In open office settings, auditory distractions coming from surrounding work environment are shown to be a considerable source of indirect costs to an organization, such as performance costs, behavioral costs, and healthcare costs, to name a few. These costs are substantial to affect the net...

Purpose ? The paper aims to explore the key competitiveness indicators (KCIs) that provide the guidelines for helping new real estate developers (REDs) achieve competitiveness during their inception stage in which the organisations start their business. Design/methodology/approach ? The...

The question of how information and communications technologies impact the economic development of businesses has come to the fore in recent years with the emergence of what have been called "platforms for collaborative working" or simply "collaborative platforms". This technological development...

El incremento de la oferta de fruta dulce en los mercados ha originado por parte de la demanda una mayor exigencia en la calidad de la misma, por lo que el presente trabajo realiza una prospeccion sobre el fenomeno de la perdida de precio que experimentan las producciones que han sido objetp de...

Models on innovation, for the most part, do not include a comprehensive and end-to-end view. Most innovation policy attention seems to be focused on the capacity to innovate and on input factors such as R&D investment, scientific institutions, human resources and capital. Such inputs frequently...