Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 98 Issue 8

Environmental compliance in manufacturing: interpreting industry perceptions that we do but they don’t

Michael M. McKinney, Phillip E. Miller

The environmental laws have placed manufacturing concerns in a quandary regarding compliance with the complex and far‐reaching web of regulations which affect practically every…

An information system for operations management: co‐ordination and integration

Victor Portougal, Lech J. Janczewski

Wide implementation of computer‐based operations management systems now faces a new information problem. In many manufacturing companies the management system consists of several…

Strategic scanning and interpretation revisiting: foundations for a software agent support system ‐ Part 2: scanning the business environment with software agents

Shuhua Liu

Executive information systems, or strategic management support systems for senior managers, have traditionally addressed how to satisfy some predefined information needs of…

Integrating ISO 9000 with TQM spirits: a survey

Fenghueih Huarng

Drawing on the results from a questionnaire survey conducted in Taiwan, this paper discusses the experiences of small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs) in ISO 9000…

Measurement of the intensity of global information technology usage: quantitizing the value of a firm’s information technology

Toru Sakaguchi, C. Clay Dibrell

With the increasing convergence of international markets, a greater number of firms are entering the global arena. As these firms compete in the global marketplace, they utilize…