De uitgaven aan supermarkt promoties nemen toe terwijl de effecten ervan nog steeds niet volledig duidelijk zijn, zowel in de praktijk alsook in de wetenschap. Dit artikel draagt bij aan de kennis omtrent de effecten van promoties op het aankoopgedrag van huishoudens. Deze effecten worden op...

Although IT investment evaluation has been one of the core subjects of IT research since the early days of the use of computers in business and a plethora of evaluation methodologies and taxonomies have been developed, there is little doubt that IT investment evaluation still is problematic and...

In order to realize successful Business-to-Business integration (B2Bi) the parties involved should agree on a number of business and ICT-related issues. These agreements may be based on bilateral discussions or on proprietary or open standards. The appropriateness of using standards depends on...

Much has already been written about Web Services. But just implementing this within some parts of your IT environment does not offer a real competitive advantage. Implementing services as part of a Service-Oriented Architecture however will lead to a more flexible IT system, which assists in the...

Web services are a recent, Internet based technology to integrate applications and business processes within a single company and across multiple companies. This paper first sketches the basic principles that underlie web services and then proposes an event based integration approach, where...

This paper discusses a new approach to incorporate probabilistic behavior in object-oriented Business Models. Probabilistic Finite State Machines are presented and analyzed in terms of their Dynamic and Static properties. In this way, conceptual behavior models are translated in a precise...

Dit artikel bestudeert armoede onder zelfstandige ondernemers in België via een kwantitatieve en kwalitatieve aanpak. Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat armoede onder hen iets aparts is. Ongeveer een derde van de zelfstandigen bevindt zich onder de armoedegrens van de volledige Belgische bevolking....