Enterprise architecture (EA) provides a blueprint of an organisation’s current and desirable future IT infrastructure, systems, data, processes and capabilities, together with a roadmap for achieving the desirable future state. Despite significant interest and investment in EA, organisations still have difficulty articulating the business benefits of EA. In this research in progress paper we co...

Organizations are increasingly in search of ways to derive more business values from IT investments and the need for capabilities (ITC) is surging. ITC critical significant build enterprise agility promote organizational performance. However, capability always treated as causal factor already existing there few studies on how created evaluated. Appropriate evaluation necessary an organization m...

a tug which, according to towage contract, renders salvage services to tow, is not, principally, entitled to reward, although she has, practically, rescued the tow from danger. notwithstanding this, section 176 of iranian maritime act says: a tug has no right to remuneration for assistance to or salvage of the vessel she is towing or of the vessel cargo, except where she has rendered exceptiona...

Despite the importance of absorptive capacity (AC) for firms’ competitiveness, its antecedents are not yet fully understood. AC is a multidimensional construct, consisting firm's capability to acquire and assimilate new external knowledge (potential AC), followed by transform exploit it (realized AC). Building on insight that different dimensions vary in their nature needs we predict working wi...

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) is a material that widely used in energy absorbing applications, especially helmets, despite its non-renewable origin. Cork and derivatives, however, are proposed as substitute for foam due to their renewable origin easy recyclability. In spite of the low-environmental footprint cork there insufficient data on mechanical behaviour. Consequently, under dynamic quasi-st...