Background: E-business and Information Technology (IT) are critical components in the improvement of logistics functions. As logistics contributes to the entire strategic planning of a firm, e-business and IT applications support the implementation of strategic planning in a more efficient and...

Modern management means making managerial decisions in many situations-including the administrative ordering of matters of a bankrupt enterprise. The situation in which the court approves the opening of bankruptcy proceedings is strictly regulated by law. This does not mean, however, that such a...

Background From the last decade, data mining techniques, employed in particular in customer relationship management, have assumed a key role in the profitability and operations of companies. To support small and medium companies (SMEs), several innovative and continuously improving tools have...

Purpose: Information Technology (IT) is developing at an accelerated rate, making it virtually impossible to separate business and IT strategies. Consequently, the IT strategy of an entity must be integrated with its overall business strategy in order for IT to add value to an entity. It is...

The importance of the Chief Information Officer (CIO) has been enhanced in recent decades with the growing reliance of firms on IT. CIOs influence their firm's strategy implementation and can facilitate improved firm performance by effectively managing IT resources. However, what makes an ideal...

In the Industry 4.0 era, emerging technologies such as big data analytics and blockchain can improve supply chain operations by updating information to reduce demand uncertainty and improving data quality. We conduct a theoretical exploration of the values provided by such technologies in the...

"With the widespread transformation of information into digital form throughout society - firms and organizations are embracing this development to adopt multiple types of IT to increase internal efficiency and to achieve external visibility and effectiveness - we have now reached a position...

"BRONZE RUNNER UP: Axiom Awards 2018 - Business Technology Category (1st edition)90% of today's data was generated in the last two years and the amount of data we have available is predicted to double every two years. Data is an integral strategic asset for all businesses. Learn how to leverage...

"This book presents the latest scholarly research on the widespread integration of technological innovations around the globe and examines how organizational agility, intelligence and resilience interprets, affects, and improves the entrepreneurship around the globe"--

Market Trends in Information Technology Outsourcing -- Theoretical Foundation -- Changing Business Models -- IT Strategy and IT Outsourcing -- IT Services: Demand and Supply -- Information Technology Innovation and Outsourcing -- Transitions and Contracts -- Governance of IT Outsourcing --...

The paper is devoted to the analysis of mediaplanning in the information management system. In our opinion, the basis of the development of a network society is not only the development of information technologies, but the growth and complication of social interactions, which take the form of...

The article can be considered part of a major article that highlights the importance of using ICT as a tool that contributes to the stability of the organization, especially in the stage of artificial intelligence, at the level of services and development of the effectiveness of the workforce,...

The strategic planning means the future planning of an organization; in other words, it refers to the direction that the organization wants to move in that direction. Strategic planning of the information technology for any organization is an evidence that the organization's information...

We introduce a general framework for analyzing large-scale text-based data, combining the strengths of neural-network language processing and generative statistical modeling. Our methodology generates textual factors by (i) representing texts using vector word embedding, (ii) clustering words...

The increased importance of national and IT security for the United States, specifically after the events of September 11, 2001, resulted in the Federal Information of Security Management Act (FISMA, Public Law 107347, Title III) being passed by the Congress in 2002. FISMA requires agency's CIO...

The credibility of sustainability reports has been the subject of scientific research for several years. The problem is often referred to as the so-called credibility gap, which is based on information asymmetries. The situation is further complicated by the limited rationality of human action...

One of the most challenging problems modern firms face is that their weakest link in maintaining information security is the behavior of employees: clicking on phishing emails, telling friends and family private information, and searching for private information about themselves (Loch et al. 1992;...

Big Data has become increasingly important to multiple facets of the accounting profession, but accountants have little understanding of the steps necessary to convert Big Data into useful information. This limited understanding creates a gap between what accountants can do and what accountants...

Nowadays, information systems have become a difficult part to separate in almost every business process in an institution or organization. Information becomes an important part of information systems that have to kept safe from harm because of threats leading to alteration, wrongful disclosure,...

For many years information security and risk management has been an art rather than a science. This has resulted in the reliance on experts whose methodologies and results can vary widely and which have led to the growth of fear, uncertainty and doubt within the community. At the same time, the...