Research has shown that firms using e-business achieve considerable returns through efficiency improvements, inventory reduction, sales increase, customer relationship enhancement, new market penetration, and ultimately financial returns. However, there is little systematic research in terms of e-business adoption patterns in firms across countries and industries. This study addresses the resea...

Little research has been conducted so far on causes for errors in business process models. In this paper we investigate on how mainly domain independent factors such as the size or complexity of models influence errors observed in a wide range of existing business process models. In particular, we provide a set of six metrics presumably related to the comprehensibility of both the process model...

We determine the distribution of size and growthrates of German business firms in 1987-1997. We find a log-normal size distribution. The distribution of growth rates has fat tails. It can be fitted to an exponential in a narrow central region and is dominated by finite-sample-size effects far in its wings. We study the dependence of the growth rate distribution on firm size: depending on proced...

Over the last decade, numerous companies have tried to adopt a commercial ERP package in the world-wide e-business and ecommerce environment. However, most of commercial ERP packages are designed for a large-scaled company so that it is difficult to adopt a commercial ERP package in terms of small and medium-size companies. Therefore, it is necessary for a small and medium-size company to seek ...

The number of companies operate on a global scale is on the rise seeking profitable business opportunities in the global arena. Global businesses have unique information requirements due to the integrated businesses activities in geographically dispersed business units, sourcing up to date consolidated information from numerous business processes, operating in different time zones and managing ...

The ubiquity of the Internet has allowed companies of any size to engage in e-business. However, e-business adoption among Small and Medium sized Enterprises (SMEs) is limited because of resource constraints and a failure to understand the strategic value of e-business. In an effort to better understand the value of e-business to SMEs, this paper examines the use of over 100 e-business applicat...

This paper examines the empirical relationship between business cycle volatility and economic freedom across countries. In a diverse sample of 85 countries, the results suggest a significantly negative relationship between volatility and a broad measure of freedom—even after controlling for other determinants of cross-country volatility and using an instrumental variables procedure to account f...

A B S T R AC T This study examined the moderating influence of two top management team (TMT) characteristics, namely managers possessing an MBA education or prior military experience, on the relationships between firm size and corporate criminal activity, and firm strategy and corporate criminal activity. The study utilized data from 184 Fortune 500 companies. The results suggest that both grad...

The number of organizations operating on a global scale is continuously increasing in recent years to exploit business opportunities in the global arena. At the same time, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are being increasingly adopted to support global businesses. However, how well these systems are aligned with business operations of global businesses is not very well established. T...