Retail sales usually exhibit strong trend and seasonal patterns. Practitioners have typically used seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models to predict retail sales exhibiting these patterns. Due to economic instability, recent retail sales time-series data show a higher...

"This book makes an effort to explore the interaction of information technology and strategic management and aims to encourage joint research efforts among IT and strategy scholars for common solutions"--Provided by publisher.

Much attention has been given to adoption and diffusion, defined as the degree of market penetration, of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) in recent years ( Carter, Jambulingam, Gupta, & Melone, 2001 ; Kiiski & Pohjola, 2002 ; Milner, 2003 ; Benhabib & Spiegel, 2005 ). The theory...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop an adoption model to identify the critical factors that affect firms' intention to adopt mobile enabled supply chain systems (mSCM) in retail industry. This study focuses on inter‐organizational dimension since mSCM is an...