This paper reports on a research-in-progress investigation of the extent to which trends in information and communication technology (ICT) investments impact the future trends of three workforce demography measures in emerging societies: (1) the proportion of administrative and managerial positions held by women in those societies; (2) the proportion of professional and technical positions held...

The pharmaceutical industry is knowledge and research-intensive. Due to technological, socio-political and organisational changes there has been a continuous evolution in the knowledge base utilized to achieve and maintain competitive advantages in this global industry. There is a gap in analysing the linkages and effects of those changes on knowledge creation processes associated with pharmace...

Abstract The article contains a literature review of the most relevant and important trends in contemporary management and, based on this background, some possible directions for determining how to run processes specific defense organizations are highlighted. As methodological framing, an applied research (information collection using Web science bibliometric processing build conceptual picture...

Over the past two decades, development of emerging economies as drivers global economic growth has been one most fundamental trends. Emerging account for more world's exports, including technology while country firms have heightened their profile in innovation landscape [1], [2], [3], [4]. Such changes required building substantial technological and engineering capabilities, but this is not ent...

This study attempts to discover the pattern of rural library usage among rural youth in Malaysia and to determine the problems that are associated with such usage. The findings of this study provide an insight into youth usage of rural library services. The most obvious pattern that resulted from the findings is the connection between library usage and the availability of reading materials. Fur...

ICT has taken the center stage in almost every aspect of human endeavor. ICT help banks improve the efficiency and effectiveness of services offered to customers, and enhances business processes, managerial decision making, and workgroup collaborations, which strengthens their competitive positions in rapidly changing and emerging economies. This paper considers the impacts and trends of ICTs o...

social capital is a new concept that’s been important in management literature in recent years. the importance of this concept has led to increase the researchers’ trends to develop models and diagnose new indexes. the main object of this research is exploring and designing a model to achieve foregoing goal. social capital development in universities and higher education centers as fundamental ...

China now is one of the most important places where software outsourcing businesses are flourishing. However, the subcontracting in the current software outsourcing practices has not received enough attentions. This research attempts to further the understanding on this issue. Mixed empirical research approaches were used to explore the extent and the impacts of the outsourcing subcontracting. ...

Departing from the self-portrayal of the private security business as a normal, non-political sector at the service of states and other legitimate clients, this article argues that the rise of the private security business reinforces general trends towards techno-managerial, de-politicized, and militarized security practices. Even when firms behave by their own books, security privatization rec...

Retailers, from fashion stores to grocery stores, have to decide what range of products to offer (assortment planning) and what prices to charge (price optimization). New business trends, such as mass customization and shorter product life cycles, make predicting demand more difficult, which in turn complicates assortment planning and price optimization. We propose and study a stochastic dynami...