The study investigates the practice of data warehouse system selection decisions for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and large enterprises (LEs) in Taiwan. The increasing number of companies looking for data warehousing solutions to gain a significant business advantage has created a need for systematic method for choosing appropriate data warehouse system. The aim of this study is to...

Cisco IT Case Study / Business Management / Vendor Management: This case study describes the creation of a global vendor management office (VMO) within Cisco. The VMO supports strategic vendor relationships across the IT organization. In the first three quarters of 2004, the VMO saved or recovered US$33M in IT costs and improved several Cisco vendor relationships. Cisco customers can benefit fr...

In this paper, we investigate the effects of four determinants of vendor profitability in enterprise resource planning (ERP) outsourcing projects under two contractual regimes: fixed price (FP) contracts and time and material (TM) contracts. We hypothesize that effect sizes are larger under FP contracts than under TM contracts. From a transaction cost economics perspective, we hypothesize that ...

Platform strategies require the careful design of instruments for governing third parties. We study the effects of a widespread and costly, yet unexplored instrument that potentially enhances the outputs of third parties: developer conferences. We exploit a randomized quasi experiment in the context of Apple’s 2016 “app” developer conference, the so-called “Apple World Wide Developer Conference...

Advances in data science allow for sophisticated analysis of increasingly large datasets. In the medical context, large volumes of data collected for healthcare purposes are contained in electronic health records (EHRs). The real-life character and sheer amount of data contained in them make EHRs an attractive resource for public health and biomedical research. However, medical records contain ...

In this paper is a conceptual framework that examines the antecedents and consequences successful enterprise systems stabilization and production support and test its empirical validity. Top managements support, production strategy, education and training, vendor selection, business process reengineering, project team competence, high cost, change of management, and language barrier were applie...

BACKGROUND Individual physician performance assessment is a vital part of the medical regulation debate. In this context, the patient perspective is seen as a potentially valid component. Yet, the theoretical and empirical evidence base for such patient assessments is unclear. OBJECTIVES To identify and evaluate instruments designed to assess patients' experiences with an individual practisin...

Recently, global e-commerce businesses have been blooming due to the convenience they offer, their product range, and individualized products services offer. To maintain an entire ecosystem, effective platform-vendor relationships should be considered, through which platforms can provide collaborative packages vendors. E-vendor relationship management (eVRM) then developed identify, attract, re...