In 1994 the creation of a graphical interface for use with the Internet lead to worldwide 1995 Internet related sales of $500,000,000, almost exclusively in the US. Estimates for 2002 sales are in excess of $100,000,000,000 with only 35% being in the US. The majority of current and estimated sales are business to business up from 70 to 75% today to 85 to 90% by 2002. By country, technology, reg...

To remain competitive many businesses in the 1990’s have undertaken business process reengineering projects reorganising one or more parts of their operations. This paper results from a case study of the enterprise-wide review of Mobil Oil Australia Limited to increase profitability and change the culture of the organisation. A radical (to the Oil Industry) business unit organisation structure ...

Economic inequality remains one of this nation’s most pressing problems, and the large number of poor people is a glaring manifestation. While the poverty rate and income distribution fluctuate with the business cycle, the last several decades have witnessed secular increases in inequality; that is, after controlling for the business cycle, the underlying long-term trend is toward a “widening d...

The information systems and technologies (IS/IT) are a decisive platform in the response capacity of organizations to the new management imperatives through new solutions that permit to improve their competitive position. As information management is a highly differentiating area, the present study compares several enterprises of different sectors, located (headoffice or branch) in the Algarve ...

Drawing on a unique set of surveys, this article explores the question of whether Russia’s post-communist business associations are generally antithetical to or supportive of the broad objectives of economic restructuring. Contrary to the most widely cited analysis as to the purposes of collective action in the business community, the survey evidence demonstrates that association members have e...

Information technology (IT) has to face many challenges regarding the increasing business requirements for flexibility, complexity, and availability of IT. Thus, a restructuring of the IT portfolio into IT services is necessary to provide an effective and business-driven IT support. The design of IT service catalogues is generally difficult in the managerial context of an enterprise. The curren...

The total investment of the more than fifty e-commerce startups that entered healthcare supply chain management in the past three years has surpassed $500 million. However, none of these early entrants has delivered on the initial promise of restructuring the entire supply chain, replacing the traditional intermediaries, or at least achieving substantial revenue. This article offers a new busin...

Often, valuable document processing intellectual capital is lost due to staff transitions or project restructuring prior to technology transfer. Furthermore, hardware and software integrity, dependencies, and compatibility are critical components that often impede technology migration. While many open source tools attempt to mitigate these issues, they do not always address specific design need...