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Information Resources Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications (4 Volumes)

Information Resources Management Association (USA)
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-965-1, ISBN13: 9781615209651, ISBN10: 1615209654, EISBN13: 9781615209668
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Obtaining, storing and processing information is critical to an organization's success and profitability. Ongoing innovations in information technology challenge managers, practitioners, and researchers to create and adapt to new policies, strategies, and solutions for information management.

Information Resources Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools and Applications is a comprehensive, four-volume reference addressing major issues, trends, and areas for advancement in information management research. Collecting research from hundreds of leading scholars, this reference aims to encompass essential topics in the discipline and provide theoretical queries to promote further study. This multiple-volume work contains chapters investigating human factors in IT management, as well as IT governance, outsourcing, and diffusion.

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1.
Deborah J. Armstrong (Florida State Unviersity, USA), H. James Nelson (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA), Kay M. Nelson (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, USA), V.K. Narayanan (Drexel University, USA)
The software development process has undergone a considerable amount of change from the early days of spaghetti code to the present state of the art of development u... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ram Kumar (University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA), Haya Ajjan (University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA), Yuan Niu (University of North Carolina-Charlotte, USA)
There is significant interest in managing IT resources as a portfolio of assets. The concept of IT portfolio management (ITPM) is relatively new, compared to portfol... Sample PDF | More details...
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Stavros T. Ponis (National Technical University Athens, Greece), George Vagenas (National Technical University Athens, Greece), Epaminondas Koronis (University of Warwick, UK)
Relevant literature suggests that the field of knowledge management (KM) at the service of contemporary organizations is characterized by a plethora of diverse frame... Sample PDF | More details...
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Yves Barlette (GSCM-Montpellier Business School, France), Vladislav V. Fomin (Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania)
This chapter introduces major information security management methods and standards, and particularly ISO/IEC 27001 and 27002 standards. A literature review was cond... Sample PDF | More details...
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Calin Gurau (GSCM – Montpellier Business School, France)
The continuous evolution of theory and practice has modified the existing organizational paradigms and has introduced new models which attempt to explain how informa... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jose M. Framinan (University of Seville, Spain), Jose M. Molina (University of Seville, Spain)
Enterprise resource planning systems can be defined as customizable, standard application software which includes integrated business solutions for the core processe... Sample PDF | More details...
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Dezhi Wu (Southern Utah University, USA)
Time never has been an easy concept, since each of us has different time perceptions and experiences. Individual time management stories can vary dramatically becaus... Sample PDF | More details...
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Klara Antlova (Technical University, Czech Republic)
The objective of this chapter is to emphasize issues connected with adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) as a strategic tool contributing to fu... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mujgan San (The State Planning Organization, Turkey)
As every technological development, information and communication technology also offers new life patterns to human beings. One of them is related to business and it... Sample PDF | More details...
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Fortunato Sorrentino (Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy)
Personal knowledge management (PKM) is a conceptual framework applicable to personal knowledge. It is about taking an individual responsibility towards one’s compete... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jean-Pierre Booto Ekionea (University of Quebec in Montreal, Canada), Deborah E. Swain (North Carolina Central University, USA)
Knowledge capitalization has become a major economic driver in business today and has created enormous requirements for organizations as they reconsider their goals... Sample PDF | More details...
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Edurne Loyarte (VICOMTech Visual Communication Interaction Technologies Centre, Spain), Olga Rivera (University of Deusto, Spain)
Communities of practice (CoPs) have been taken into account by both practitioners and academics during the last ten years. From a strategic point of view, CoPs have... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kenneth Owen (Lakehead University, Canada), Robert Willis (Vancouver Island University, Canada)
This chapter examines three important aspects of folksonomies; common design factors found in folksonomies, developmental patterns of mature folksonomies, and the id... Sample PDF | More details...
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Emad M. Kamhawi (Zagazig University, Egypt)
Over the past few years, the marketplace and the trade press have recognized the value derived from using enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems for decision mak... Sample PDF | More details...
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Hannah Standing Rasmussen (University of Western Ontario, Canada), Nicole Haggerty (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Knowledge management (KM) is a critical practice by which a firm’s intellectual capital is created, stored and shared. This has lead to a rich research agenda within... Sample PDF | More details...
