Corporate image is an important organizational resource that enables to create, strengthen and sustain competitive advantage. Different antecedents have been identified for corporate image in the literature including quality of products and services, consumer consideration or distribution system. Green supply chain management appears to be an antecedent of corporate image too. This study examin...

This study explores the under-researched relationship between corporate governance and firm performance in tourism companies. We employ instrumental variable modelling using 2SLS for publicly listed firms in five countries in the Middle East. Board independence is found to be positively related to firm performance and stock performance, suggesting that having independent directors among board m...

This paper presents an approach to using model-generated workplaces (MGWP) in tandem with service-oriented architectures in order to meet interoperability needs in a corporate environment. More specifically, the interoperability study and research undertaken is based on a use case scenario related to the process of product portfolio management (PPM) in a large enterprise of the Telecommunicatio...

This article presents SAMOVAR (Systems Analysis of Modelling and Validation of Renault Automobiles) SAMOVAR is a tool for capitalising knowledge in the field of automobile and is based on the development and exploitation of corporate memory. It is based on several ontologies which structure knowledge and it uses the search mechanisms of CORESE (Conceptual Resource Search Engine) to exploit such...

Finding an appropriate insurance product on the Web can be a difficult and time-consuming process. The majority of insurers continue to build sites that are structured on a corporate orientation rather than customer needs. Customers are left on their own to figure out how to analyse and compare different proposals. In this paper we analyse the application of machine learning techniques in model...

To manage the evolution of the organisational structure and the ITsystems of an enterprise different kinds of models are used. Key to this paper is the observation that despite the promises and some elaborate approaches to corporate modelling, many organisations fail to implement a stable long-term activity to keep its models current. A number of influences are identified. Very important is the...

In the context of Knowledge Management, we carry out a Corporate Memories (CM) project for the Company CIRTIL. Our purpose is to focus on the modelling of the application domain. It is built as a domain ontology with a structure supporting a semantic model based on ontological relationships. In this paper we, present our S model which permits to model knowledge and to index documents. We also s...

Much foreign direct investment (FDI) takes the form of mergers and acquisitions (M&A). It is commonplace in finance to view acquisitions as manifestations of the market for corporate control. Following on that insight we propose a model of FDI in which headquarters bid to control overseas assets. We derive an equation for bilateral FDI stocks that resembles the recently developed fixed effects ...