...Paul Hong; David Dobrzykowski; Young Won Park; Sufian Qrunfleh; Monideepa Tarafdar; T.S. Ragu‐Nathan Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine alignment between supplier management practices and information systems (IS) strategies (i.e. particular IS applications portfolios), and its effects...

... the Institute for Supply Chain Management, the world's largest SCM association. Based on previous literature, the authors suggest: Gioconda Quesada can be contacted at: quesadag@cofc.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Procurement Sourcing Electronic commerce Information systems...

... matrix. Then, these synthesized results of these priorities are normalized to select the highest priority alternative (Saaty, 2003). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Information systems Decision making Benchmarking Resource management Enterprise resource planning (ERP...

... implications The universities involved in the project have discovered the importance of benchmarking as a means of improving their processes and systems. Originality/value This paper represents a first attempt at developing a model to compare the condition of the administrative information systems...

... internationally. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Benchmarking Multinational companies Information systems Given the nature of benchmarking, our focus has to be at the operational level. In the current literature, many frameworks at the operational level do not have all structural...

... took part in the project, providing a net participation rate of 59 percent. This study considered only the opinions of the highest ranked executives of the IS functions within these organizations. Benchmarking Kuwait Information systems Identification of the top management issues...

...Suresh Chalasani; Jayavel Sounderpandian In this paper, we propose a set of standard benchmarks for evaluating B2B supply chain information systems. The supply chain management systems that we focus on communicate between collaborating partners via the Internet using such languages...

...J.P. Kawalek; N. Jayaratna There has been growing interest in the use of a variety of interpretative approaches to researching in the field of information systems. This type of research typically applies social theory to help develop an in‐depth interpretation of some of the features...

...Nansi Shi; David Bennett As a means of benchmarking their position and assisting with anticipating an uncertain future, the identification of critical information systems (IS) management issues frameworks is becoming an increasingly important research task for both academics and industrialists...