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Padmal Vitharana (Syracuse University, USA), Mark A. Mone (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)
Literature presents attributes of effective quality management in building software systems. The value of the capability maturity model (CMM), ISO 9000, and total qu... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kaveh Mohammadi (Islamic Azad University of Sanandaj, Iran), Amir Khanlari (University of Tehran, Iran), Babak Sohrabi (University of Tehran, Iran)
Implementing knowledge management or knowledge-sharing projects in an organization require significant organizational prerequisites. Lacking proper infrastructures a... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mark Salisbury (University of New Mexico, USA)
This article describes a framework for managing the life cycle of knowledge in organizations. The framework emerges from years of work with the laboratories and faci... Sample PDF | More details...
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Anne Lämmer (sd&m AG, Germany), Sandy Eggert (University of Potsdam, Germany), Norbert Gronau (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Enterprise systems are being transferred into a service-oriented architecture. In this article we present a procedure for the integration of enterprise systems. The... Sample PDF | More details...
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N. Sahli (Dhofar University, Sultanate of Oman), G. Lenzini (Telematica Instituut/Novay, The Netherlands)
This chapter surveys and discusses relevant works in the intersection among trust, recommendations systems, virtual communities, and agent-based systems. The target... Sample PDF | More details...
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Arla Juntunen (Helsinki School of Economics, Finland)
In this study, a Finnish telecommunication company is analyzed from 1990-2007. Discussing the major developments in technology, society and firm-level decisions, thi... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rogério Atem de Carvalho (Fluminense Federal Institute, Brazil), Björn Johansson (Center for Applied ICT, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
After the implementation peak of ERPs that occurred during the pre- and post-Y2K periods, the high-end ERP market started to saturate and major ERP vendors started t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kam Hou VAT (University of Macau, Macau)
Today companies large and small have taken to open source as a way to increase collaboration, reduce development costs, provide a friendly platform for their product... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rui M. Lima (University of Minho, Portugal)
Organizations have production planning and control (PPC) processes supported by systems that execute, mainly, repetitive calculations. Based on these calculation res... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kyootai Lee (University of Missouri - St.Louis, USA), Kailash Joshi (University of Missouri - St.Louis, USA), Mueun Bae (Inha University, Korea)
Most of new information systems development is now being undertaken with Web-based architectures. The objective of this study is to identify and assess the relative... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jeffrey A. Schiffel (The Boeing Company, USA)
The semantic normal forms of organizational semiotics extract structures from natural language texts that may be stored electronically. In themselves, the SNFs are o... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mladen Varga (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Data management in always-on enterprise information systems is an important function that must be governed, that is, planned, supervised, and controlled. According t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mark I. Hwang (Central Michigan University, USA)
In the last two decades many organizations installed enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems as a means to integrate their back-office operations. The need for in... Sample PDF | More details...
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Judit Olah (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA), Ole Axvig (Consultant, USA)
In a modern enterprise environment, many information resources are available to people working to produce valuable output. Due to technology proliferation, remote wo... Sample PDF | More details...
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Annapoornima M. Subramanian (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Pek-Hooi Soh (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) such as electronic knowledge repositories (EKR) have brought substantial changes to the way organizations leverage their knowledge... Sample PDF | More details...
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Vladimír Modrák (Technical University of Košice, Slovakia)
Nowadays, the implementation of business process management modern tools in companies becomes a mater of acceptation of an effective organization management. The fir... Sample PDF | More details...
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Emma Parry (Cranfield School of Management, UK)
The use of technology within human resource management has grown considerably over the last decade with the majority of organizations now using some form of HR infor... Sample PDF | More details...
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Stacie Petter (Georgia State University, USA), Vijay Vaishnavi (Georgia State University, USA), Lars Mathiassen (Georgia State University, USA)
Information technology (IT) project disasters make worldwide headlines, and billions of dollars have been lost due to poor project implementations. The Standish Grou... Sample PDF | More details...
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Celeste See-pui Ng (Yuan-Ze University, R.O.C.)
A typical packaged software lifecycle, from the client-organization perspective, is packaged software selection followed by implementation, installation, training, a... Sample PDF | More details...
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César Camisón-Zornoza (Jaume I University, Spain), Montserrat Boronat-Navarro (Jaume I University, Spain)
Knowledge management is a fundamental capability in today’s evolving markets. Management needs to understand which organizational processes are necessary to trigger... Sample PDF | More details...
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Enrique Paniagua Arís (Universidad de Murcia, Spain), Belén López Ayuso (Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Spain)
This work presents a methodology for auditing technological knowledge management that allows the proposed solution to be aligned with the competitive strategy of org... Sample PDF | More details...
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Peter O. Orondo (Acclaim Consulting Group, Inc., USA)
Most companies would agree that securing their information assets is worth some investment. It is thus plausible to assume that low levels of IT security investment... Sample PDF | More details...
