In recent years, increasing numbers of luxury groups have adopted sustainable practices in their supply chains (sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, distribution, servicing, waste and recycling). However, the report from Greenpeace International organization (2014) indicates that some luxury brands/companies did not actively conduct sustainable practices to produce items, which is likely attribu...

The Enterprise AID for assessment, improvement, and design methodology is a systems science-, operational test and evaluation-, and multicriteria decision analysis-based approach to design and deployment of performance measurement systems (PMSs) tailored to specific enterprises pursuing any or all of enterprise assessment, improvement, or design. Its two phases of design and deployment sprang f...

Requirements engineering (RE) deals with the software requirements elicitation, validation and verification processes and implementation of elicited requirements. The RE process, for value-based software (VBS) development, is one of the highly complex and non-linear processes which mainly depends on the key stakeholders. VBS systems are extremely different from traditional systems due to their ...

T measurement of customer lifetime value is important because it is used as a metric in evaluating decisions in the context of customer relationship management. For a firm, it is important to form some expectations as to the lifetime value of each customer at the time a customer starts doing business with the firm, and at each purchase by the customer. In this paper, we use a hierarchical Bayes...

Over the years there has been an increasing call for understanding, measuring and managing value of IT in the overall business context. Increasing adoption of IT with its ever expanding influence on what the enterprises can do with new technological pieces has increased the value of IT to such an extent that most enterprises now regard IT as central to their business strategy. However, in the w...

The concepts of social value creation and sustainability are acquiring a growing relevance in the vision shared by tourism industry’s major stakeholders. Our aim was to determine hybrid impact-value model capable measuring product through use indicators impact stakeholder actions during process creating generating products. An initial static is complemented second dynamic vision, based on measu...

This paper discusses different types of Stakeholders of F/LOSS, their needs, the value, usage, and obligations that stakeholders have for different types of F/LOSS licenses. Stakeholders include Developers: Individuals, Projects, Embedded Systems. Vendors: Dominant, Niche, F/LOSS. Packagers. End Users. Organisations: Disseminators, Internally, Externally Used .