International strategic alliances have become overwhelmingly used in today’s business environment. However, most of these alliances feature a very high rate of unsuccessfulness. Usually, business partners’ cultural distance is regarded as one of the main reasons that lead these alliances to their failure. Therefore, it is thought that companies belonging to similar national cultural environment...

This paper proposes a review of the current Industrial Marketing and Purchasing (IMP) paradigm to include the effects of culture in international business. The authors aim to show through evidence and analysis of Chinese business practices that even Chinese culture nuances can be included in IMP models. Indeed the absorption of culture enhances the intersubjective certifiability of network theo...

Business Process Management (BPM) enables a company to successfully align business practices with strategic objectives and increase business performance. Functional silos or roadblocks disappear and the company is better positioned to satisfy all stakeholders – customer, owners, and employees (by Robert M. Curtice, 1997). Over the years, many organizations have tried to find pathways to establi...

Culture predefines the framework of needs, beliefs, and norms in most decisions humans make in their lives. However, the impact of culture often tends to be neglected in the investigation into adaptation of mobile business technologies. This chapter aims to address that lacuna by highlighting cultural differences and their consequences for the diffusion of mobile technologies in business and so...

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Increasingly, business analytics is seen to provide the possibilities for businesses to effectively support strategic decision-making, thereby to become a source of strategic business value. However, little research exists regarding the mechanism through which business analytics supports strategic decisionmaking and ultimately organisational performance. This paper draws upon literature on IT a...

Business process management (BPM) is a key issue for organisations, particularly in a global business environment. In this paper we synthesise a framework for BPM governance and then report two case studies that explore the influence of national culture on BPM governance in India. One case study involves a global outsourcing services company with Indian origins and the other an Indian manufactu...

Business process management (BPM) is a key issue for organisations, particularly in a global business environment. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems provide a viable means for managing business processes. In this paper we synthesise a framework for BPM strategy and governance and then report two case studies that explore the influence of national culture on BPM strategy and governance ...

The capability maturity model integration (CMMI) has become one of the most preferred approaches to software process improvement (SPI). However, the amount of discontinued or delayed CMMIdriven SPI projects is considerable. In this paper we investigate the culture embedded in the CMMI and compare it with the cultures within an implementing organization in Scandinavia by utilising the competing ...