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Holly McCracken (The University of Illinois at Springfield, USA)
Generally believed critical to facilitating multi-dimensional instructional experiences for participants in a range of educational environments (for example, as acce... Sample PDF | More details...
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Roy Gelbard (Bar-Ilan University, Israel), Jeffrey Kantor (Bar-Ilan University, Israel, and University of Windsor, Canada), Liran Edelist (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
This study proposes and prototypes a model that integrates these three aspects of software projects by automatically mapping SE objects and accounting–costing object... Sample PDF | More details...
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Christian Thomsen (Aalborg University, Denmark), Torben Bach Pedersen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
The industrial use of open source Business Intelligence (BI) tools is becoming more common, but is still not as widespread as for other types of software. It is ther... Sample PDF | More details...
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Maria Manuela Cunha (Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Higher School of Technology, Portugal), Goran D. Putnik (University of Minho, School of Engineering, Portugal), Paulo Silva Ávila (Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Institute of Engineering, Portugal Table of Contents)
The virtual enterprise model is an emerging approach in answer to the new requirements of the business environment, relying on dynamically-reconfigurable partnership... Sample PDF | More details...
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Christoph Quix (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Xiang Li (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), David Kensche (RWTH Aachen University, Germany), Sandra Geisler (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Data streams are continuous, rapid, time-varying, and transient streams of data and provide new opportunities for analysis of timely information. Data processing in... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tran Khanh Dang (National University of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
In an outsourced database service model, query assurance takes an important role among well-known security issues. To the best of our knowledge, however, none of the... Sample PDF | More details...
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Faith-Michael E. Uzoka (University of Botswana, Botswana)
The use of multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) methodology is not uncommon in organizational decisions. However, information systems (IS) researchers have focused... Sample PDF | More details...
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Marija Jankovic (Ecole Centrale Paris, France), Pascale Zaraté (Toulouse University, France), Jean-Claude Bocquet (Ecole Centrale Paris, France), Julie Le Cardinal (Ecole Centrale Paris, France)
Recent years we can hear a lot about cooperative decision-making, group or collaborative decision-making. These types of decisions are the consequences of developed... Sample PDF | More details...
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David G. Vequist IV (University of the Incarnate Word, USA), Mark S. Teachout (University of the Incarnate Word, USA)
This article describes a training innovation that combines research on advances in information communication technologies (ICTs) and leading-edge training techniques... Sample PDF | More details...
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Li Yang (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA), Chang Phuong (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA), Amy Novobilski (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, USA), Raimund K. Ege (North Illinois University, USA)
Most access control models have formal access control rules to govern the authorization of a request from a principal. In pervasive and collaborative environments, t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tor Guimaraes (Tennessee Tech University, USA)
Emerging agent-based systems offer new means of effectively addressing complex decision processes and enabling solutions to business requirements associated with vir... Sample PDF | More details...
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Murray E. Jennex (San Diego State University, USA)
Knowledge management systems (KMSs) support the various knowledge management (KM) functions of knowledge capture, storage, search, retrieval, and use. To do this, KM... Sample PDF | More details...
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Markus Kress (University of Karlsruhe, Germany), Sanaz Mostaghim (University of Karlsruhe, Germany), Detlef Seese (University of Karlsruhe, Germany)
In this chapter, the authors study a new variant of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) to efficiently execute business processes. The main challenge of this applicati... Sample PDF | More details...
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P. H. Osanna (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), N. M. Durakbasa (Vienna University of Technology, Austria), M. E. Yurci (YILDIZ Technical University, Turkey), J. M. Bauer (National University of Lomas Zamora, Argentina)
The importance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is today far beyond any discussion in countries all over the world - in European countries as well as in... Sample PDF | More details...
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Cynthia T. Small (The MITRE Corporation, USA), Andrew P. Sage (George Mason University, USA)
This paper describes a complex adaptive systems (CAS)-based enterprise knowledge-sharing (KnS) model. The CAS-based enterprise KnS model consists of a CAS-based KnS... Sample PDF | More details...
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Serdal Bayram (Siemens, Turkey), Melih Kirlidog (Marmara University, Turkey), Ozalp Vayvay (Marmara University, Turkey)
In today’s world, it is essential for a business to provide a seamless and continuous service to its customers. Such an always-on service is required, not only for t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Constance Kampf (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Project management processes offer specific sites for understanding the interplay of the social and the technical. This article focuses on the connection between kno... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sumita Dave (Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Management and Technology, India), Monica Shrivastava (Shri Shankaracharya Institute of Management and Technology, India)
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) today is being adopted by business organizations worldwide with a view to maximize their capabilities. But more often than not the... Sample PDF | More details...
