Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is a strategic concept for storage of information and documents. ILM is based on the idea that in an enterprise information have different values. Information with different values are stored on different storage hierarchies. ILM offers significant potential cost savings by tiering storage and 90% of decision makers consider implementing ILM (Linden 2006)....

In the New Economy, the network is considered as more important than the firm itself. In this paper the focus is on chain networks which include vertical networks among chain members, horizontal networks with peers, and networking with third parties. Networks have an important role in the diffusion and adoption of innovations, thus they are the locus of innovation. While previous research focus...

ICT platform currently plays a role as a crossover point in business networking, and it enables collaborative consumption that both suppliers of resources and consumers are connected to through social capital. A support organization of tourism resources based on integrated ICT platform enables stable establishment of sharing economy systems. The integrated ICT platform for tourism resources hel...

The United States is in the midst of a technological revolution, driven in large part by rapid advances in microelectronics. There has been much speculation about the impacts of the “information superhighway” on society as a whole, but surprisingly little is known about the potential effects of this technology revolution on the spatial distribution of jobs and people either broadly or in urban ...

The literature on the role of firm level innovation process mostly deals with the production of private goods as opposed to public goods. The innovation paradigms that are currently being encountered endow us with an opportunity to design a framework leading to a model of enabling firms to produce public goods. Public goods face two kinds of problems: one arising due to lack of either administr...

Many researchers are concerned about the appropriateness of traditional research approaches and methodologies in the analysis of a digital economy. Using the Experimental Digital Economy (EDE), a new technology infrastructure that we have developed for a digital economy, we propose a new research methodology, a virtual field experiment, which makes it feasible and effective to test research hyp...

Alter, S., Gal, U., Lipien, D., Lyytinen, K., and Russo, N. L., 2008, in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 267, Information Technology in the Service Economy: Challenges and Possibilities for the 21 Century, eds. Barrett, M., Davidson, E., Middleton, C., and DeGross, J. (Boston: Springer), pp. 349-352. 26 INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND THE SERVICE ECONOMY: A Multidimensi...

-------------------------------------------------------Abstract--------------------------------------------------------A lot of people in the world, mostly Nigerian have a limited knowledge of the crime occurring in cyberspace, known as cybercrime. Cybercrime happens in the world of computer and the Internet. This kind of crime has a severe impact on our economy, lives and society, because our ...

39 he quantity of printer’s ink sacrificed daily in the name of information technology and the new economy makes it difficult to separate fact from euphoria. The forceful reassertion of the business cycle and our current national trauma1 provide an appropriate opportunity for careful reflection about IT and about the future of IT in higher education. The measurable indicators — such as producti...

The advent of peer-to-peer accommodation sharing platforms, like Airbnb, has ushered in a new era in travel worldwide. However, to ensure sustainability in the long term, information asymmetry inherent to such platforms has to be tackled. Currently, accommodation sharing platforms offer a multitude of in-built trust-enhancing cues that may reduce information asymmetry, signal trust and aid pote...