In today's complex, dynamic and constantly changing environment, companies need to design and take systems and methods that can help them adapt themselves to the changeable and dynamic situation of competitive markets, and therefore improving marketing performance and generally the company’s performance. In this regard, business intelligence systems as a new method and tool can be considered as...

The South African Facilities Management (FM) industry has seen increased operational strategy complexity from single-site contractors providing basic janitorial services to highly integrated and bundled FM service providers.  Despite these major changes, very little research has been conducted on evaluating the effectiveness of FM in innovating, integrating and aligning business strategies to a...

first principle calculations were performed using density functional theory within the local spin density approximation (lsda) to understand the electronic properties of au(100)+tbt system and compare the results with au(100) and bulk au properties. band structure, the total dos and charge density for these materials are calculated. we found that the homo for au(100)+tbt becomes broader than au...

We discuss the novel problem of supporting analytical business intelligence queries over web-based textual content, e.g., BI-style reports based on 100.000’s of documents from an ad-hoc web search result. Neither conventional search engines nor conventional Business Intelligence and ETL tools address this problem, which lies at the intersection of their capabilities. “Google Squared” or our sys...

Clusters of business locations, which considerably impact daily activities, have been prominent phenomena. Yet the question of how and why firms cluster in certain areas has not been sufficiently studied. This paper investigates the emergence of clusters of business locations on a supply chain network comprised of suppliers, retailers, and, consumers. Krugman (1996) argued that urban concentrat...

Background. This research aimed at identifying the consequences of strategic entrepreneurship in sports business. Objectives. The objective of the research is to identify the consequences of deployment of strategic entrepreneurship in sports business. Method. A qualitative research approach was employed. Data collection was done through interview as well as research background. The population...

The countercyclical monetary policy is a policy that economists recommend to adopt in order to slow down the economic fluctuations. The aim of this study is to address the question that, in the presence of fiscal dominance and considering institutional quality (IQL), what the optimal monetary policy should be during the business cycles? To find the appropriate answer, first, in the framework of...

Dynamic Balanced Scorecard (DBSC) is an effective business performance management control tool for dealing with business uncertainty, performance monitoring, evaluation and forecasting. DBSC has been proposed and utilized extensively over the years as an effective tool to manage and control the dynamics of business processes (BP) and their performance. However, there is little evidence of its a...

Agriculture is one of the pillars of economics and its development requires a particular attention to all production factors. This paper aims to provide a systematic and conceptual model that is based on a conceptualization of the field. For this purpose, the theory and methodology based on data derived from field observations and interviews drawn from a systematic conceptual model of key infor...