Keynote paper: knowledge management: a systems perspective
DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2007.014764 | William R. King | Using a systems perspective, this paper synthesises many of the most important concepts in Knowledge Management (KM) and provides a fresh viewpoint on many of them. It represents a coherent and unified systems view of KM that uses the accep... | 5 - 28 |
Drop shipment-type wooden housing projects utilising locally-produced lumbers: determination of project leaders
DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2007.014764 | Shuichi Ishida, Shuzo Furusaka | In recent years, wooden houses which utilise domestic lumbers have been built in many parts of Japan through drop shipment-type projects. However, it is questionable whether this type of project greatly contributes to the revitalisation of ... | 29 - 46 |
Information systems in the value shop business of police investigations
DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2007.014764 | Petter Gottschalk, Morten Emil Berg | This paper reports results from an empirical study of police investigations in Norway. Investigation performance was linked to the extent of Information Systems (IS) used to support investigative work. It was found that IS improve the perfo... | 47 - 60 |
Examining the impact of organisational and owner|s characteristics on the extent of e-commerce adoption in SMEs
DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2007.014764 | Ta-Tao Chuang, Kazuo Nakatani, Jason C.H. Chen, I-Lin Huang | As electronic commerce (EC) (e-commerce) booms, research on factors influencing the adoption of e-commerce has caught researchers| attention. The results of this research stream have facilitated our understanding of e-commerce adoption. How... | 61 - 80 |
Increasing effectiveness in e-commerce: recommendations applying intelligent agents
DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2007.014764 | Silvana Vanesa Aciar, Christian Serarols-Tarres, Marcelo Royo-Vela, Josep Lluis De la Rosa i Esteva | The efficient management of the information regarding customers, consumers or other users, in massive markets, is a necessary condition for the implementation of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) processes or relational marketing. A ne... | 81 - 97 |
Attributes of innovation and the implementation of managerial tools: an activity-based management technique
DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2007.014764 | Davood Askarany, Malcolm Smith, Hassan Yazdifar | Adopting Rogers| diffusion model and the modified diffusion model presented by Askarany, this paper examines the level of association between perceived attribution of innovations and the diffusion of one managerial tool: Activity-Based Mana... | 98 - 114 |
A simulation approach for managing manufacturing processes and inbound logistics: a case study
DOI: 10.1504/IJBSR.2007.014764 | Felix T.S. Chan, H.K. Chan | This paper presents a case study of using simulation in managing cellular manufacturing process in a Small- and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME). A specific simulation approach, which can facilitate the SME to forecast how to manufacture a new... | 115 - 134 |
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