E-business has a significant impact on managers and academics. Despite the rhetoric surrounding e-business strategy formulation mechanisms, which support reasoning of the effect of strategic change activities to the maturity of the e-business models, are still emerging. This paper describes an attempt to build and operate such a reasoning mechanism as a novel supplement to e-business strategy f...

Crude oils and source rocks from the Northern and offshore depobelts of the Niger Delta basin, Nigeria have been characterized based on the distribution of pyrene and its derivatives by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. Moreover, the crude oils have been characterized by the dominance of pyrene over fluoranthene while fluoranthene generally predominated over pyrene in the rock samples. Also...

It is accepted among scholars that coping changes as people mature during adolescence, but little is known about the relationship between maturity and coping. The purpose of this paper was to assess a model, which included dispositional coping, coping effectiveness, and cognitive social maturity. We predicted that cognitive social maturity would have a direct effect on coping effectiveness, and...

We are interested in the kind of well-being that can occur as a person approaches death; we call it "existential maturity." We describe a conceptual model of this state that we felt was realized in an individual case, illustrating the state by describing the case. Our goal is to articulate a generalizable, working model of existential maturity in concepts and terms taken from fundamentals of ps...

Does good IT governance improve the effect of IT? This paper presents the IT Organization Modeling and Assessment Tool (ITOMAT) which has been created to overcome operationalization and subjectivity weaknesses in the Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT) framework. ITOMAT was applied to assess IT governance maturity in four case studies. Simultaneously, external metr...

interoperability refers to the ability to provide services and to accept services from other systems or devices. collaborative enterprises face additional challenges to interoperate seamlessly within a networked organization. the major task here is to assess the maturity level of interoperating organizations. for this purpose the maturity models for enterprise were reviewed based on vendors’ re...

Source rocks from a marine depositional setting from Palaeozoic formations in the Holy Cross Mountains region (Midlands, Poland) were analysed for aromatics using capillary gas chromatography±mass spectrometry (GC±MS). The occurrence of two novel series of aromatic hydrocarbons in these sediments, namely phenyl derivatives of fused ring polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PhPAH) and polyphenyls (...

Focusing on Knowledge Intensive Business Processes, we present empirical research into how an organization's Business Process Management Maturity (BPM Maturity) and Knowledge Sharing Culture (KS Culture) can moderate the impact a Knowledge Management System has on Business Process Effectiveness. Current research in the literature has focused mainly on main effects and thus far ignored these int...

This paper reviews, compares, and integrates existing Knowledge Management Maturity Models (KMMM) to propose a General KMMM (G-KMMM), which focuses on assessing the maturity of people, process and technology aspects of KM development in organizations. An accompanying assessment tool is also developed to facilitate practical application. The utility of G-KMMM is explored in a case study of a lar...