Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 104 Issue 1

A comparative study of the state of recent IPO companies – lessons learned

Sameer Kumar, Jonathan Beattie

Examines five companies from different market segments with initial public offerings in the past five years, representing a wide range of products. The companies were Cabot…

Factors affecting the success of business‐to‐business international Internet marketing (B‐to‐B IIM): an empirical study of UK companies

Riyad Eid, Myfanwy Trueman

Business‐to‐business international Internet marketing is one of the key drivers in sustaining an organisation’s competitive advantage. The challenge for organisations today is to…

Use of Internet in supply chain management: a study of Indian companies

Zillur Rahman

The advent of the Internet and electronic communication has enabled companies to be more responsive to their customers. However, the uses of the same technological advancements in…

Impacts of ERP systems on the integrated‐interaction performance of manufacturing and marketing

Li‐Ling Hsu, Minder Chen

Interactions between manufacturing and marketing departments often determine the competitiveness and profitability of a firm. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems address…

An objective approach for identifying the strategic components of a PDM system

Rajeev Kumar, P.S. Midha

This paper proposes an expert system that incorporates QFD (quality function deployment) methodology for the identification of the strategic components of a company for a PDM…

Impact of standardization on EDI in B2B development

Chang‐tseh Hsieh, Binshan Lin

This paper investigates how the standardization on electronic data interchange (EDI) might affect B2B development in the real world of business. EDI technique has been evolved to…

A classification of mobile business models and its applications

Choon Seong Leem, Hyung Sik Suh, Dae Seong Kim

Although there have been a lot of studies on mobile business, it is hard to find ones in which an integrated perspective of mobile business based on both customers’ and companies’…

Implementation of EDI in Hong Kong: an empirical analysis

E.W.T. Ngai, A. Gunasekaran

Electronic data interchange (EDI) plays a major part in improving organizational competitiveness in the twenty‐first century global market. Telecommunication technologies have…