Tobias Bucher is research assistant and doctoral student at the Institute of Information Management, Chair of Prof. Dr. Robert Winter, University of St. Gallen (HSG), Switzerland. He holds a Master degree in economics (concentration in information systems and econometrics) from the University of Freiburg, Germany. His research interests include business engineering methods and models, data ware...

Ravi Bapna is the Board of Overseers Professor of Information and Decision Sciences at the Carlson School of Management, university of Minnesota. he received his Ph.D. from the university of Connecticut. Dr. Bapna is the founding academic co-director of the university of Minnesota’s Social Media and Business Analytics Collaborative (SOBACO). his research interests are in the areas of economics ...

The perspective taken in this report is to provide background information on recent efforts toward the convergence of computer science (both theoretical, dealing with algorithm complexity, and applied, dealing with the implementation of algorithms) and micro-economics techniques. We term computational economics the science that explores the intersection of economics and computation. Similarly t...

The Special Issue of the Journal of Information Technology Management (JITM) is publishing very selective papers on information management, technology in higher education, integrated systems, enterprise management, cultural thoughts, strategic contributions, management information systems, and cloud computing. We received numerous papers for this special issue but after an extensive pe...

*Information and Communication technology, Faulty of technology, Policy and management, Delft University of technology, Delft, the netherlands †Institute for Advanced management Systems research, Åbo Akademi University, Åbo, Finland ‡Department of management and Finance, University of murcia, Campus de espinardo, murcia, Spain §Department of Information Systems & Operations management Universit...

Industrial engineering is concerned with analysis, design, and implementation of systems through optimal use of resources—human, material, energy, information, and financial. Systems may range from small units to extremely large operations. In order to accomplish these activities, the industrial engineer must be skilled in mathematics, physical sciences, management, and human relations as well ...

“Due to decades of technology acquisitions to fuel growing businesses, enterprises are now facing a breaking point with their IT systems. Some systems can’t share information and workloads, servers are highly underutilized and the cost of energy is becoming greater than the value of the systems the energy powers. In some cases, nearly 70 percent of companies’ IT budgets can be devoted to managi...