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16
May
2011

Framework for Mobile Money Implementation in Nigeria

Journal of African Research in Business & Technology
A sizeable number of people in developing nations, particularly Africa countries are rural dwellers who seldom have access to banking services despite their heavy reliance on remittances from economic migrants for social protection and poverty alleviation. There is therefore a dire need for the development…
12
May
2011

Profiling E-business Practices amongst Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Using a Fit Perspective

Journal of Internet and e-business Studies
E-business as a multifaceted application has vast capabilities to support today's business. Nevertheless, these capabilities do not equally benefit all firms. Therefore, appropriate selection of e-business solutions would substantially enhance firm efficiency and effectiveness. Despite extensive research in this domain, there are limited works that…
10
May
2011

Distinctive Feature Extraction for Fast and Reliable Classification in Complex Systems

Communications of the IBIMA
In this work, an approach for establishment of class membership in complex systems is reported.   The classification is based on adaptive recognition facilitating the discovery of pattern features that make them distinct from objects belonging to different classes. By viewing a pattern as a representation…
10
May
2011

Optimal Growth and Development of Companies through Knowledge Management Value Chain

Journal of Mobile Technologies, Knowledge and Society
The tools and techniques in Knowledge Management (KM) are powerful measures for enhancing the growth and development of the company if it is well directed. It may also if not handled appropriately reflect inefficiency in work sapping the energy of employees who may not see…
09
May
2011

Cloud Computing Development Strengthens Delegated Information Processing as the New Information-Communications Ecosystem

Journal of Cloud Computing
Information-communications systems, consisting of three core categories: information (content), communication mechanism (currently dominated by Internet), and services (data/information processing, content delivery, etc.) were changing over time from the distributed processing to the cloud computing. Current cloud computing development gives the basis for delegated information processing…
01
May
2011

The Relationship between Cultural Identity and Individual Knowledge Sharing Behavior

IBIMA Business Review
While study focusing on cultural identity has been vastly reported in the literature, not much is really known about the relationship between knowledge sharing behavior and cultural identity. Against this background, this study was undertaken to examine the relationship between knowledge sharing identity and the…
01
May
2011

Preservation of Geological Information Using a Repository System on Langkawi Geoparks

IBIMA Business Review
The development of a repository system is a valuable solution that can assure the preservation of geological information and would provide a more sustainable tool for future references. This research attempted to establish on how geological information could be modeled into various forms of digital…
30
Apr
2011

Electronic Business Maturity in Portuguese SME and Large Enterprises

Communications of the IBIMA
Since the introduction of computer technology into organizations in the 1960s, there have been numerous attempts to develop models of Information Systems/Information Technology (IS/IT) maturity. The maturity models are based on the premise that the planning process, development or adoption, use and management of IS/IT…
30
Apr
2011

Collaborative Business Applications: A New Methodological Approach

IBIMA Business Review
The introduction of the Enterprise 2.0 philosophy is to make the companies more flexible by improving the collaboration between the employees. The real application of this concept doesn’t concern about a simple adoption of a new technology but a more complex change that involves all…
14
Apr
2011

The Association between Training and Organizational Citizenship Behavior in the Digital World

Communications of the IBIMA
This research investigated the association between five training variables i.e. availability of training, support for training, motivation to learn, training environment and perceived benefits of training and organizational citizenship behaviour (OCB). OCB was made up of 5 components — altruism, conscientiousness, civic virtue, sportsmanship and…