Salem Chakhar is with the Portsmouth Business School in the Operations & Systems Management subject group. Salem Chakhar has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris-Dauphine (Paris, France), an MPhil degree in Computer Science and Modelling from the High School of Management of Tunis (Tunis, Tunisia), and a degree in Computer Science from the Faculty of Economics and Management, ...

a recent international journal of health policy and management (ijhpm) article by fadi el-jardali and colleagues makes an important contribution to the literature on health system strengthening by reporting on a survey of healthcare stakeholders in low- and middle-income countries (lmics) about systems thinking (st). the study’s main contributions are its confirmation that healthcare stakeholde...

Dezhi Wu is Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the Department of Computer Science & Information Systems, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT, U.S.A. She received her Ph.D. in Information Systems from the New Jersey Institute of Technology. Her current research interests include Electronic Time Management/ Calendar Systems, Asynchronous Learning Networks, Human-Computer Interacti...

the International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (IJITSA) a number of invited and peer-reviewed position papers that outline the focus areas of the journal. Additionally, we include in this short introduction the insights of two highly respected systems researchers and shapers of the systems approach: Professor Russell Ackoff, Anheuser-Busch Emeritus Professor of M...

Alexander Serenko is Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada. Nick Bontis is Chair at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this study is to update a global ranking of 27 knowledge management and intellectual capital (KM/IC) academic journals. Design/methodology/approach – T...

This editorial summarizes the content of the Special Issue on Quality Management of Semantic Web Assets (Data, Services and Systems) part of the Semantic Web Journal.