E-learning is nowadays recognized as one of the key components of Enterprise Knowledge Management platforms. Given a project specification, the platform should be able to suggest a project team, to measure human resources competence gaps and to contribute to reduce them by creating personalized learning paths. In this paper we propose an XML based Multi-Agent System to perform the following tas...

Original scientific paper In this paper an empirical study was carried out to study the Cloud Computing (CC) perception in Turkey. To this extent this study intends to determine the perception of Information Technology decision makers such as Chief Executive Officers and Chief Information Officers by means of a survey by questionnaire approach to explore 98 both public and private IT executives...

Although the existing literature supports relationship between chief executive officers' (CEOs') sustainability orientation (SO) and entrepreneurial behaviour, empirical studies exploring how SO drives firm environmental performance (FEP) are lacking. In addition, potential moderating effects of firm-level factors on this less understood. We contribute to filling gap by examining political conn...

With ever increasing application of information technologies in every day activities, organizations face the need for applications that provides better security. The existence of complex IT systems with multiple interdependencies creates great difficulties for Chief Security Officers to comprehend and be aware of all potential risks in such systems. Intelligent decision making for IT security i...

The University of Southern California (USC) Center for Enrollment Research, Policy, and Practice, dedicated to research and action that advances the societal benefit of enrollment policies and practices in higher education, sought to shed light on professional preparation, career path and development issues related to chief admission officers and enrollment managers.1 Literature on these elemen...

The study maps out orthodontic care in Finnish municipal health centres in 2001, describes changes during the previous ten years reported by chief dental officers, and assesses the views of orthodontists on current public orthodontic services. The data were collected by questionnaires sent to all health centres and all orthodontists in Finland. Of all 0-18-year-olds, 11% were receiving orthodon...

The growth in the skewness of the distribution of income in the US dates from the past decades when the remuneration to chief executive officers (CEOs) has increased faster than the growth in firm size. An explanation for this rapid increase is the contagion of changes in social norms which, through a process of social comparison, propagates higher pay among corporate executives. By analyzing t...

We survey 1,050 Chief Financial Officers (CFOs) in the U.S., Europe, and Asia to directly assess whether their firms are credit constrained during the global financial crisis of 2008. We study whether corporate spending plans differ conditional on this surveybased measure of financial constraint. Our evidence indicates that constrained firms planned deeper cuts in tech spending, employment, and...

Notwithstanding its sectoral importance to wealth creation and employment, research on the role of management accounting in small medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is limited. This paper first examines perceptions chief financial officers (CFOs) impact information technology (IT) tools practices (costing, budgeting, performance management). Secondly, it how CFOs perceive these are affecting their...

This article explores whether new firms managed by founder-chief executive officers (CEOs) are more likely to survive than those successor-CEOs in times of crisis. Drawing on the concept ‘resilience’ adversity, we argue that founder-CEOs increase likelihood firm survival, especially Using a sample Japanese founded during 2003–2010 period, examine impact founder-CEO succession survival. The anal...