The cement industry is a capital intensive, energy consuming, and vital industry for sustaining infrastructure of nations. The international cement market – while constituting a small share of world industry output—has been growing at an increasing rate relative to local production in recent...

The impact of information technology (IT) on globalization of the world market is assumed to have a dual economic effect. From the micro-economic standpoint, an integrative business model has been proposed using qualitative and quantitative frameworks, and several constraints have been found...