today, every enterprise needs to have its own business model. a business model explains what exactly the costumers want, how they want it and how the company can satisfy them. this can actually leads to the industry's competitive advantages and help the enterprises to revive them. in the late decades the prevalence of e-commerce leads it to be known as a tool to organize the business and s...

small business and entrepreneurship play critical role in stimulating economic activity, creating jobs, alleviating poverty and uplift living standards in africa. it is widely accepted that the micro and small enterprise (mse) sectors have the potential to provide a livelihood for a considerably large number of poor rural and urban women in ethiopia. women account for the larger share of the in...

A firm is called to have stock price crash risk if the firm has a tendency to experience a sudden drop in its stock price. In this study, the relation between the firm-level of business strategy and future stock price crash risk Is examined, as well as the effect of stock overvaluation on the relationship between business strategy and crash risk investigated. Using the strategy index and crash ...

the best deal. Nowhere is more real than today business environment which affect the success or otherwise of any business venture. Several authors have attributed failure of businesses particularly small and medium scale enterprises to various factors ranging from training of the entrepreneur to exposure and experience while some analysts opined that business environment could impact on small a...

implementing infrastructures of e-marketing has been considered in this study. they are classified into external (related to government) and internal (related to enterprise) categories based on the factors’ level and are classified into strategic and operational categories based on the factors’ nature. 35 factors have been finalized as the basis of the questionnaire. the importance and position...

In the traditional ISD field several methods have been proposed. According to Lif (1998) these ISD methods offer little or no support for usability factors. The ISD methods traditionally focus on how to structure data and how to describe business flows or business processes. They seldom deal with how users should interact with an IS in a business, or how interfaces should be designed in order t...

business related decisions become more perplexing as societies advance. environmental ambiguities which stem from new business models intensify the above mentioned complexity so far as many of the affecting variables and their interrelationships are non linear and complicated. in this circumstances data analysis and knowledge extraction is not practical via traditional methods. this research co...

in this study, we have sought to provide a comprehensive conceptual model of the concept of success in the field of home business. In this regard, we have adopted a qualitative approach based on grounded theory (GT) as a comprehensive method for collecting data with 18 home-based business owners (in the field of kilim weaving, pottery and packaging). And key informants of such businesses underw...

Achieving business-IT alignment is one of the main purposes and also challenges of organizations. Many studies have indicated the importance of aligning information systems (IS) function with other business functions. The main purpose of this survey is evaluating business-IT alignment focusing on social and technical dimensions of business-IT alignment in Bank Mellat. The data was collected thr...