Due to the rapid growth in the electronic business, information technology has become necessary for building efficiency and effective transactions among organizations. Consequently, Cloud Computing (CC) becomes a very important area to achieve the organization’s performance. The process of integration between Cloud Computing (CC) and the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a new research ...

The new business landscape ushered in by ebusiness has revolutionized business operations but, to date, has not integrated well with internal knowledge management initiatives. Through the development of e-business focused knowledge, organizations can accomplish three critical tasks: (1) evaluate what type of work organizations are doing in the e-business environment (know-what); (2) understand ...

The advent of highly advanced AI and robotics has the potential to completely alter course human history. Life, work, leisure as we know it will be turned upside down. Some people believe this might usher in a golden era wealth, leisure, scientific discovery. There is growing social discontent worry about losing their employment, privacy, independence. People, businesses, whole countries all fe...

In this paper we outline an e-Tourism environment that takes a community-driven approach to foster a lively society of travellers who exchange travel experiences, recommend tourism destinations or just listen to catch some interesting gossip. Business transactions such as booking a trip or getting assistance from travel advisors or community members are constituent parts of this environment. Al...

The relation between universities and business has been in the public debate for some time. Many authors (Perkmann, 2007, Bonaccorsi and Piccaluga, 1994, Blumenthal et al., 1996, Webster, 1994, Urayaa, 2010, Etzkowitz, 2008) emphasize the new role of universities, their influence in the economy and society, the need for a pro-active approach, for strategic thinking when drawing the long-term pl...

Our paper applies new institutional economics theory to a unique data set of the world‘s low-income economies to examine the association between host governments‘ social policies and their ability to attract foreign direct investment. We add to this another new data set to explore the direct and indirect role of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the business-society-government interface. ...