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30
Jul
2008

The Role of Gender in the Perception of barriers to E-commerce Adoption in SMEs: An Australian Study

Communications of the IBIMA
The association between e-commerce barriers and gender has not been explored in-depth, even though it has implications for the adoption of this technology. This paper aims to add insight into how male and female SME owners/managers perceive different e-commerce barriers. The findings of a survey…
29
Jul
2008

Toward An Information And Communication Technology Development In Developing Countries

Communications of the IBIMA
The rapidly development and exceptional growing of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have continuously affected all aspects of life and activities in the world. ICT becomes a major factor that drives social, economic and human or individual development in one country. Individual who can't accept…
28
Jul
2008

EB Challenges and how to overcome them in Dubai

Communications of the IBIMA
On their way to success and the achievement of benefits in the e-business arena many companies worldwide are to overcome inhibitors that this area of business is facing nowadays. The best way of overcoming those is the identification and evaluation of so-called critical success factors…
27
Jul
2008

Value-Program Analysis: Capturing the Pluralistic Nature of IT Enabled Organizational Action

Communications of the IBIMA
This paper introduces a framework for analyzing technology-based organizational action. It presents the concept of 'value programs', to represent the complex, pluralistic nature of organizational action around the application of IT systems. The nature of IT based organizational functioning and change is distinguished in terms…
26
Jul
2008

The Relationship between Knowledge Management and Trust: Malaysian Perspective

Communications of the IBIMA
Delivering professional service to its clients, knowledge is auditing firm’s core capital. In conducting its practices and businesses, auditing firms not only capture knowledge within its organization, among its own people but also capturing and protecting the information of their clients. The nature of auditing…
25
Jul
2008

Managing the Cost of Information Technology Resources in Accounting Education

Communications of the IBIMA
Manufacturing systems are often costly to develop, operate, and maintain. Their flawless functioning is a major premise of market success in today’s global market. In this article we describe a complex supply management and repair flow control system, developed in order to enhance the competitive…
24
Jul
2008

Corporate Logistics Improvement through Automated Processes: A Romanian Case Study for a Repair Flow Control and Supply Management System

Communications of the IBIMA
Manufacturing systems are often costly to develop, operate, and maintain. Their flawless functioning is a major premise of market success in today’s global market. In this article we describe a complex supply management and repair flow control system, developed in order to enhance the competitive…
23
Jul
2008

The Three-Quarter Moon:A New Model for E-Commerce Adoption

Communications of the IBIMA
One of economic development main drivers is technology. Technology adoption usually results in rapid economic growth, and rapid economic growth is usually accompanied by rapid structural change. It is now widely accepted by policy makers, enterprises and society at large that information and communications technologies…
22
Jul
2008

Designing Online Stores for a Trust-Building Interaction

Communications of the IBIMA
Building customer trust remains one of the main challenges facing electronic commerce today, largely because previous research efforts have not explained trust formation as a process which can be influenced through a number of discrete interaction stages with the vendor. In this paper, we present…
21
Jul
2008

Marketing Practices in the Management of Romanian Organizations

Communications of the IBIMA
The concept of organizational culture has been accepted by the Romanian companies in recent years. A cultural profile was obtained from a study performed in 2004-2006. Three trends have been pointed out: Exaggerated Competitiveness, Conventionalism, and Self-Development. Romanian entrepreneurs are permanently looking for a personal…