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20
Oct
2011

Understanding Strategic Reactiveness Influences on Entrepreneurial Management Tendencies

Journal of Organizational Management Studies
This study explores the relationship between strategic reactiveness (SR) and Entrepreneurial Management (EM) tendencies of SMEs sector within the states of Melaka and Johor in Malaysia. This research considers that strategy-related variables are competitively aggressive and adaptive. Strategic planning allows organizations to anticipate changes and…
19
Oct
2011

Evaluating Adoption of Innovations of Mobile Devices and Desktops within Collaborative Environments in a Higher Education Context

Communications of the IBIMA
This study aims to evaluate if students that use laptops or desktops learn when using Google Groups, involving one hundred and twelve students in a higher education context. The research main goal is to validate which of the students, involved in this study, are in…
19
Oct
2011

Consumer Acceptance of an Electronic Dinar Payment System in Malaysia

Journal of Electronic Banking Systems
This study attempts to solve several problems associated with physical gold dinar when used as a form of payment. One dinar is equal to 4.25 gram of fine gold. Specifically, this work proposes the use of e-commerce technology -- known as electronic dinar payment system…
18
Oct
2011

An Evaluation Framework for Saudi E-Government

Journal of e-Government Studies and Best Practices
E-government supports the integration of technology into the social structure to transform administrative procedures to achieve a more effective form of government. Technological advances and the miniaturization of Information and Communication Technologies provide tools to enhance the diffusion of information and services to form part…
17
Oct
2011

Public Sector ERP Implementation: Successfully Engaging Middle-Management !

Communications of the IBIMA
ERP implementation problems often occur due to cultural problems that lie deep within the organizational structure. Highly departmentalized (referred to as “stove-piped”) organizations are averse to the open flow of information and to process oriented management solutions. Nowhere are these problems more evident than in…
16
Oct
2011

Water Poverty Mapping and its Role in Assisting Water Management

Communications of the IBIMA
Water scarcity occurs when the ways in which we use and distribute water cannot fully meet the demand from the environment, industry, farms and households. On a worldwide scale, the World Bank estimates that roughly 166 million people in 18 countries are affected by water…
14
Oct
2011

Telework Considerations for Public Managers with Strategies for Increasing Utilization

Communications of the IBIMA
Literature was reviewed to investigate the extent of teleworking in public organizations and to identify management strategies to encourage telework utilization. The benefits of teleworking are contrasted with its challenges. Concepts grounded in Expectancy Theory, Leonard, Beauvais and Scholl’s (1999) Meta-theory of Work Motivation, and…
12
Oct
2011

An Evaluation on Software Redocumentation Approaches and Tools in Software Maintenance

Communications of the IBIMA
This paper describes an evaluation on software documentation generated using redocumentation approaches and tools. The evaluation is based on the selected Document Quality Attributes (DQA). Firstly, the paper presents an overview of the software redocumentation and the main components involved in the process for better…
06
Oct
2011

The Impact of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) System Implementation on Organization: Case Study ERP Implementation in Indonesia

IBIMA Business Review
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is one of the most popular software technologies for supporting operational organization. It emphasizes business transformation which will lead to process change in its effort to maximize the company’s benefit. However, implementation of ERP system does not always give a strategic…
05
Oct
2011

Using Cloud Computing in Higher Education: A Strategy to Improve Agility in the Current Financial Crisis

Communications of the IBIMA
In the current financial crisis and being challenged by growing needs, universities are facing problems in providing necessary information technology (IT) support for educational, research and development activities. The objective of this paper is to find alternatives to the use of IT, while leading universities…