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S. Parthasarathy (Thiagarajar College of Engineering, India)
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) covers the techniques and concepts employed for the integrated management of businesses as a whole, from the viewpoint of the effe... Sample PDF | More details...
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Simon Polovina (Sheffield Hallam University, UK), Richard Hill (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
It is known that 80-85% of all corporate information remains unstructured. As such, many enterprises rely on information systems that cause them to risk transactions... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ernst Bekkering (Northeastern State University, USA), Allen C. Johnston (University of Alabama Birmingham, USA), Merrill Warkentin (Mississippi State University, USA), Mark B. Schmidt (St. Cloud State University, USA)
Technology adoption by individuals has traditionally been regarded by information systems researchers as a choice between adoption and non-adoption of a single techn... Sample PDF | More details...
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Boris Jukic (Clarkson University, USA), Nenad Jukic (Loyola University Chicago, USA), Miguel Velasco (Loyola University Chicago, USA)
This article introduces and discusses the process and system conceptualization framework for adoption and ongoing evaluation of enterprise information systems, based... Sample PDF | More details...
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Pei-Di Shen (Ming Chuan University, Taiwan), Tsang-Hsiung Lee (National Chengchi University, Taiwan), Chia-Wen Tsai (Yuanpei University, Taiwan), Yi-Fen Chen (Yuan Christian University, Taiwan)
Knowledge management is increasingly being mentioned in practice and research as a mechanism for gaining competitive advantage. Not only the high-tech industry needs... Sample PDF | More details...
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Zhang Li (Harbin Institute of Technology, China), Wang Dan (Harbin Institute of Technology, China), Chang Lei (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
In 1999, Peter Drucker said: “A new Information Revolution is well under way. It is not a revolution in technology, machinery, techniques, software or speed. It is a... Sample PDF | More details...
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Klaus D. Niemann (act! Consulting GmbH, Germany)
A comprehensive enterprise architecture management has strategic and operative aspects. Strategic tasks cover the identification of appropriate fields of activity fo... Sample PDF | More details...
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Daphna Shwarts-Asher (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Niv Ahituv (Tel Aviv University, Israel), Dalia Etzion (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
There has been a transformation from individual work to team work in the last few decades (Ilgen, 1999), and many organizations use teams for many activities done by... Sample PDF | More details...
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Stephen V. Stephenson (Dell Computer Corporation, USA), Andrew P. Sage (George Mason University, USA)
This article provides an overview of perspectives associated with information and knowledge resource management in systems engineering and systems management in acco... Sample PDF | More details...
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Wei Shen (University of Cincinnati, USA), Qing-An Zeng (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Integrated heterogeneous wireless and mobile network (IHWMN) is introduced by combing different types of wireless and mobile networks (WMNs) in order to provide more... Sample PDF | More details...
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Diana Heckl (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Germany), Jürgen Moormann (Frankfurt School of Finance & Management, Germany)
The financial services industry faces significant competitive pressures. Economic and political influences, incessant regulation, and fast changing markets make for... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rajiv Khosla (La Trobe University, Australia), Mei-Tai Chu (La Trobe University, Australia), Shinichi Doi (NEC Corporation, Japan), Keiji Yamada (NEC Corporation, Japan), Toyoaki Nishida (Kyoto University, Japan)
Business process management (BPM) is a common approach used in dynamic and complicated environment throughout the organizations’ operation. Knowledge Flow Networks (... Sample PDF | More details...
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Penelope Markellou (University of Patras, Greece), Konstantinos Markellos (University of Patras, Greece), Eirini Stergianeli (University of Patras, Greece), Eleni Zampou (University of Patras, Greece)
The Web is revolutionizing the way citizens and businesses interact with government agencies and organizations. Nowadays, a wide spectrum of governmental services is... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sebastian Stein (IDS Scheer AG Altenkesseler, Germany), Christian Stamber (IDS Scheer AG Altenkesseler, Germany), Marwane El Kharbili (IDS Scheer AG Altenkesseler, Germany), Pawel Rubach (Telekomunikacja Polska S.A., Poland)
The application of semantic technologies promises boosting business process management because semantic integration of business and IT is achieved. To enable the vis... Sample PDF | More details...
