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Cost efficiency has been a dominant perspective in the traditional IT literature. However, in complex technology and business environment, the widely recognized cost efficient assumption of information technology has been increasingly challenged. Drawing from a case study of wireless network implementation situated in a politically…

In this paper, we focus on digital content markets (DCMs), which have typically been seen as an offspring of technological and business innovations. However, recent trends indicate that these two perspectives are not enough when attempting to understand how DCMs actually work. Technology is obviously…

he advent of the WWW has caused a dramatic evolution in getting the information. From the web, most of the people nowadays can get information easily from Internet from anywhere and anytime. These Web sites also become an important tool that the government used to…

Over the years, government-to-business (G2B) as an inter-organizational system has emerged as an essential part of e-government systems. Its development and usage have not only been expected to contribute to efficient and effective operations, but G2B is also anticipated for better transparency, reduced costs and…

With the transformation of managerial views and the increasing focus on knowledge and intellectual capitals as the most important resources to the organizations, the necessity for retaining these resources and monitoring their effectiveness in order to know how they are utilized becomes significant. As for…

The paper aims to analyse the correlation between the adoption of technology production strategies and firm competitiveness, considering them under the view of contingent firm theory. In order to test the research hypotheses, the case of the tile ceramic cluster in Spain has been considered.…

The role of corporate portal on consolidating an organization's internal and external information and knowledge repositories has been recognized by many organizations worldwide including academic institutions. The deployment of corporate portals has been growing in academia. This qualitative study examined the strengths and weaknesses of…

While many studies on outsourcing have identified its advantages and disadvantages from an organizational perspective, there has been insufficient attention paid to the impact of outsourcing on employees. A case study methodology was used in the analysis of the effects of IT outsourcing on the…

Query disambiguation is considered as one of the most important methods in improving the effectiveness of information retrieval. By combining query expansion with dictionary-based translation and statistics-based disambiguation, in order to overcome query terms ambiguity, information retrieval should become much more efficient. In the present…

The potential of mobile devices has been steadily increasing with time. Accordingly, Smartphones are nowadays an almost ubiquitous platform, with great hardware and software capabilities regarding location-based applications, from which only navigation-aid systems are being thoroughly explored. However, despite such growth, e-commerce platforms are not…