The primary objective of this paper is to advance the theoretical knowledge on the phenomenon of gazelles by integrating the findings of previous studies into a conceptual model that would account for a sustainable high growth. A theoretical explorative and deductive method is adopted. A number...

This paper examines the long run and causal relationship issues between economic growth, energy consumption and carbon emissions by using vector error correction model for the case of Tunisia within 1970-2010. Empirical results using time series data suggest an evidence of a long-run...

The present study aims to empirically test and evaluate the direct and indirect effects of service encounter constructs of service quality, customer satisfaction and service value on loyalty related behavioral intentions of customers in Indian Life services in India to determine the best fitting...

In this paper, a multi-objective, multi-product, multi-period production and transportation planning problem in the context of a multi-site supply chain is proposed. The developed model attempts simultaneously to maximize the profit and to maximize the product quality level. The objective of...

The aim of this paper is to measure the business performance by taking Cloud computing adoption as a mediating variable in Indian industries. A conceptual model is framed using the concept of a TAM-TOE framework which is combined with some new constructs of ‘Risk'. Partial and full mediation...

Cloud computing is increasingly used so that the number of providers offering services is rapidly increasing. Thus, a need to organize these services and to express relations between them arises. To answer this need, ontologies are used. To query these services, the authors use query languages,...

Big Data and Analytics have become key concepts within the corporate world, both commercially and from an information technology (IT) perspective. This paper presents the results of a global quantitative analysis of 400 IT leaders from different industries, which examined their attitudes toward...

Efficient use of cloud resources and providing QoS to its clients is quite challenging for cloud service providers. On one hand, deployment of excessive active resources leads to increase in operational cost and on the other hand, shortage of resources may affect the QoS and SLA violations. In...

This paper examines a Personal Information Trust Service as a conceptual model of a Personal Data Service to unlock personal data from collection to use without privacy invasion. Personal Data Service is a service to let an individual store, manage, and deploy their key personal data in a highly...

With the growth of internet technologies, e-commerce activities are growing exponentially. It is being used in different IT applications. Electronics contracting is a major part of the e-commerce activity. Contract between the exchanging sides have been adopted as a solution that guarantees the...