Many financial institutions are actively developing new electronic banking products for their retail customers. These efforts are can succeed only if their managers focus the promotion of the new services toward those customers who are most likely to find them attractive. The analysis of a 6-branch financial institution presented in this study suggests that institutions are vulnerable to loss o...