MIG-welding plus cold-wire feed (CWF) based on 3D-printing-shaped metal deposition (SMD) is a technique of relatively new technologies for additive manufactured parts, which enables to create components in the form of near-net shaped parts using the metal inert gas method. The SMD technique is...

Interorganizational business process standards (IBPS) are IT-enabled process specifications that standardize, streamline, and improve business processes related to interorganizational relationships. There has been much interest in IBPS as organizations from different industries implement these...

Using monthly data on temporary trade barriers (TTBs), we estimate the dynamic employment effects of protectionism through vertical production linkages. First, exploiting procedural details of TTBs and high-frequency data, we identify movements in protectionism exogenous to economic...

This paper examines the opportunities and challenges related to data and process integration architectures in the context of Web Services. A primary goal of most enterprises in today's economic environment is to improve productivity by streamlining and aggregating business processes. This paper...

The main aspects of business process optimization based on logistics concepts and technologies are considered in the article. The analysis showed a high level of interest in this area of research. It is shown that the business processes of the enterprise can be represented as a continuous chain...

Information technology (IT) innovation imparts strategic and competitive benefits to an organization. In spite of the focus on technological, organizational and environmental factors, many researchers have acknowledged that whether, when and how to innovate with IT is a complex and crucial...

There is no commonly accepted definition of "off shoring" in the public debate nor in the economic literature. However, the term "off shoring" is widely used as a particular subcategory of "outsourcing"

BPO vendors take care of non-core - but essential - business needs and support functions. BPO is defined as delegating a business process or function to skilled and experienced professionals. India involves the competitive advantages of one location over others in terms of location, people...

There has been a great deal of discussion and deliberation's on outsourcing of services from the developed countries to the developing countries. India has been the focus of such debates and discussions for quite a long time. India tops the list of twenty-five countries in the A. T. Kearney's...

Process modeling facilitates understanding and restructuring of activities used to achieve business goals. However, manual process modeling is time-consuming and error-prone. In this paper, we describe a recommender system that suggests a list of correct and fitting process fragments for an...