Latest articles

31
May
2008

Development of Customer Value Model for Healthcare Services

Communications of the IBIMA
The economic and the living standard have been improved dramatically in Taiwan over the last decade. People become more health conscious and demand for high quality healthcare service consequentially. Due to the conduction of National Health Insurance and its improved policy of insurance payment, competition…
30
May
2008

The Necessity to Have An Integrated National Information System in The Public Health Care System: A Case Study from Romania

Communications of the IBIMA
In the last few years in Romania started a complex project in order to create an effective informational structure in the public health system. The aim of the project also tries to demonstrate the utility of this informational system for the deliverance of European Health…
29
May
2008

Progress towards the Implementation of the National Innovation System in Tunisia

Communications of the IBIMA
In the beginning of the nineties, Tunisia, along with many other developing countries, recognized the need to develop specific policies for science and technology. New institutional and governmental structures were created with a mission to encourage and support scientific and technological research and development. About…
28
May
2008

An Integrative Model Linking IT-Business Strategic Alignment and Firm Performance: The Mediating Role of Pursuing Innovation and Knowledge Management Strategies

Communications of the IBIMA
While researchers have encouraged more research on the causal chains between IT investments and firm performance, results of empirical studies have been non-conclusive. This is partly due to the exclusion of IT-business strategic alignment. Further, scholars have continuously called for research that addresses the antecedent…
27
May
2008

Evaluation of the Telematics Network Consortium La Silsa-La Moran

Communications of the IBIMA
In the continuous and rapid growth that the technology has, people are all engaged, even without realizing it, the important thing is to exploit all the advantages that it gives to them. In these times much is what it has been said about the knowledge…
26
May
2008

Implications of Knowledge Transfer and ICT on the Level of Labor Productivity in Mexico: An International Comparative Analysis

Communications of the IBIMA
The leading role information and communications technologies (ICTs) and knowledge dissemination plays in labor productivity has been the object of attention of many authors (1a). However, few empirical studies exist that support the proposed elements in the Mexican context. This study, one in a series…
25
May
2008

Customer Satisfaction Fuzzy Cognitive Map in Banking Industry

Communications of the IBIMA
Customer satisfaction is one of the key factors in modern marketing and customers’ behavior analysis. Banking industry is one of the numerous services in which the customer satisfaction has had an ever increasing importance in the corresponding research areas. The problem here is the complexity…
24
May
2008

Management Framework for Globally Distributed Teams in IT Industry

Communications of the IBIMA
Software development is a highly creative and collaborative endeavor in which success requires a fine degree of coordination between many people from many different disciplines, often working across different geographies and time zones and sometimes across cultural borders. When implementing software development in a global…
23
May
2008

Privacy in the Converged Communications Platform

Communications of the IBIMA
People care about their personal privacy and have a right to expect that their personal details remain confidential. Yet almost every organization we deal with in our daily lives holds some personal information about us. The convergence of telecommunications, broadcasting, data communication, multimedia and other…
22
May
2008

Structural Breaks and Time-varying Parameter: A Survey with Application

Communications of the IBIMA
The theme of instability or breaks in macroeconomic series has attracted considerable attention over the last several decades. There are a large number of tests for structural changes or the stability of parameters. We focus the review of unit-root tests, unit-root tests including possible structural…