This research paper seeks to investigate the critical success factors of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation in banking sector of Pakistan by identifying internal organizational, technological and individual factors from past studies and then determine their significant impact on successful implementation of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in banking sector of Pakistan. IT infr...

This article investigates the critical success factors of e-procurement---the purchase of goods and services for organizations, which usually represents one of the largest expense items in a firm’s cost structure. Data was gathered using the survey method and a random sample drawn from the membership of the Institute for Supply Management and the Council of Logistics Management. Data was analyz...

Existing literature has given much attention to e-procurement adoption, rather than to the extent of eprocurement adoption. In most countries, e-procurement is being adopted at a slow pace by the corporate world, especially by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) that have traditionally been late adopters of any advanced technologies, due in large part to their resource constraints. This paper d...

This paper considers the uncapacitated lot sizing problem with batch delivery, focusing on the general case of timedependent batch sizes. We study the complexity of the problem, depending on the other cost parameters, namely the setup cost, the fixed cost per batch, the unit procurement cost and the unit holding cost. We establish that if any one of the cost parameters is allowed to be time-dep...

banks' major responsibility, as the largest financial intermediaries, is to provide and allocate resources. this activity has its own risks which cause banks to seek ways of preventing or transferring them to other places. islamic banks as substitutes of conventional banks in islamic countries have, in their turn, faced similar risks. in regard to new evolutions in banking industry and man...

Evidence has shown that Islamic banking is experiencing tremendous development since the last three decades, especially in Malaysia. This study is aimed at investigating factors thatdetermine the Islamic banking performance in Malaysia, particularly in the period of 2006 to 2010. The predictors are loan loss provision to total assets, net loans to total assets, total overhead cost to total asse...

This paper analyses the importance of productive specialisation in explaining cost efficiency differences between banking companies. Taking as reference the Spanish banking sector during the period 1985-96, the study shows that if cost efficiency measurements are corrected for the effect of different specialisation by the estimation of separate frontiers for four different groups of competitors...

In the past decade, electronic mechanisms have started to overtake the conventional methods of procurement for both governments and enterprises because of the cost and time saving effects of e-procurement. Economic theory suggests that the success of e-procurement depends on the number of bidders who participate in procurement auctions. In this paper, the authors investigate the cultural factor...

Mobile banking is a newly added service in the banking sector that facilitates banking via mobile devices. With the tremendous growth in mobile phone usage, banks in the developed world have moved to utilize mobile banking, which makes banking easier, faster, and very cost-effective. Mobile phones have quickly emerged as a successful and popular means of communication in recent years and the re...