H ousing is a commodity with unique features and its market, especially in urban areas, is characterized by unique business cycles that differentiate it from other commodities. On one hand, housing market can be deeply influenced by economic shocks, and on the other hand, the sheer size of housing investments makes the economy particularly vulnerable to any shock in this market. Henc...

Some researchers view information systems (IS) offshoring as extension of onshore IS outsourcing. However, others have the opinion that IS offshoring has its unique characteristics because of which, we cannot extend research made in onshore IS outsourcing without testing its applicability to the offshore context. This tension motivates our research to examine whether determinants of IS offshori...

The view that small businesses create the most jobs remains appealing to policymakers and small business advocates. Using data from the Census Bureau’s Business Dynamics Statistics and Longitudinal Business Database, we explore the many issues at the core of this ongoing debate. We find that the relationship between firm size and employment growth is sensitive to these issues. However, our main...

Information technology (IT) training has been identified as a key factor for the success of IT applications and the most frequently applied coping mechanism to handle changing IT. However, there is a question as to how IT training has to be conducted to obtain desired outcomes (higher levels of IT value). This paper analyses the presence of IT training sources used by firms and examines the inf...

Background: The utility of statistical process control (SPC) methods has received growing interest in the healthcare community to help improve clinical and administrative processes. SPC charts are chronological graphs of process data that are used in many other industries to help understand, control, and improve processes and that, although based in statistical theory, are easy for practitioner...

the term business intelligence (bi) can refer to various computerized methods and processes of turning data into information and then into knowledge, which is eventually used to enhance organizational decision making. in the last decade, business intelligence has evolved as one of the critical applications in organizations to provide useful insight, support decision-making, and drive organizati...

All businesses, big and small, manage many interactions with different communities each day. The enterprise interacts with employees, consumers, small businesses, mid-size businesses, and large businesses (see figure 1). These interactions are critical to the daily operation of the business. Inefficiencies that exist in the interactive processes of the enterprise create several business problem...

This study was conducted with the objective of identifying the major determinants of loan repayment in Small Scale Enterprises (SSEs) with particular reference to SSEs in one of Kenya’s most dynamic informal business hub, Kariobangi Division in Nairobi. In order to achieve this objective, primarily data were collected from 50 randomly selected respondents by using questionnaires. Descriptive st...

e-banking (electronic banking) is the modified business banking toward e-business (electronic business) banking that actually uses the electronic communication channels such as internet, phones, cell phones and the like. by using this method, the demands of customers such as time independent and high flexible actions are satisfied. in this process, marketing is so important because guiding cust...