Over the last decade, system integration has grown in popularity as it allows organisations to streamline business processes. Traditionally, system integration has been conducted through point-to-point solutions – as a new integration scenario requirement arises, a custom solution is built...

An asset registry arguably forms the core system that needs to be in place before other systems can operate or interoperate. Most systems have rudimentary asset registry functionality that store assets, relationships, or characteristics, and this leads to different asset management systems...

[Abstract]: Agile methodologies such as Extreme Programming (XP) have emerged as a major thrust in the computer software development arena. Almost contemporaneously, an organisational theory highly aligned with the values of agile methodologies has mutated from the ‘restructuring’ paradigm....

Sales Forecast Accuracy (SFA) is a critical issue in supply chain management. More and more people have noticed that poor estimates of future demand will lead to low revenue performance caused from high stock out or excess inventory. To achieve an SFA as high as possible, many new methods have...

Social interactions in a community influence perceptions and values of members of the community. Recently Web 2.0 technologies have stimulated rapid growth of online communities, where communications between participants are made much easier. It is important to study how participants' behaviors...

This paper will present evidence to show that there is an absence of informed, broad, media discussion on e-commerce initiatives in Australia. As pointed out by several authors (Gittins, 1995), the newspaper medium is one of the main vehicles through which advisers and policymakers seek to...

The integrated value of the ecological function of tropical forests in the central mountainous areas of Hainan Island was 33.0648 billion yuan•a-1 in 2010 (soil improvement, soil consolidation, soil nutrient maintenance, water storage and moisture regulation, water purification, carbon...

Based on the survey data of entrepreneurship concerning farmers in China, this article uses the multivariate adjustment regression analysis method, to analyze the factors influencing farmers' identification of entrepreneurial opportunity and the mechanism. The results show that demographic...

The nature of farmer cooperative economy organization (known as FCEO) determines the fact that the economic effects of farmer cooperative economy organization are as important as its social effects. Many experts, however, now would only focus on its economic function, and either neglect or...

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This study explores the causal relationship among electricity consumption, economic growth and CO₂ emissions for a group of 14 sub-Sahara African (SSA) countries from 1980 to 2009 using panel cointegration and panel vector error correction modelling methods....</p>