In an unstable environment, enterprises are gradually realizing that there should be major changes in how they deploy their strategic resources to compete in the knowledge economy. In this paper, the role of competitive intelligence in South African manufacturing enterprises is examined. The difference between the industrial and the knowledge economy and the competitive intelligence function in...

Followed by changing environment and global competition, performance of enterprises in allocating more market share to themselves has shaped to be a strategic issue for most of competitive enterprises including production companies. In that case suggestion of a new method or methods that increases the performance of production companies, especially in their production speed, can be critical fac...

This study explores the differences in pollution control performances of industrial enterprises with various ownerships in China – State owned (SOE), collectively or community owned (COE), privately owned (POE), foreign directly invested (FDI) companies as well as joint ventures. A survey was conducted of approximately 1000 industrial firms in three provinces in China, which collects the detail...

Wearable computers like smart glasses or smartwatches enable the use of information systems in application scenarios in which information technology has rarely been used until now. The reason for this is, that users are able to interact with the devices handsfree, e.g. by using voice commands. A hands-free use is in particular relevant for enterprises in the industrial sector, as industrial wor...