Abstract This paper offers a more nuanced analysis of employee promotion decisions; specifically, how they are affected by firm size, gender and stages within the business cycle. Drawing on data from Portugal, we find that during times adverse macroeconomic conditions, prospects in all firms decline. Within large firms, women likely to be promoted economic downturns, reflecting ‘glass cliff’ hy...

Investment in information technology (IT) infrastructure has in recent years become a strategic organizational choice. Yet, there exists little understanding of the organizational factors that determine IT infrastructure capabilities and investment requirements. Using a filed survey of both business and IT executives, this study tests a research model that links a set of organizational factors ...

Not properly accounting for differences between business owners and nonbusiness owners in studies of household wealth can lead to erroneous conclusions about the significance of different saving motives. Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics from the 1980s and 1990s, we show that within samples of both business owners and non– business owners, the amount of precautionary savings wi...

Abstract. Business value attainment should be a key consideration when designing software processes. Ideally they are structured to meet organizational business goals, but it is usually difficult to integrate the process and business perspectives quantitatively. This research uses modeling and simulation to assess process tradeoffs for business case analysis. A model for commercial software ent...

The value and impact of business-to-business e-commerce are not as easy to measure as business-to-consumer e-commerce. As Subramaniam and Shaw pointed out in their article, eight factors affected the value of a Web-based B2B procurement system. These eight factors are type of process, complexity of process, size of the business unit, dominant type of B2B process, degree of centralization, integ...

Electronically executed business processes are frequently implemented using the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL). These workflows may be in control of crucial business processes of an organization, in the same time existing model checking approaches are still immature i.e. they either seem to loose to much information during the generation of the analysis model, or the state space exp...

E-commerce stands for electronic commerce and pertains to trading in goods and services through the electronic medium. B2B, B2C, C2C and similar opportunity help consumer preferences and consumer markets developing electronic infrastructure for challenges of the future. E-commerce has revolutionized business, changing the shape of competition with internet (The NET) ,the computer communication ...

Acquisition of software intensive systems demands significant work on requirements prior to establishing the contract. The acquirer needs to understand the domain, needs, and constraints of the project clearly in order to make realistic size and effort estimates, and to have a solid foundation for defining contract requirements. In this study, an approach for requirements elicitation based on b...

In this paper we estimate a stochastic production frontier in a panel of manufacturing firms in Côte d’Ivoire. Our main interest is on the impact of the business environment on technical efficiency levels. Moreover the chosen modeling allows us to derive managerial efficiencies, and then define most efficient firms independently of business environment influences. A non-neutral modeling of the ...