the survival of the firms depends on the adoption of techniques and methods for encouraging learning among people. on other hand, it is necessary to have an attitude for interaction and endeavour in order for the learning to be built and conserved. therefore, committed people in organizations have always been emphasized as a driving force of the extension and creation of learning. the aim of th...

So far rather weak tendencies towards an infrastructure for external ratings by independent agencies have been observed in Europe in recent decades. Especially for small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs), thus far there has been no possibility of obtaining an objective rating. The reason is that information is very asymmetric between investors and capital demands on small and medium-sized comp...

Mobility as a Service (MaaS) is often seen promising solution to address societal and environmental challenges. Despite the importance of quantifying its potential benefits, few previous works have focused on impacts environment, all them considered large cities. This study aims forecast diffusion MaaS in medium-sized city quantify consequent reduction pollutant emissions for commuting trips. A...

We study the wage structure during economic transition in the context of Chinese cities and examine the effect of China’s urban housing reforms on the urban wage structure (1988-2005). We find that these reforms, which untied access to housing from state-sector employment, shifted approximately 17% of the labor force from the state sector to the private sector, increasing the private sector lab...

The market for enterprise systems (ES), continues to grow in the post millennium era as businesses become increasingly global, highly competitive, and severely challenged. Although the large enterprise space for ES implementation is quite stagnated, now all of the ES vendors are focusing on the small to medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector for implementations. This study looks at the current ES...

Small to medium sized companies require a business control mechanism in order to monitor their modus operandi and analyse whether they are achieving their goals. A tool for the decision support process was developed based on a multi-agent system that incorporates a case-based reasoning system and automates the business control process. The case-based reasoning system automates the organization ...