Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 104 Issue 2

Developing optimism to improve performance: an approach for the manufacturing sector

Kenneth W. Green, Bobby Medlin, Dwayne Whitten

An organizational optimism model is developed and tested. The constructs of optimism subculture and goal setting process are investigated as antecedents to the level of employee…

An integrated evaluation system based on the continuous improvement model of IS performance

Choon Seong Leem, Injoo Kim

In order to achieve competitive business goals, every enterprise needs to evaluate the current level of information systems performance and their utilization. The evaluation…

Prediction of CASE adoption: a neural network approach

Steven A. Morris, Timothy H. Greer, Cary Hughes, W. Jeff Clark

The failure of organizations to adopt CASE tools has been an area of interest to business researchers for over a decade. The purpose of this study is to test whether the previous…

Impact of computer disasters on information management: a study

Subhash C. Kundu

Primary data based on a sample of 274 executives was analyzed to assess the impact of computer disasters on information management. Company type‐wise impact of computer disasters…

Searching advertising placement in cyberspace

Ta‐Tao Chuang, P. Pete Chong

The effective placement of ads is important, especially those placed on the World Wide Web. As a supplement to existing measure of visit count, proposes the use of “exposure” as a…

Partnering paradigms? Knowledge management and relationship marketing

Jennifer Rowley

Knowledge management and relationship marketing are two significant management paradigms, but they emerge from distinct disciplinary traditions. Communication is at the heart of…

A connectance‐based approach for managing manufacturing knowledge

Kim Hua Tan, Ken Platts

This paper proposes the use of the connectance concept for managing manufacturing knowledge. The concept utilises inductive rules to specify relationships between variables. A…

Mobile agent technology and application for online global logistic services

Amy J.C. Trappey, Charles V. Trappey, Jiang‐Liang Hou, Bird J.G. Chen

With the growing trend toward the use of international supply chain and e‐commerce, logistic service providers for product warehousing, transportation and delivery are placing…