Currently, Business-to-Consumer Electronic Commerce, Business-to-Business Electronic Commerce and Electronic Business are widely adopted as new strategies to gain more business advantages over the competitors. Nevertheless, the success in deploying such electronic business applications does not rely only on business contribution but involves many business factors as well. The purposes of the st...

This paper considers the influence of a range of factors within and around the firm on business decision making relating to the environment. Within the firm, it emphasises the importance of governance structures, corporate cultures and organisational capacities. Around the firm, it stresses the importance of the incentives, imperatives and informational pressures that emerge from governments, m...

NTRODUCTION In 1989 China passed through another cycle of abrupt economy correction and a severe crack down on political dissidents in Tienanmen Square. Some people were confused over these issues and concluded that for a Hong Kong economically dependent on an ailing economy managed by officials wearing Chinese jackboots, the future was dim (Mann 1990). This has led some people mistaken that Ho...

In the business Grid environment, the business relationship between a customer and a service provider should be clearly defined. The responsibility of each partner can be stated in the so-called Service Level Agreement (SLA). In the context of SLA-based workflows, the business model is an important factor to determine its job-resource-mapping policy. However, this aspect has not been described ...

Deployment of business process to a mobile environment in a chosen context and in a device independence environment is a difficult task. Business Process is desirable to be deployed to any location or any mobile environment the user tends to be in. The problem in business process deployment is in rapid changes in mobile technologies and user context. In this research we developed and implemente...

This paper presents a review on the Business/IT alignment with the goal of exploring how requirements engineering can help model business environment and how business environment can help perform requirements engineering tasks in order to develop a system which meets business expectations. It discusses ten lessons learned from the Business/IT alignment research area in the context of requiremen...

Information sharing is a crucial precondition for the development of a thriving credit market and for the access to finance by firms. The focus of this paper is the regulation of the exchange of information on firms as intermediated by credit registries. The paper presents different kinds of indices to test their explanatory power for information distribution for a panel of 90 countries. In a s...

Introduction In the modern turbulent business environment, companies are constantly encountering challenges in coping with the changes and complexity in the market. Moreover, the companies have to manage the complexity of their information and communication technology (ICT) environment brought on by the many decades long legacy of ICT, and to assure that ICT supports the business as well as pos...

The first major trend is the Mass Customization, which will necessitate an increased flexibility in the areas of manufacturing as well as marketing. In manufacturing it will become visible through the reduction of lot sizes towards smaller lots for reaching the break-even point between cost and revenue of a given product or variant. In marketing it will lead to the much more efficient utilizati...