Nowadays, water and electricity are closely interdependent essential sources in human life that affect socio-economic growth and prosperity. In other words, electricity is a fundamental source to supply a seawater desalination process, while fresh water is used for cooling this power plant. Therefore, mutual vulnerability of water treatment and power generation systems is growing because of inc...

This study aims to analyze cost efficiency in conventional banking. The data of this consists 23 banks Indonesia period 2009-2017. research method is the Stochastic Frontier Approach (SFA) model. results show that foreign exchange private are most cost-efficient. State-owned commercial not yet cost-efficient banks. Bank determined by labor costs and interest costs. Higher will increase total be...

Often e-Procurement systems are implemented because authorities’ guidelines, tools or legal setting mandates them. The growing relevance of e-Procurement systems and tools in public health care organisations (HCOs) has raised much attention in business practice and the academic literature, also related to the improvement of public health care services and community welfare (e.g. Henriksen et al...

This paper summarizes academic literature on Internet banking drivers and found that there is a need to conduct research on corporate customer Internet banking adoption behaviour. The empirical data were collected from a questionnaire survey of 223 business firms selected from the telephone directory in Klang Valley area in Malaysia. This study examines the relationship between Internet banking...

Electronic platforms for e-procurement are increasingly being adopted especially in markets seeking for cost reductions like in the automotive market. In this segment, platforms like General Motors' SupplyPower, Covisint, which is operated by European and American Manufacturers, or the Bosch dominated SupplyOn represent efforts for building electronic supply chains, integrating e-procurement an...

In the EU, most large firms use e-business applications, such as enterprise resource planning and online procurement. Based on e-business watch data for EU-4 (Germany, France, Italy and the United Kingdom) we find that the actual use of enterprise resource planning and online procurement is positively correlated with labour productivity growth. Furthermore, we find that certain e-business appli...

In the retail banking context, convergence of technologies has given birth to different channels of distribution like Automatic Teller machines (ATM), internet banking, and mobile banking. This enables the customer to avail the banking services at any time and any where. These technological interfaces are known as self service technologies (SSTs). Customers availing banking services through the...

Optimizing the internal supply chain for direct or production goods was a major element during the implementation of enterprise resource planning systems (ERP) which has taken place since the late 1980s. However, supply chains to the suppliers of indirect materials were not usually included due to low transaction volumes, low product values and low strategic importance of these goods. With the ...

This study makes sense of how information technology (IT) investment supports and relates to SCG and its conceptions (transactional and relational). The authors conducted a qualitative research using exploratory case studies in two large Brazilian companies and two major suppliers. Top supply chain executives of these companies were interviewed. We found differences in how these companies inves...