evaluation of corporate performance has been one of the main issues in managing decision making. nowadays, evaluation of the suppliers is a completely strategic process because organizations rarely change their suppliers. thesuppliers also do their best to remain stable in the loop of supply chain. hence, it is important to evaluate the suppliers and not something to be done once at a time. it ...

Self-securing storage prevents intruders from undetectably tampering with or permanently deleting stored data. To accomplish this, self-securing storage devices internally audit all requests and keep all versions of all data for a window of time, regardless of the commands received from potentially compromised host operating systems. Within the window, system administrators are guaranteed to ha...

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This instructional case, based on an actual firm’s experience (name changed), is intended to challenge student thinking with regard to the extent to which information technology (IT) can demonstrably contribute to organizational performance and productivity and to which users of IT can relate their investment decisions to measurable outcomes. Relationships between an organization’s investment i...

Nowadays users consumption style for video and multimedia applications is strongly changing. Users are consuming content through multi-screen and are heavily counting on wireless and mobile devices for video streaming and interactive video and multimedia applications. This necessitates more intelligence in the service and the network infrastructure to better suit a differentiated users consumpt...

Con uence of orthogonal rewriting systems can be proved using the Finite Developments Theorem. We present, in a general setting, several adaptations of this proof method for obtaining con uence of `not quite' orthogonal systems.

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Strategy Dynamics (Warren, 2008) provides a quantitative, resource-based approach to understanding a firm’s performance over time. This paper describes a strategy analysis of Starbucks Corporation using Strategy Dynamics. It demonstrates the usefulness of this approach in addressing business performance issues for a realworld company. The strategic architecture, a key artifact of the approach, ...

This paper presents a model of the stakeholder corporation and analyzes the equilibrium of an economy with stakeholder firms. The analysis is based on a model of a production economy that differs from the standard approach where uncertainty is modeled by an exogenous probability distribution over states of nature. The property that differentiates it from the standard model (which justifies the ...