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Alan Dyer (EWA, Australia)
Enterprise Architecture is the organising logic for business processes and Information Technology infrastructure, the purpose of which is to create a more effective... Sample PDF | More details...
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Shahron Williams van Rooij (George Mason University, USA)
This chapter reports the results of a case study in which the final project outcomes of small virtual instructional design teams using Project Management in an onlin... Sample PDF | More details...
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Laura Lally (Hofstra University, USA)
This article develops the concept of crisis compliance (CC)—defined as making appropriate use of IT, and non-IT methodologies to predict, prevent, and prevail over d... Sample PDF | More details...
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Drazena Tomic (Mostar Faculty of Economics, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Brano Markic (Mostar Faculty of Economics, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
In today’s business environment, it is usual that data relevant to business is stored on different hardware, inside different databases, different data warehouses, i... Sample PDF | More details...
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Gunilla Widén-Wulff (Åbo Akademi University, Finland), Reima Suomi (Turku School of Economics, Finland)
This chapter works out a method on how information resources in organizations can be turned into a knowledge sharing (KS) information culture, which can further feed... Sample PDF | More details...
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Roberto Biloslavo (University of Primorska, Slovenia), Mojca Prevodnik (University of Primorska, Slovenia)
Knowledge management is a set of purposeful activities led by management in order to enable and support generation, storage, transfer and application of knowledge wi... Sample PDF | More details...
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Deogratias Harorimana (Southampton Solent University, UK)
This chapter offers a taste of the ingredients for further debates that continue to emerge from within knowledge management communities. The author has identified th... Sample PDF | More details...
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Blanca Hernandez Ortega (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Julio Jimenez Martinez (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Ma Jose Martin De Hoyos (University of Zaragoza, Spain)
The objective of this work is to analyse the importance of firms’ previous experience with different information technologies (Internet, electronic data interchange... Sample PDF | More details...
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B. Dawn Medlin (Appalachian State University, USA), Adriana Romaniello (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain)
Business processes refer to the activities that are performed within an organization that are used in order to produce value for the organization and its customers.... Sample PDF | More details...
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Qian Huang (University of Science and Technology of China, China), Robert M. Davison (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Hefu Liu (University of Science and Technology of China, China), Jibao Gu (University of Science and Technology of China, Chin)
Knowledge management (KM) is a dominant theme in the behavior of contemporary organizations. While KM has been extensively studied in developed economies, it is much... Sample PDF | More details...
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Maosheng Lai (Peking University, China), Xin Fu (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA), Liyang Zhang (Baidu.Com Co., Ltd., China), Lin Wang (Peking University, China)
In its several thousand years of social progress, China has put continuous effort into cultural development, which to a certain extent contributed to the exploitatio... Sample PDF | More details...
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One-Ki ("Daniel") Lee (University of Massachusetts Boston, USA), Mo ("Winnie") Wang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Kai H. Lim (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Zeyu ("Jerry") Peng (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
With the recognition of the importance of organizational knowledge management (KM), researchers have paid increasing attention to knowledge management systems (KMS).... Sample PDF | More details...
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Joseph E. Kasten (Dowling College, USA)
Knowledge strategy is defined as the set of guidelines and philosophies that guide an organization’s knowledge-based activities, such as knowledge gathering, develop... Sample PDF | More details...
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Marianne Gloet (Abu Dhabi Women’s College, UAE)
This paper explores various linkages between knowledge management (KM) and human capital management (HCM) in the context of developing leadership and management capa... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mohamed Khalifa (Abu Dhabi University, United Arab Emirates), Vanessa Liu (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Matthew K.O. Lee (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
In this article, we propose and empirically test major KM effectiveness determinants from the perspective of experts’ perceptions. Specifically, we examine the compl... Sample PDF | More details...
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Varadharajan Sridhar (Management Development Institute, India), Dhruv Nath (Management Development Institute, India), Amit Malik (Management Development Institute, India)
The process of information systems planning is critically dependent on the users of the system. The involvement and participation of these users and its impact on th... Sample PDF | More details...
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Xiaojia Guo (National University of Singapore, Singapore), John Lim (National University of Singapore, Singapore), Fei Wang (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
This article is an attempt to investigate the role of negotiation support systems (NSSs) in supporting inter-team negotiations, which have become commonplace for tod... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rainer Bye (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany), Ahmet Camtepe (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany), Sahin Albayrak (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
Collaborative methods are promising tools for solving complex security tasks. In this context, the authors present the security overlay framework CIMD (Collaborative... Sample PDF | More details...
