In today’s world decision support and knowledge management processes are strategic and interdependent activities in many organizations. The companies’ interest on a correct knowledge management is grown, more than interest on the mere knowledge itself. This paper proposes a Knowledge Management System based on Bayesian networks. The system has been tested collecting and using data coming from p...

Many organizations form collaborative ICT-enabled networks in order to improve their performance, and we generally understand their motives and benefits in doing so. However, there is little empirical research that focuses on how collaborative relationships are sustained over the longer term. This paper is a first step in addressing this deficiency. Based on a review of the literature on strate...

In 1989, Eastman Kodak signed a deal with IBM for the technology giant to manage all of its IT systems. The results proved that Kodak made the right move, having lowered its costs on ICT personnel as well as on its systems and telecom maintenance, while also managing to focus on the part of its business that created real value and differentiating itself from the competition. The successful expe...

Today’s networked economy is a strategic combination of many factors, with electronic platforms and relationships underpinning competitive advantage. Enabled and driven by information and communication technologies (ICT) and connectivity, the networked economy is challenging the fundamental bases of established government frameworks, conventional business practices, and traditional marketing di...

The development and deployment of innovative Information and Communication Technologies’ (ICT) applications and services is becoming the key factor for growth and employment in all parts of Europe. Our work has the strategic goal to set up an e-Learning service (web-based courses) that will build Information and Communication Technologies’ skills and competences needed for the implementation of...

The special issue on ICT-based strategies for environmental conflicts to be published in the journal Strategic Behavior and the Environment contains four peer-reviewed articles devoted to the analysis of multi-agents decision problems arising from the exploitation of environmental resources, and where Information and Communications Technologies are crucial for the design and the implementation ...

Stag hunt and chicken games are canonical representations of two kinds of strategic interactions. In stag hunt, aggression feeds on itself, and mutual fear escalates into con‡ict. Chicken is a model of preemption and deterrence. With complete information, these games have multiple Nash equilbria. Using standard arguments from the Industrial Organization literature, we …nd su¢ cient conditions f...

In this paper we argue that there are two basic types of Business-toBusiness integration (B2Bi), each of which requires a different information systems development approach. A framework is set up to structure the development of intra and interorganizational systems. The framework has three dimensions, the first one showing business and ICT (Information and Communication Technology), the second ...

Aim of this paper is to analyse electronic marketplaces from an organisational point of view. The marketplaces are herein considered as a particular form of electronic network and are analysed in the light of transaction cost theory. Besides considering the three classical effects identified by Malone et al. (the communication effect, the electronic integration effect, the electronic mediation ...

We implement an endogeneous switching-regression model for labour productivity and firms’ decision to use business–to–business (B2B) e–commerce. Our approach allows B2B usage to affect any parameter of the labour productivity equation and to properly take account of strategic complementarities between the input factors and B2B usage. Empirical evidence from 1,394 German firms shows that firms u...