This report documents the findings of the study on the potential of ICT in supporting the provision of domiciliary care in Spain, with particular attention to the case of immigrant care workers and informal caregivers. This country study was launched by JRC-IPTS in 2008 in parallel with two...

This paper studies the use of labor markets to mitigate the impact of violent shocks on households in rural areas in Colombia. It examines changes in the labor supply from on-farm to off-farm labor as a means of coping with the violent shock and the ensuing redistribution of time within...

Governments, businesses and society in general are under considerable pressure to adapt their management structures, business models and forms of creating wealth and prosperity. Innovation, improvement and adaptation are essential in guaranteeing sustainability. Private sector firms have been...

This study has developed a model of ES capabilities to analyze the extent and quality of the use of ES in organizational contexts. The model consists of six general ES capabilities that can be used and deployed by organizations: 1) transaction automation, 2) decision-making process support, 3)...

We show that the announcement of SCM applications have a positive impact on the market value of firms using event study methodology. When SCM applications are disaggregated according to whether they are stand-alone SCM applications, or part of an enterprise system (SCM-ES) implementation, we...

(WP 12/04 Clave pdf) Enterprise systems (ES) can be considered as a novel phenomenon for the information system research and other academic fields (e.g. operations and supply chain), which has opened an immense potential and opportunities for research. Although the interest of the scholars on ES...

In ES implementations, process modelling is a critical and often overlooked activity. This paper proposes a framework for process modelling of ES. The four steps method involves: Current Situation Analysis, Business Process Improvements and Requirements, Gap Analysis, and To-be process to...

This study aims to gain a better understanding of key business processes. The processes of the firm are analyzed, proposing a classification of eight generic intra-organizational processes, and eleven generic inter-organizational processes, as well as criteria for the determination of the...

Este artículo presenta las experiencias de implementación de sistemas integrados de gestión ERP de 91 empresas en España y América Latina. Se presenta el perfil de las empresas, las variables de entorno, las estrategias de implementación y la percepción del impacto de la implementación...