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Michael B. Knight (University of Wisconsin, USA, Appalachian State University, USA), D. Scott Hunsinger (Southern Illinois University, USA)
Research over the past few decades has identified that organizations have been faced with social/ economic pressure to utilize information technology and to facilita... Sample PDF | More details...
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Charles J. Kacmar (University of Alabama, USA), Susan S. Fiorito (Florida State University, USA), Jane M. Carey (Arizona State University, USA)
The nomological network of the technology acceptance model is expanded through the addition of affective and task-preparation variables as antecedents to traditional... Sample PDF | More details...
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Salah Eldin Adam Hamza (SOFCON Consulting Engineering Co., Saudi Arabia)
This article studies the way tacit knowledge is dealt with in a high turnover business environment through a qualitative research approach in an engineering organiza... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ying Chieh Liu (Choayang University of Technology, Taiwan), Janice M. Burn (Edith Cowan University, Western Australia)
Virtual teams are groups of members collaborating in the execution of a specific task from disperse locations. Increasing use of virtual teams has highlighted the ne... Sample PDF | More details...
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Suling Zhang (Kean University, USA), Marilyn Tremaine (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Rich Egan (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Allen Milewski (Monmouth University, USA), Patrick O'Sullivan (IBM Dublin Lab, Ireland), Jerry Fjermestad (New Jersey Institute of Technologyl USA)
Virtual teams are an important work structure in software development projects. However, little is known about what constitutes effective virtual software team leade... Sample PDF | More details...
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Fernando Garrigos (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
This chapter presents the interrelationships between professional virtual communities and social networks, and analyzes how, and in what ways, these communities play... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mark E. Nissen (Naval Postgraduate School, USA)
In today’s increasingly networked world of organizational practice, information and computer technologies are enabling people and organizations to collaborate ever m... Sample PDF | More details...
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Shawn D. Long (University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA), Gaelle Picherit-Duthler (Zayed University, UAE), Kirk W. Duthler (Petroleum Institute, UAE)
The traditional organizational workplace is dramatically changing. An increasing number of organizations are employing workers who are physically and geographically... Sample PDF | More details...
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Huei-Chen Hsu (Transworld Institute of Technology, Taiwan)
The main points of this chapter are probing for the combination of information technology and virtual work, and how to change the distribution of different types of... Sample PDF | More details...
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Xiaohui Zhao (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia ), Chengfei Liu (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
This chapter introduces a service oriented relative workflow model as a means of helping organisations promptly create flexible and privacy-safe virtual organisation... Sample PDF | More details...
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Andrea Ko (Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary)
Many organizations are struggling with a vast amount of data in order to gain valuable insights and get support in their decision-making process. Decision-making qua... Sample PDF | More details...
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Zixiu Guo (University of New South Wales, Australia), John D’Ambra (University of New South Wales, Australia)
This article presents the results of an exploratory study examining the influence of national and organizational cultures on technology use in a multinational organi... Sample PDF | More details...
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Murako Saito (Waseda University, Japan)
Most hospital organizational environments in Japan are required to redesign the current organization into a new type of organization, namely a knowledge-based or an... Sample PDF | More details...
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Theekshana Suraweera (University of Canterbury, New Zealand)
Computer-based information systems have grown in importance to SMEs, and are now being used increasingly to help them compete. For example, many SMEs have turned to... Sample PDF | More details...
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Peter C. Chan (Hewlett Packard, USA), Shauntell R. Durant (Hewlett Packard, USA), Verna Mae Gall (University of Maryland - University College, USA), Mahesh S. Raisinghani (TWU School of Management, USA)
Organizations are implementing IT Service Management (ITSM) and creating quality standards to design, deliver, and manage IT services to meet or exceed an agreed lev... Sample PDF | More details...
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Valentina Janev (The Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Serbia), Sanja Vraneš (The Mihailo Pupin Institute, Serbia)
This article presents the process of design and implementation of a holistic knowledge management infrastructure for R&D organizations from human resources (HR) pers... Sample PDF | More details...
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Sandra K. Newton (Sonoma State University, USA), J. Ellis Blanton (University of South Florida, USA), Richard Will (University of South Florida, USA)
Little is known about the effects of the level of fulfillment of the IT professional’s psychological contract on their innovative work and organizational citizenship... Sample PDF | More details...
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Myung Ko (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA), Jan G. Clark (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA), Daijin Ko (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
This article revisits the relationship between IT and productivity, and investigates the impact on information technology (IT) investments. Using the MARS techniques... Sample PDF | More details...
