Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 108 Issue 9

Comparing the quality management practices in UK SMEs

Maneesh Kumar, Jiju Antony

The last two decades have witnessed an explosion of research into the area of quality initiatives (QI) such as ISO, total quality management, lean, Kaizen and its application…

Developing a socio‐technical framework for business‐IT alignment

Sang M. Lee, Kihyun Kim, Patrick Paulson, Hyesung Park

The purpose of this study is to develop a framework for evaluating business‐IT alignment. Specifically, the authors emphasize internal business‐IT alignment between business and…

Critical entrepreneur knowledge dimensions for the SME performance

Doris Gomezelj Omerzel, Boštjan Antončič

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the entrepreneurship knowledge construct with its dimensions and its significance for the firm performance via a model. This research…

Information technology maturity stages and enterprise benchmarking: an empirical study

Choon Seong Leem, Byeong Wan Kim, Eun Jung Yu, Min Ho Paek

Recently, many enterprises are using a variety of methods and techniques to examine and improve their current maturity level of information technology (IT). Although IT evaluation…

Managerial cost mitigation tactics in offshore IT projects

Lutfus Sayeed

The purpose of this paper is to enhance our understanding of managerial decision‐making process regarding offshore sourcing of information technology (IT) projects. The study…

What affects organizational performance?: The linking of learning and knowledge management

Li‐An Ho

The purpose of this paper is to propose a conceptual structural equation model to investigate the relationships among self‐directed learning (SDL), organizational learning (OL)…

Stock selection using data envelopment analysis

Hsin‐Hung Chen

The purpose of this study is to adopt data envelopment analysis (DEA) to construct portfolios, and compare their return rates with the market index to examine whether DEA…

Mobile TV phone: current usage, issues, and strategic implications

J.P. Shim, Sungmin Park, Julie M. Shim

The purpose of this paper is to examine the status of current mobile TV phone usage and discuss the issues for strategic implications for the communications and mobile TV industry.

Note from the publisher

Vicky Williams