As the most uncertain and complex project when compared to other types of projects, software development project is highly depend on the result of software project planning phase that helping project managers by predicting the project demands with respect to the budgeting, scheduling, and the...

The recent discourse on modernizing organizations and leadership has often placed a strong emphasis on values and ethics. This article elaborates on the benefits and challenges in the integration of values into leadership and organizational actions, most notably in regards to appraisals of...

This paper presents and demonstrates a qualitative and quantitative methodological approach to the evaluation of public Research and Development (R&D) funding. This approach aims to support rather than replace traditional evaluation approaches, by focusing on the input, output and behavioural...

Business organizations have recently experimented an increasing risk exposure due to several exogenous factors (e.g. the legal and regulatory framework, the technological innovation and the volatility of financial markets and commodities), actually exacerbated by the current economic crisis...

The aim of this work is to determine and analyse consumer preferences regarding the profiles of an e-retailer's web page. Two types of products are examined, a pleasure trip and a laptop computer, to test whether there are differences in the individuals' preferences. There are two reasons for...

The importance of Electronic Banking as an alternative channel for marketing products and services, along with the associated cost savings, has brought about significant changes in the financial sector in recent years. Electronic Banking has become a differentiator among financial institutions,...

Despite widespread acceptance of the idea that strategic flexibility is critical to the success of firm's operations management, strategic flexibility in supply chain management remains largely unexplored by researchers. To fill this research gap, this study attempt to propose the theoretical...

Competitive firms are now focusing on innovation. Innovation is crucial for the process of identifying new opportunities and keeping the firm to be a few steps ahead of their competitors. Innovation of knowledge intensive firms is dependent to the knowledge workers and their innovative work...

This paper proposes an approach to utilise information from operational data to support the organization goal. The challenge in this issue is how to convert this vast of data into useful information. This is critical for all enterprises to remain competitive. In this paper, we emphasizes the...

In this study, it was aimed to examine the impact of institutionalization in family-owned hospitality businesses and elements of intellectual capital on competitive power. Data was gathered with survey technique and analyzed through statistical databases for social sciences. According to the...