The aim of this paper is to analyze and systematic theoretical findings which are based on Porter´s Generic Chain of Values in regards to the area of supporting activities. Supporting activities were long time at the margin of interest, both social and economic. Today, they represent important...

En este artículo se presenta QualDev-Software Process Improvement (SPI), una metodología para ayudar a la gerencia de empresas o departamentos de software pequeños y emergentes a implantar el Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI). El objetivo de esta metodología es aumentar la...

Governments are increasingly focusing on achieving growth at regional, national and international levels. Research and practice indicates that innovation is a key driver for achieving this goal. Unfortunately, finding efficient ways to promote and manage innovation is not a straightforward task....

This proposal builds on the interaction between a dynamic construct that I call entrepreneur maturation (EM) and the shock construct from Lee et al (1996)'s Unfolding Model of Turnover. This proposal describes an exploratory study in which I seek to understand how an IS nascent entrepreneur (NE)...

It is very important to recognize that the future of e-government cannot be thought through in isolation, it cannot be assessed as a series of administrative tasks or a wider set of measures aimed at making the state more efficient. The administration of today and tomorrow essentially depends on...

Data are one of the key elements in corporate decision-making, without them, the decision-making process cannot be imagined. As a consequence, different analytical tools are needed that allow the efficient use of data, information and knowledge. These analytical tools are commonly called...

We present a new recommender system developed for the Russian interactive radio network FMhost. The system aims to improve the quality of this service; it is designed specifically to deal with small datasets, overcoming the shortage of data on observed user behavior. The underlying model combines...