Journal of International Technology and Information Management

INTRODUCTION Stock market prediction is regarded as a challenging task in financial time-series forecasting. This is primarily because of the uncertainties involved in the movement of the market. Many factors interact in the stock market including...

INTRODUCTION Information Systems Offshoring (ISO) has evolved to be an important sourcing option for many organizations (Dibbern & Heinzl, 2009). Technological advances combined with increased globalization and competitive pressures have forced...

INTRODUCTION Some have estimated that managers spend over 60% of their working hours participating in meetings (Tobia & Becker, 1990), and the purpose of these sessions is often accomplished only 50% of the time (LaPlante, 1993). Electronic...

LITERATURE SURVEY: THE LANDSCAPE OF CLOUD COMPUTING A recent survey on the status, applications, versatilities, popularities, and opportunities gained by using cloud computing platforms reveals interesting facts as follows: Many banks including...

INTRODUCTION With the growing development of wireless communications and information technologies and the prevalence of hand-held mobile devices (e.g., cellular phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), & tablet PCs), access to the Internet...

INTRODUCTION In order to secure the services of durables at minimum cost, producers and consumers confront invariably the question: How frequently should a stock of old durables be replaced by a stock of new ones? Clearly, the old durables should...

INTRODUCTION With increased competition in the marketplace, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have helped organizations gain and sustain competitive advantage via acquiring valuable knowledge (Kanter, 2009). However, since the global economic recession...

INTRODUCTION Enhancement in information access has necessitated new challenges to users for the fortification of susceptible data and systems resources against emergent number of security risks and theft related issues. Enterprise systems have witnessed...

INTRODUCTION Offshore software development has become a rapidly growing practice in the information technology (IT) industry. Rationale for outsourcing varies from financial aspects, renewing management agenda and focusing on core competencies,...

INTRODUCTION In the literature, there are several theories and models proposed for technology acceptance. In general, there are two streams of those theories and models; one is with assumption of rational decision and utility maximization and another...

INTRODUCTION In 1999, Bonner prescribed a conceptual framework entitled "Choosing teaching methods based on learning objectives: An integrative framework" to plan and teach accounting. Since then, Barth's (2008) call for using pedagogical conceptual...

INTRODUCTION Today, in large part, information security is the implementation of controls and best practices suggested by consultants, standard governing bodies (i.e. National Institute of Standards & Technology) (NIST), International Organization...

INTRODUCTION Companies are increasing their investment in technologies to enable better access to information and to gain a competitive advantage. Global competition is driving companies to reduce costs and enhance productivity, increasing their...

INTRODUCTION Background In recent years, the scope of the internet has expanded dramatically. Due to rapid development of technology and increased capabilities, the internet has grown in every aspect and has become an essential means of communication....

INTRODUCTION The emergence of the Internet with its open commercial exchange approach has revolutionized the business world by introducing information and communication i.e., e-business technologies (ICT), ushering in the business Information Age....

INTRODUCTION The shipping logistics chain involves a number of parties including the shippers, local freight forwarders, co-loaders, carriers, overseas freight forwarding agents and consignees. As the middlemen in the supply chain, freight forwarders...

INTRODUCTION The contemporary business environment is marked by increasing intensity of competition and a fast pace of change in markets and customer expectations. It is therefore becoming increasingly crucial that firms obtain and exercise the...

INTRODUCTION Internet has brought about enormous growth in the web-based business-to-consumer (B2C) e-commerce (Van Slyke et al.,2004), which is defined as the activity in which consumers get information and purchase product or service using Internet...

INTRODUCTION The Web has become a major enabler for new, data-intensive business applications such as e-tailing, customer relationship management, and supply chain management. Furthermore, new software service delivery models, including software...

INTRODUCTION Designers of knowledge-based systems are required to support day-to-day decision making by providing managers with readily accessible knowledge concerning financial transactions, strategic objectives, key issues, and resources. In addition,...

INTRODUCTION The business challenges of the 21st century are different than those of the 1960s or 1970s, as are the needs of employers. For many years, the Information Systems and Computer Science programs in the United States have been viewed as...

INTRODUCTION Purpose of the Research The Internet has offered organizations new and more advanced methods to conduct their business (Kamel, 2001; Karajaluto, Mattila, & Pento, 2002), and one business sector which has been highly affected...

INTRODUCTION As global trade and travel continually increase, there is a growing need to support communication among people from different countries. However, human interpreters are difficult to schedule and expensive, and as a result, only a small...

INTRODUCTION A knowledge-based system is a computer system that automates intelligent processes. Inference on a knowledge-based system is a field of artificial intelligence (AI). AI has found numerous applications in business management. An AI approach...

INTRODUCTION Muslims around the world share the same fundamental practice of performing five prayers a day. The five prayers (fajr, zuhur, asar, maghrib, and isha) are speard around the 24 hours based on astronomical position of the sun. Prayers'...

INTRODUCTION Researchers have long believed that the proper alignment of IT strategies and business strategies will lead to superior business performance (e.g., Chan, Huff, Barclay, & Copeland, 1997; Evans & Neu, 2008; Reich & Benbasat,...

INTRODUCTION Now that the Federal (Feds) government had already provided GM and Chrysler with $13.4 billion to support their operations though the first quarter of 2009, the questions confronting the new Administration is how many more billions...

INTRODUCTION The adoption of modern information communication technologies (ICT) which is not the same between the developed and developing countries has widened the division between the information rich and information poor. Some countries have...

ABSTRACT Spyware poses a serious threat of privacy infringement to unassuming internet users across the globe. Existing European legislation attempts to protect end-users from unethical review and use of their personal data. Outlawing spyware technology...

ABSTRACT Porter's Five Forces model of business strategy is foundational to understanding strategic forces and the role of information technology in the larger strategic framework of an organization. The authors describe how information technology...

ABSTRACT Despite the overall economic and social importance of nonprofit organizations and the plethora of scholarly literature on electronic commerce, few authors have combined these two fields to tackle the issue of online donations to nonprofit...

ABSTRACT A group support system (GSS) is a computer-based system that enables people in different places to discuss and make decisions on connected computers. Expanding GSS capabilities from the knowledge management perspective is believed to significantly...

ABSTRACT As technology continues to advance, instructors in higher education are able to enhance course instruction. Course support tools can be customized to meet the needs of the instructor, including file sharing, grade tracking, communicating,...

ABSTRACT Strategic reasoning behind ERP triggers a specific path to ERP implementation. In this article we present a simple typology of ERP implementation approaches based on literature review and an empirical research for both manufacturing and...

ABSTRACT The mobile telephony market is a very competitive market. Mobile telephony companies try to expand by forming strategic alliances with companies from various industries. The objective of this paper is to analyze the motives, the actions...

ABSTRACT The Internet industry is vertically integrated with Internet Backbone Providers (IBPs) and Internet Service Providers (ISPs.) Although there are many ISPs and IBPs in each stream, both markets are considered independent oligopolies in that...

This issue of Volume 16, 2007 marks the beginning of my sixth year as the editor of this prestigious journal. With the publication of this issue on time, we are one step closer to have the JITIM listed in SSCI. As the editor, I would like to thank...

ABSTRACT Modern organizations adopt Enterprise Resource Planning systems (ERP) to integrate their organizational data resources into unified systems. Researchers tend to concentrate on ERP implementation issues with only a handful studying ERP system...