Purpose – To present a three‐layer hierarchical structure of the factors involved in adopting an electronic marketplace (EM) model and to examine the relative weightings given to various strategic factors by the securities industry (SI) and the heavy electric machinery industry in Taiwan....

Purpose – Unless the key measures are identified and managed, the entire concept of measurement would end up making one step forward and two steps sideways. The key is to identify those measures that add value to the measurement approach per se. The present work is yet another contribution to...

Purpose – Researchers are keenly searching methods of analyzing, developing and implementing multi‐focused strategies. This is a challenging task because they are quite difficult to structure and, therefore, to assimilate. This study aims to present a new method that can be used further to...