15 articles in this issue
Taku Kojima, Kakuro Amasaka
The researchers construct a defect occurrence prevention technique called the Total QA Network Model that uses a combination of quality assurance tools and establishes partnerships. Their focus is on integrated quality assurance spanning different departm... see more
Thongphon Promsaka Na Sakolnakorn
This article aims to present the benefits of using an outsourcing and subcontracting strategy to manage an organization. In this paper, it is concluded that governments, especially in developing countries, must encourage this strategy by establishing poli... see more
Kahina Lasfer, Art Pyster, Brian Sauser
To meet the challenges that todays pre-Kindergarten children will face as adults, they need effective development and learning organizations. Together, those organizations form the pre-Kindergarten (pre-K) learning enterprise, whose characteristics and be... see more
Marita N. Tolentino
This study of the use of university web portal as information management tool identified the respondents utilization and technology acceptance. The research aimed to: (1) to explore faculty members acceptance of university web portal as an information man... see more
Ma Teresa Garcia-Alvarez Garcia-Alvarez, Rosa Ma Mariz-Perez, Mercedes Teijero Alvarez
Intellectual Capital is of vital importance, both for the scientific community and business reality. For this reason, over the past decades its relevance has rapidly increased. Within Intellectual Capital (from here on IC), Structural Capital (from here o... see more
Antonio Villanueva-Cuevas
Tourism is one of the economic activities that most greatly affects the European Union, as this is the number one tourist destination in the world. Nevertheless, the current international economic crisis, together with the appearance of new tourist destin... see more
Nguyen Phuc Nguyen
Inter-firm cooperation has received attention in recent years due to its benefit. However, little has been studied about the role of behavior intention and process by which affects cooperation behavior. From studying influencing factors which come from en... see more
George Easton, Annette C. Easton
Students in a large, introductory IT course created individual RSS feeds that pointed to personal content and syndicated, course-related content. In a relatively short period the class had amassed approximately 1000 web resources. The process paralleled o... see more
Roberto E Montalvo
The article focuses on the influence that social media is having on the corporate landscape. It offers a view of recent activity in corporate social media management hiring and contrasts it to the webmaster hiring during the mid-1990s. The hiring activity... see more
Juris Firsts
This paper examines the process specifics that affects study environment at Medical College during a period of rapid changes. It describes the requirements of the environment and return on preparing professionals for regulated professions. These factors d... see more
Margaret L. Andersen, Yongtao (David) Hong, Limin Zhang
From the resource-based perspective, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and investment in information technology (IT) are both associated with a firms profitable performance. Corporations, taking socially responsible actions, can create valuable intang... see more
Duanning Zhou, Arsen Djatej, Yining Chen, David Senteney
This study empirically examines the possible relationships between the accounting majors in-depth exposure of database knowledge and their willingness to expand their knowledge beyond the required Accounting Information Systems (AIS) course by taking addi... see more
Koichiro Anabuki, Haruhiko Kaneta, Kakuro Amasaka
In this paper, a patent value evaluation method, which is part of corporate strategy; namely, A-PPM (Amasakalabs ? Patent Performance Method), is proposed. Improvement in the patent value indicates value creation for the engineers work. Based on the keywo... see more
Stuart Rosenberg, Joseph Mosca
A significant failure rate exists when it comes to organizational change. Managers understand the importance of organizational change, but many of them do not know how to execute it effectively. This study examines the reasons why the implementation of or... see more
Thomas Senaji, Andrew B. Nyaboga
According to the resource based view (RBV) of the firm (Wernerfeldt, 1984; Barney, 2004) and distributed knowledge system view of the firm, knowledge is a critical organizational resource that contributes to superior performance if relevant KM capabilitie... see more