The evolution of corporate intranets has tremendous implications for organization-wide information sharing, communication, collaboration, and application support. While some organizations continue to use intranets primarily for publishing and posting internal documents and corporate policies, a few are unleashing the power of intranets to access knowledge sources, collaborate on projects, and t...

The market success of the enterprises depends on the ability to support their business processes. This involves the requirement of a seamless, well-ordered operation of the whole company. Operation is greatly affected by the quality of its IT support. The information should be available, handled confidentially, preserving its integrity, have to be processed in a reliable, efficient, effective w...

Using data from publicly traded South Korean corporations for the period 1980-94, this paper finds evidence that increases in financial liberalization that accompanied the more general process of financial globalization have significantly reduced the maturity structure of corporate debt contracts, thus lending partial empirical support to the idea that financial liberalization can be well descr...

While stakeholder models of corporate governance support long-term employment, recent reforms have promoted shareholder-oriented corporate governance worldwide. Will reform cause employment to converge on a market system? This paper presents a comparison of the linkages between corporate governance and employment patterns in 22 countries using the QCA method (Qualitative Comparative Analysis). ...

This study examines how the corporate link between a foreign subsidiary and its corporate members (parent and peer subsidiaries) is influenced by the subsidiary’s competitive strategy in a specific host country. The mainstream logic, especially that of Michael Porter, suggests that corporate link should be stronger when a multinational enterprise (MNE) focuses on cost leadership than on product...

This research provides new insight in the application of IT to optimize the corporate strategy of notaries in the Netherlands. Since the forced liberalization of prices and the freedom of establishment introduced by the 1999 Notary Act, notaries have become entrepreneurs. Notaries are forced to adopt a competitive corporate strategy. This has brought new opportunities for the application of IT....

Weaving the Semantic Web the research community is working on publishing publicly available data sources as RDF data on the Web. To facilitate the adoption of Semantic Web technologies in corporate environments some issues on ontology engineering have to be addressed, e.g., support unexperienced employees to work collaboratively on ontologies. Although, existing methodologies structure well the...

New emerging IP services based on differentiated services and the IP security architecture offer the level of communication support that corporate Internet applications need nowadays. However, these services add an additional degree of complexity to IP networks which will require sophisticated management support. The management of enhanced IP services for their customers is thus an emerging imp...

Users frustrated with corporate helpdesks are utilizing internet searches and social media sites for support purposes. There is a wealth of support-related content available publicly; supplier’s web sites, blogs, product forums are just some examples. HP is in an optimal position to deliver a platform that utilizes the publicly available content to automatically answer corporate users’ support ...

We propose an architecture for allowingmobile hosts to connect to a corporate IT system via a limited access network. The connection is made through a Mobile Host Support System that makes the mobile host appear to the central system as just another xed client. The MHSS not only helps mitigate \mobility" problems such as disconnections, limited bandwidths and security, but also assists the mobi...