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The growth of information technology (IT) and trend of e-business transform the business and shifts the business focus from the production into integrated operations. As the impact, enterprises have to adjust themselves by implementing IT systems in their businesses, including develop an integrated application infrastructure…

Implementing the concepts of Lean and Six Sigma is very common for manufacturing companies. Lately, the service industry started to embrace those concepts. In this case, we study the experience of a software service provider, ITWorx, and how they implemented Lean and six sigma to…

Exporting is the most common and widely used mode to enter into business at an international level. Export performance is crucial to identify the performance level of the organizations. This measure determines whether the organization is performing well. However, export development is also critical since…

The purpose of this article consists in exploring the regulation strategies of post purchase regret in the consumer. A qualitative approach was used via in-depth interviews, and focus groups were conducted. The results obtained allowed us to show that the consumer is often motivated to regulate…

Construction industry is realizing the plans and specifications for the physical structure. The project is success when it is completed to meet customer needs without any issues and problems in terms of time, quality and budget allocation. The budget allocation is important especially to get…

Forecasting rates of return, thus the attempt to predict the behavior of financial assets, with an increased degree of accuracy, represents one of the most outstanding challenges for the academic and investment area. The main purpose of the paper is to analyze past fluctuations of…

Business to-Consumer (B2C) e-commerce becomes more composite with the emerging growth of web services. Online Buyer expectations are often not taken into consideration in global and local B2C websites. Serviceability has made its approach into the e-commerce mainstream and emphases on how the web developers…

This paper is the first attempt to measure ‘sustainable’ innovation in Greece. ‘Sustainable’ innovation is a critical dimension of sustainable development and a process where sustainability considerations, such as environmental, social, financial, are integrated into the generation of new ideas, leading to new R&D and…

Software development is considered as a knowledge-intensive set of activities. Therefore, several business concepts are usually used to support it. Product management is not an exception. However, qualitative and quantitative characteristics of its application are influenced by the size of an organization, since small and…

Thanks to the study of 124 firms listed on the SBF 250 index, the researchers were able to identify the determinants of information asymmetry between firms' managers and investors, using panel data over the period ranging from 1999 to 2008. The results of the random…