Web-based geospatial technology provides the means to enhance the decision making of natural resource managers and the education of natural resource users. This paper discusses the development of a web-enabled application that allows the temporal and spatial representation of raster, vector, and tabular data for natural resource processes and uses through spatially dynamic time series animation...

Employees are a strategic resource for agribusiness firms to achieve sustained competitive advantage (SCA). The resource-based theory (RBT) has emerged as a useful framework to analyze the significance of the human resource system in achieving SCA. However, few empirical studies in agribusiness provide evidence of a relationship between human resource system and SCA. This paper builds off our 2...

The managers of the valuable resources held by museums, archives and libraries compile descriptions of their holdings both so that they can administer and control those resources more effectively and in order to enhance access to those resources by disclosing information about their existence and availability to potential users. The channels through which resource managers provide that informat...

Since more than 10 years energy efficiency is a well discussed research topic in computer science. Because the immediate consumers of energy are hardware resources, these resources have been subject to optimization in the first place. But hardware is in turn used by software, running on top of it. Software offers the interface to the end-user and thus allows to correlate the utility of end user...

One well-known construct for managing shared resources in a parallel system is Hoare's monitorss4], which encapsulate the shared data, operations on it, and synchronization between operations. This paper describes managers, a version of monitors for the declarative language Idd8]. Like monitors, managers provide encapsulation; however, managers make two key improvements critical to parallel exe...

This study explored the information behaviour of business executives particularly those in the managerial positions in the services and banking industries in Malaysia. Among the components of information behaviour investigated involved their information use – types, sources, and criteria. The investigation was also extended to understand about effective information management and the need for i...

Background for this study is the increased complexity in policing that has become more knowledge-based and more professional in the last decade. Aim of this paper is to present empirical results from a study of attitudes of police managers to different leadership roles in their jobs in two police districts in Norway. A questionnaire was developed and administered among police managers in two po...

Employees who are motivated perform their jobs better. IS managers can enhance and leverage the human resource capability of their departments by understanding the role motivation plays in creating a responsive and productive IS staff. This article describes an effective method for managers to identify the motivational issues for individual employees. In addition, it proposes strategies for adm...

• A dominant theoretical paradigm in academic strategic management circles is the Resource-Based View (RBV). This paper reviews the literature of this position and the extent to which the RBV may be seen as a source of practical guidance for managers seeking competitive advantage and strategic success. • The theories of management academics should be of practical value to managers, otherwise su...

Recruitment is an important issue of human resource management (HRM). The main purpose of recruitment is to obtain talent from internal and external of organization. However, excellent talent maybe will be missed at the pre-screening process under lack of complete information for managers to judge. In this paper, a personnel selection tool based on fuzzy data mining method is proposed to assist...