Mobile commerce is a very promising emerging industry. Similar to other emerging industries, it is characterized by a large number of technological, demand and strategic uncertainties. This paper focuses on the strategic uncertainties, where a large number of participating actors are trying to position themselves in the most favourable position in the value system. As a consequence, they are ex...

the main objectives of a profitable organization are its survival, excellence and finally its prosperity. the organizational prosperity depends on performance based on dimensions called abilities and motivations of the organizations. therefore, the organizations need to have contingency integration between those two dimensions. in the past two decades, we have seen different views and models de...

implementing infrastructures of e-marketing has been considered in this study. they are classified into external (related to government) and internal (related to enterprise) categories based on the factors’ level and are classified into strategic and operational categories based on the factors’ nature. 35 factors have been finalized as the basis of the questionnaire. the importance and position...

This paper extends the power theory established in western management literature to study Chinese CIOs’ position power. By conducting case study on six logistics companies, we investigate what CIO position power includes, how CIOs acquire the position power, and determining factors of CIO position power. We find Chinese CIOs typically have three kinds of legitimate position power (i.e., power o...

Before designing a product and selecting marketing strategies, a company must conduct consumer studies in order to determine the optimum combination of product benefits desired by consumers. Due to large market size and the various sought-after product benefits, a company may also need to properly analyze different market segments in order to survive and succeed in a competitive environment. It...

Random mechanisms have been used in real-life situations for reasons such as fairness. Voting and matching are two examples of such situations. We investigate whether desirable properties of a random mechanism survive decomposition of the mechanism as a lottery over deterministic mechanisms that also hold such properties. To this end, we represent properties of mechanisms—such as ordinal strate...

In this paper, we examine how the competitive industry environment shapes the way that digital strategic posture (defined as a focal firm’s degree of engagement in a particular class of digital business practices relative to the industry norm) influences firms’ realized digital business strategy. We focus on two forms of digital strategy: general IT investment and IT outsourcing investment. Dra...

BACKGROUND The Spanish Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (AEDV) has decided that a Strategic Plan is needed to help the association adapt to new circumstances and anticipate future developments. OBJECTIVES 1) To position the AEDV as a medical association that can exert an influence in everything related to dermatology. 2) To contribute to the development of the specialty, strengthening t...

By the early twentieth century, Schumpeter had already stressed the importance of innovation for a sustainable development of enterprises. Innovation is especially important for information and communication technology (ICT) companies as their business model is based on rapidly changing technology. They therefore often profit from innovation developed in intra-company research organizations. Ho...