Outputs (440)

A knowledge review: implications for future research and practical application (2009)
Journal Article

Knowledge has evolved from being an abstract concept that resides within the human mind to a manageable resource that is capable of contributing to organisational competitive advantage. Research in the field is largely divergent, both in methodologic... Read More about A knowledge review: implications for future research and practical application.

Enterprise imaging: visualising the scope and complexity of large scale services (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Public sector managers and entrepreneurship in Islamic Republic of Iran (2009)
Journal Article

Purpose - In Iran the role of entrepreneurs in developing communities is considered to be a special issue by planners and policy-makers; thus the aim of this paper is to explore and examine some of the main structural, behavioural and environmental b... Read More about Public sector managers and entrepreneurship in Islamic Republic of Iran.

Evolution of an IS development effort: An ANT interpretation (2009)
Journal Article

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to stand back from the debate of success and failure and develop an interpretive account based on narratives of major actors to enable project managers with a rich understanding of a complex organisation. Design-m... Read More about Evolution of an IS development effort: An ANT interpretation.

Chinese cultural influences on knowledge management practice (2009)
Journal Article

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to explore national cultural influences on knowledge management (KM) practices within Chinese manufacturing enterprises. Design/methodology/approach - A qualitative case study in four steps was conducted within... Read More about Chinese cultural influences on knowledge management practice.

Towards the strategic outsourcing of core competencies in the automotive industry: Threat or opportunity? (2009)
Journal Article

Faced with shorter product life cycles and increased cost of capital, companies can no longer afford the capital outlay for new facilities, which may become underutilised as processes improve over the first few years of operation. Outsourcing the pro... Read More about Towards the strategic outsourcing of core competencies in the automotive industry: Threat or opportunity?.

Re-discovery of India (2009)
Book Chapter

Multicultural project teams and their management (2009)
Journal Article

Organisations are becoming more and more diverse due to the increasing globalisation of business operations. Multicultural project teams can potentially assist in better decision making and bring in greater creativity and innovation. Additionally, th... Read More about Multicultural project teams and their management.

Predicting SMEs' adoption of enterprise systems (2009)
Journal Article

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a model that can be used to predict which small to mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) are more likely to become adopters of enterprise systems (ERP, CRM, SCM and eprocurement). Design/methodology/approa... Read More about Predicting SMEs' adoption of enterprise systems.

Information Systems Innovations Adoption and Diffusion Among SMEs: Current Status and Future Prospects (2009)
Journal Article

The attention of software vendors has moved recently to Small to Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) offering them a vast range of Information Systems’ (IS) innovations including enterprise systems (ES), which were formerly adopted by large firms only. A... Read More about Information Systems Innovations Adoption and Diffusion Among SMEs: Current Status and Future Prospects.

Critical management and organizational history (2009)
Book Chapter

The implementation of a quality management system in the not-for-profit sector (2009)
Journal Article

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the rationale for establishing a quality management system (QMS) by obtaining ISO 9001:2000 certification in a not for profit small to medium enterprise (SME) in the UK. The rationale for choosing thi... Read More about The implementation of a quality management system in the not-for-profit sector.

Users' perceptions of the free, virtual-only service experience (2009)
Journal Article

Using two stages of large-scale empirical data collection and analysis, this article presents a first attempt to develop a scale (netQ) for measuring the quality of free, virtual-only service experience. In the first stage, based on responses to an o... Read More about Users' perceptions of the free, virtual-only service experience.

Sustainable procurement: Emerging issues (2009)
Journal Article

Sustainable procurement is the pursuit of sustainable development objectives (WCED, 1987) through the purchasing and supply process, and involves balancing environmental, social and economic objectives. It is rising on the policy agenda for many coun... Read More about Sustainable procurement: Emerging issues.

The importance of knowledge management for ERP systems (2008)
Journal Article

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software provides a coherent integrated electronic business management environment, frequently controlling all logistics and billing for an enterprise. Many companies are now reliant upon these systems for their dai... Read More about The importance of knowledge management for ERP systems.

OTRI: agenda de investigacion (2008)
Journal Article

The present paper presents different lines of work in order to extend the current empirical research about the role of the technology transfer offices (TTO). Those lines of research come from the new advances in the micro economic analysis of TTOs an... Read More about OTRI: agenda de investigacion.

Build to order: the road to the 5-day car (2008)
Book

Visit any modern car production line and you will be faced by a showcase of modern technology and advanced logistics combining in a clinical environment to produce rows of automobiles, each significantly different from the one before and after it. Fr... Read More about Build to order: the road to the 5-day car.

The reflexive consumer (2008)
Journal Article

Drawing on a detailed reading of the work of Peppers and Rogers (1993, 1997, 2004, 2005), this paper argues that their work offers an emblematic problematization of traditional mass marketing, which articulates a new mentality of marketing — collabor... Read More about The reflexive consumer.

The triple helix strategy for universities in developing countries: The experiences in Malaysia and Algeria (2008)
Journal Article

This article addresses issues relating to the policy shift in developing countries aimed at making universities increasingly relevant to the socio-economic milieu by promoting the 'triple helix culture' as a sustainable basis for innovation and techn... Read More about The triple helix strategy for universities in developing countries: The experiences in Malaysia and Algeria.

Toward a framework to assist servitization strategy implementation (2008)
Journal Article

Advice for manufacturing companies to increase their attention to opportunities downstream of production had grown loud by the mid 1990s. Accompanying this advice lay warnings of generic, implementation issues to be addressed in the journey downstrea... Read More about Toward a framework to assist servitization strategy implementation.