Introduction This paper proposes a research program on Business Process Innovation: Towards Global Supply Chain Intelligence. Few words are more ubiquitous in business or society today than " innovation ". This reflects that businesses are striving for ways to survive and thrive in an increasingly complex and connected world (IBM 2006). Most industrial supply chains today are globally scattered...

Web services provide a standardized way of accessing functionality over networks. Most beneficial is their use if many Web services are composed in order to develop an application. Due to their nature, Web services can be used to support businesses if their composition matches the underlying business processes. However, the activities related to composition as well as design of a corresponding ...

While there have been increasing studies on the impact of financial technology (FinTech), limited research has explored how FinTech supports economic empowerment for informal businesses. Drawing institutional logics and a case study mobile money—a innovation—this develops model money-driven empowerment. We argue that this is important to explain those at bottom pyramid, who are often neglected,...

New technology allows small businesses to use many of the same information systems employed by large enterprises. In doing so small businesses open themselves up to many threats that were traditionally associated with large corporations. It is imperative to their continued success that they recognize these pitfalls and take steps to address this issue. This paper examines some of those threats ...

E-tailers refer to small and medium size enterprises or individual entrepreneurs primarily conducting businesses on online shopping platforms. Although many works on e-marketplaces have been done, theory-driven studies that explain e-tailers’ source of competitiveness are relatively scarce. The current work developed an integrative theoretical model in which online social capital, structural as...

We live in an age in which the value of information and knowledge has far surpassed that of physical goods. Information resources have become a key differentiator of successful businesses. Information technology (IT) and information systems (IS) are now integrated in almost every aspect of business, from planning to analysis and design, operations management and strategic decision making. Even ...

Existing enterprise information technology (IT) systems often inhibit business flexibility, sometimes with dire consequences. In this position paper, I argue that operating system research should be measured, among other things, against our ability to improve the speed at which businesses can change. I describe some of the ways in which businesses need to change rapidly, speculate about why exi...

Technical developments and advancements in the IT industry such as Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) have made businesses more flexible and agile. Adoption of the SOA framework, along with new tools and technologies, has increased enterprise agility and enabled businesses to gain a competitive edge. However, enterprises that are bound to legacy systems are often constrained by the lack of fle...

Is never-ending innovation really the key to the ultimate success? Reading marketing and technological innovation literature, it is easy to get the impression that businesses today cannot survive without the continuously innovating processes and technology that new products are based upon. Yet, it seems that truly successful businesses know better. Asked about the rate of innovation and measuri...

We investigate the effects that regional start-up activity has on employment in new and in incumbent businesses. The analysis is performed for West German regions over the 1987-2002 period. It shows that the effects of new businesses on employment in the incumbents are significantly positive and that this indirect effect on incumbent employment leads to more jobs than what is created by the new...