Industrial production plays an important role for achieving a green economy and the sustainable development goals. Therefore, the nascent transformation of industrial production due to digitalization into a so-called Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is of great interest from a sustainable development point of view. This paper discusses how the environmental dimension of a sustainable develo...

The aims of this study is to evaluate information technology (IT) governance implementation using the COBiTs’ maturity model, investigate the perceived Security Threats that face these companies and measures the causality between them. An Empirical Survey using self-administered questionnaire has been carried out to achieve the study objectives. The study results reveal that Jordanian industria...

Climate change and unsecured energy supply are topics that become increasingly important in today’s society. Although renewable energy technologies may be a long-term solution, more efficient energy use potentially makes a high and economic contribution to the given challenges in the short term. New CO2 regulations, rising energy prices and environmentally aware customers make energy efficient ...

Followed by changing environment and global competition, performance of enterprises in allocating more market share to themselves has shaped to be a strategic issue for most of competitive enterprises including production companies. In that case suggestion of a new method or methods that increases the performance of production companies, especially in their production speed, can be critical fac...

It has been generally known that the agent research community provides powerful theories, algorithms and techniques that have got an immense potential for the deployment in various industrial applications. Sadly noted, the number of agent research centers and groups as much as the number of agent researchers by far outnumbers the commercial companies, CTO, and entrepreneurs that have the courag...

This study is intended to analyse several mechanisms available to companies in order to appropriate the results of their innovative activities. These mechanisms include patents, industrial secret, cost and time of imitation and continuous innovation. Specifically, this paper focuses on studying the factors that determine the choice of one appropriation method over another. To this end, we propo...