Open PHACTS is a public-private partnership between academia, publishers, small and medium sized enterprises and pharmaceutical companies. The goal of the project is to deliver and sustain an 'open pharmacological space' using and enhancing state-of-the-art semantic web standards and technologies. It is focused on practical and robust applications to solve specific questions in drug discovery r...

The purpose of this paper is to determine the most important factors influencing supportive learning environment in public and private sector organizations on the one hand and to compare the levels of supportive learning environment between private and public sectors, on the other. Since, supportive learning environment is a building block of learning organization, the study, in other words, in...

The purpose of the study is to empirically examine the relationships between key sets of variables known to influence the successful implementation of change management necessitated due to implementation of incremental or radical changes in Government owned manufacturing organizations. The sets of variables are confined to management related barriers. Primary survey data has been collected from...

Over the past decade or so, TQM has been used to focus on improve profits, market share and competitiveness. Whilst TQM is used as a verified approach in creating success within manufacturing and services and it is used for improvement in the public sector, several organizations have failed in implementing TQM correctly; this is due to many reasons such as lack of top management commitment or i...

Is the practice of marketing bad for the economy and, therefore, bad for society? This article explores whether market success and marketing success are compatible. First, we examine the concept of “market success” in the context of the dynamic competition perspective of resource– advantage theory, and we argue that successful markets are characterized by competitive processes that lead to five...

The electronic communications systems that are proliferating throughout modern society offer speed, accuracy and ever diminishing cost. They also present serious problems of security. As the ordinary transactions cond ucted in person, on the telephone or by written co�respondence have come increasingly to be conducted by new kinds of electronic systems the suscepti­ bility of organizations and ...

ICT Infrastructure is a key ingredient for efficient Information and Communication Technology. Information and Communication Technology plays an important role in rapid development and good governance. E-Government means the use of ICT tools and technology to provide e-services with the help of ICT infrastructure including hardware, software, network and communication channels. This study has b...

Propose solutions to problems: "Management consulting is a career in which generalist problem solvers help companies solve their business problems," according to this article from Science Careers [1]. Design and complete projects: "Management consultants help businesses improve their performance and grow by solving problems and finding new and better ways of doing things. It's not just in the p...

The potential for public private sector partnerships is likely to grow. However, despite a number of high profile success stories, promoting partnerships has proved more difficult than many assumed. This paper argues that such partnerships need to be viewed in the framework of an innovation system and a development scenario where networks of agro-enterprises and intermediary organisations will ...