Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 106 Issue 1

What is integration?

Thomas Gulledge

This paper aims to provide a clarification of the meaning of the term integration.

Antecedents and consequences of organizational innovation and organizational learning in entrepreneurship

Víctor J. García‐Morales, Francisco J. Llorens‐Montes, Antonio J. Verdú‐Jover

To analyze a series of strategic capabilities/factors that affects organizational innovation (OI) and organizational learning (OL) (personal mastery, transformational leadership…

Understanding management data systems for enterprise performance management

Ranjit Bose

Managing enterprise performance is an important, yet a difficult process due to its complexity. The process involves monitoring the strategic focus of an enterprise, whose…

On establishing the core competency identifying model: A value‐activity and process oriented approach

Bai‐Chuan Yang, Bing‐Eng Wu, Pei‐Gi Shu, Ming‐Hsien Yang

This research intends to establish a model integrating the related theories in strategy management and competency in the HRM field, and to develop a systematic tool that can help…

Data envelopment analysis for decision support

John Seydel

To provide decision makers (DMs) an option for addressing problems involving finite alternative sets and multiple criteria, where criterion weighting is difficult or impossible.

Quantitative performance evaluation of RFID applications in the supply chain of the printing industry

Jiang‐Liang Hou, Chih‐Hao Huang

Seeks to carry out an empirical study to reveal the business characteristics of the printing industry and to accomplish a quantitative analysis of costs and benefits for RFID…

Enhancing business networks using social network based virtual communities

Bih‐Ru Lea, Wen‐Bin Yu, Nisha Maguluru, Michael Nichols

To enhance an entrepreneur's business network through the integration of the social network concepts and design principles of virtual communities.

Intention to e‐collaborate: propagation of research propositions

Eddie W.L. Cheng, Peter E.D. Love, Craig Standing, Hosein Gharavi

This paper seeks to propose the examination of the importance of firms' intention to e‐collaborate in facilitating e‐collaboration for an informal alliance.