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Vijay V. Raghavan (Northern Kentucky University, USA), Toru Sakaguchi (Northern Kentucky University, USA), Robert C. Mahaney (Eastern Kentucky University, USA)
This study explores whether organizations can employ job design strategies to relieve organizational stress for information technology (IT) professionals. The effect... Sample PDF | More details...
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Mario Spremic (University of Zagreb, Croatia)
Most organizations in all sectors of industry, commerce, and government are fundamentally dependent on their information systems (IS) and would quickly cease to func... Sample PDF | More details...
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Deborah Petska (Northrop Grumman Information Technology, USA), Zane Berge (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
As organizations race to increase their global market share, traditional face-to-face teams are evolving into virtual teams. Aided by swift advances in communication... Sample PDF | More details...
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Carl Henning Reschke (Institute for Management Research Cologne, Germany), Sascha Kraus (Vienna University of Economics & Business Administration, Austria)
This chapter sketches a strategic map of a selection of the relevant issues at the intersection of economics, psychology, sociology, and evolutionary theories applie... Sample PDF | More details...
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Phillip Dobson (Edith Cowan University, Australia), John Myles (Edith Cowan University, Australia), Paul Jackson (Edith Cowan University, Australia)
This article seeks to address the dearth of practical examples of research in the area by proposing that critical realism be adopted as the underlying research philo... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ashley Braganza (Cranfield University, UK), Ray Hackney (Brunel University, UK)
Information systems are vital to successful compliance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act. However, there is little published academic literature which repor... Sample PDF | More details...
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Kurt A. Richardson (ISCE Research, USA)
This article is an attempt to explore the implications of the emerging science of complexity for the management of organizations. It is not intended as an introducti... Sample PDF | More details...
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Hollis T. Landrum (University of North Texas, USA), Victor R. Prybutok (University of North Texas, USA), David Strutton (University of North Texas, USA), Xiaoni Zhang (Northern Kentucky University, USA)
Managers are increasingly facing the question of how to convey electronic information to e-commerce users in a manner that enables those individuals to resolve infor... Sample PDF | More details...
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Renate Motschnig-Pitrik (University of Vienna, Austria), Michael Derntl (University of Vienna, Austria)
In the preceding years we employed active technology enhanced learning in a course on project management soft skills that was particularly well received by students.... Sample PDF | More details...
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Bart H.M. Gerritsen (TNO Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, The Netherlands)
This chapter discusses the support of quality management by Enterprise Information Systems. After a brief introduction in ISO9001, one of the principle and widest-sp... Sample PDF | More details...
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Rogerio Atem de Carvalho (Federal Center for Technological Education of Campos, Brazil)
This chapter introduces the key aspects of Free/Open Source Enterprise Resources Planning systems (FOS-ERP). Starting by related work carried out by researchers and... Sample PDF | More details...
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Juha Kettunen (Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland)
Enterprises are facing challenges in protecting their intellectual property (IP) due to the rapid technological changes, shortened lifecycles, and the intangibility... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ioannis Kostopoulos (University of Patras, Greece)
This chapter highlights the need for using copyright protection tools in our digital transactions. The main tools of copyright protection, such as cryptography, data... Sample PDF | More details...
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Veda C. Storey (Georgia State University, USA), Gerald C. Kane (Boston College, USA), Kathy Stewart Schwaig (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Privacy concerns and practices, especially those dealing with the acquisition and use of consumer personal information by corporations, are at the forefront of busin... Sample PDF | More details...
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William J. Tastle (University of Iceland, Iceland), Mark J. Wierman (Creighton University, USA)
Statistical analysis is the universally accepted method by which sense is created from raw data. Successful requirements determination is often dependent upon the ga... Sample PDF | More details...
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Cesar Camison (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
Organisations are finding it more difficult to keep abreast with the pace of change. The continuous rise of business opportunities and the increase in global competi... Sample PDF | More details...
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Montserrat Boronat Navarro (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
In this study we adopt an inter-organizational view to examine virtual organizations. Thus, we understand this phenomenon as a strategic agreement between organizati... Sample PDF | More details...
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Amar Gupta (University of Arizona, USA), Raj K. Goyal (Harvard Medical School and VA Boston Health Care System, USA), Keith A. Joiner (University of Arizona, USA), Sanjay Saini (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)
The healthcare industry is being impacted by advances in information technology in four major ways: first, a broad spectrum of tasks that were previously done manual... Sample PDF | More details...
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Myung Ko (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA), Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson (Virginia Coomonwealthe University, USA), Carlos Dorantes (The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA)
This article examines the impact of information security breaches on organizational performance. Until now, there have been only a few empirical academic studies tha... Sample PDF | More details...
