AbstractEntrepreneurship requires work motivation, entrepreneurial learning and entrepreneurship commitment to improving business performance in various types of businesses, especially the activities fishing communities. This study used a purposeful sample 70 respondents focused on fishermen who use boats as equipment sea. The results indicate that motivation directly partially have significant...

A business ecosystem's healthiness may be attributed to the superior financial performance of a firm. This paper develops the concept of a business ecosystem's healthiness as an organizational capability and empirically examines the association between healthiness and a firm's financial performance with the moderating effect of IT capability. To do this, a business ecosystem's healthiness is co...

Expanding procurement networks involving many countries, organizations and people impose challenges on procurement e-business systems. Firstly, the classic document exchange based connection approach across company borderlines is still both time consuming and costly. Secondly, today’s systems provide limited support for people networking dimensions, combining structured and unstructured activit...

Business process performance evaluation is a key step towards assessing and improving e-business operations. In real-scale scenarios, such evaluation requires the collection, aggregation and processing of vast amounts of data, in particular audit trails. This paper aims at enabling such evaluation by integrating workflow technology with data warehousing. We first present a data model for captur...

Predicting the performance of the contractor is very important for both the contractor and the owner especially in highly competitive markets. The research presented in this paper offers a new model for contractor performance prediction. The model developed here utilizes qualitative as well as previously unconsidered quantitative measures about the contractors’ performance. The model makes use ...

Embedded systems operating on high data workloads are becoming pervasive. ECA rule engines provide a flexible environment to support the management, reconfiguration and execution of business rules. However, modeling the performance of a rule engine is challenging because of its reactive nature. In this work we present the performance analysis of an ECA rule engine in the context of a supply cha...