Information technology is the core enabler for global businesses. Based on an integration of services provided by companies, virtual enterprises are built to achieve business goals. This integration can be supported or even automated, if companies publish a standardized description of the services they offer in a formal, computer-readable way. This paper argues that service orientation offers a...

he aim of this study is to explore the effects of market orientation, quality orientation and learning orientation on firm innovativeness and the mediating effect of the quality orientation in this relation. The research has been conducted via survey. The questionnaires have been send to send to 200 small and medium sized companies in Gebze and Istanbul and 130 responses has been received. The ...

Slowly but surely American and Western European culture is being eased into an approximate acceptance of homosexuality and other non-heterosexual orientations. Great leaps have been taken in the past four decades to improve the quality of life for nonheterosexuals in almost all parts of the developed world However, in those countries which lie on the outside of this small core group of economic...

Background and Objectives: Chronic diseases, such as cancer, are among the factors seriously affecting health and marital satisfaction. Regarding this, the present study was conducted with the aim of modeling marital satisfaction among women with breast cancer in Kermanshah province, Iran. Methods: This descriptive-correlational study was conducted on 250 females with breast cancer referring t...