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Ken Webb (Webb Knowledge Services, Australia)
This chapter results from a qualitative research study finding that a heightened risk for management has emerged from a new security environment that is increasingly... Sample PDF | More details...
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Glenn Fink (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA), David McKinnon (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA), Samuel Clements (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA), Deborah Frincke (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
Security often requires collaboration, but when multiple stakeholders are involved, it is typical for their priorities to differ or even conflict with one another. I... Sample PDF | More details...
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G. Scott Erickson (Ithaca College, USA), Helen N. Rothberg (Marist College, USA)
Development of knowledge assets and protection of knowledge assets are both complementary and competing concerns for the contemporary business. Each has specific iss... Sample PDF | More details...
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Robin S. Poston (University of Memphis, USA), Cheri Speier (Michigan State University, USA)
To solve complicated problems, people often seek input from others. Knowledge management systems (KMSs) provide help in this activity by offering a computer-mediated... Sample PDF | More details...
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James A. Sena (California Polytechnic State University, USA)
This chapter focuses on organization security issues in knowledge management. Security has always been a major corporate consideration. It must be ingrained in the f... Sample PDF | More details...
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Tapasya Patki (University of Arizona, Tucson, USA), A.B. Patki (Department of Information Technology, India), Mahesh Kulkarni (Center for Development of Advanced Computing, India)
Outsourcing has been conventionally viewed as a solution to generate quick profits and provide business continuity. The previous decades have seen the emergence of t... Sample PDF | More details...
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Brane Semolic (University of Maribor, Slovenia), Jure Kovac (Organizational Sciences University of Maribor, Slovenia)
Technological and organizational excellence is the key element for business success in a modern business environment. In contemporary business environments, companie... Sample PDF | More details...
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Justin Meza (HP Labs, USA), Qin Zhu (HP Labs, USA)
Knowledge is the fact or knowing something from experience or via association. Knowledge organization is the systematic management and organization of knowledge (Hod... Sample PDF | More details...
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Adam Slagell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Kiran Lakkaraju (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
It is desirable for many reasons to share information, particularly computer and network logs. Researchers need it for experiments, incident responders need it for c... Sample PDF | More details...
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Donald C. Mikulecky (Virginia Commonwealth University Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, USA)
An organization is defined by the performance of function which is different from the way the organization is put together by its designers. An example is a business... Sample PDF | More details...
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Guillermo Agustín Ibáñez Fernández (Universidad Carlos III, Spain)
A computer network consists of computers that communicate via any physical media through a network formed by links and nodes, the nodes being the computers. Computer... Sample PDF | More details...
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Indranil Bose (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Chun Wai Lam (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Radio frequency identification (RFID) has generated vast amounts of interest in the supply chain, logistics, and the manufacturing area. RFID can be used to signific... Sample PDF | More details...
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Lynn Crawford (University of Technology-Sydney, Australia), Julien Pollack (University of Technology-Sydney, Australia)
Professional standards are a significant issue for professions such as IT and Project Management, where certification and licensure are either necessary to practice... Sample PDF | More details...
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Jens Eschenbächer (BIBA GmbH, Germany), Heiko Duin (BIBA GmbH, Germany)
Planning and management of Virtual Organisations (VOs) depends on accurate prognosis and forecasting of several organisational aspects. New and innovative business m... Sample PDF | More details...
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Malgorzata Pankowska (University of Economics, Poland), Henryk Sroka (University of Economics, Poland)
The rapid development of information communication technology (ICT) encourages companies to compete. However, those competitive development goals should enable peopl... Sample PDF | More details...
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Luiz Fernando de Barros Campos (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil)
This chapter investigates whether information technology tools typical of Web 2.0 can support Knowledge Management (KM) practices in organizations. An investigation... Sample PDF | More details...
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Topics Covered

  • Application of IT to Operation
  • Business Process Management and Modeling
  • Emerging Technologies Management
  • Human & societal issues in IT management
  • Information technology security and ethics
  • IS/IT education
  • IT governance issues
  • IT Innovation and Diffusion
  • IT Management in Public Organizations
  • IT outsourcing
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Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) is a research-based professional organization dedicated to advancing the concepts and practices of information resources management in modern organizations. IRMA's primary purpose is to promote the understanding, development and practice of managing information resources as key enterprise assets among IRM/IT professionals. IRMA brings together researchers, practitioners, academicians, and policy makers in information technology management from over 50 countries.
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