... Equation Modelling (SEM) using data from 117 manufacturing firms in the UK. Findings BT helps to develop quality information exchange capability (QINF), and quality cooperation and integration capability (QINT). QINF and QINT help to develop supply chain responsiveness capability (QRES), which improves...

...Wenhua Yang; Yigang Lin Purpose In the context of circular economy, tourism resources development and integrated marketing need to interact with multiple businesses, data processing with big data technology, and in the information age, the best means of integrated marketing is to integrate...

... whereas 58 per cent have reached at least a minimum level of vertical integration. On the other hand, 74 per cent PSUs are at transactional level and 69 per cent have achieved at least a minimum level of vertical integration. Practical implications – For achieving a one-stop government portal...

... © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 E-banking Influential factors Integration SOA The efforts undertaken by banks to improve their services through information technology (IT) have resulted in the development of many incompatible information systems (IS). This situation has...

...Zhixiang Chen; Li Li Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the information support technologies of integrated production planning control for OEM (original equipment manufacturer) driven networked manufacturing systems, and offer implications to firms for implementing networked...

...Rakhi Tripathi; M.P. Gupta; Jaijit Bhattacharya Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the position of interoperability of government and corporate portals in technological adoption space in India in terms of three critical dimensions: data integration, process integration...

... these solutions. This research aims to provide a proposed architecture to build integrated B2B e‐Commerce hub solutions. It also aims to make use of bottom‐up/top‐down approaches to building an integrated solution and to resolve the reasons for the failure of previous generations of B2B e‐commerce hubs. Design...

.... Findings Data suggest that most firms have not merged information system (IS) integration with the right complementary organizational resources. The findings also support the notion that competitive advantage does not arise from replicable resources, but from complex, firm‐specific and intangible...

... on the business process level. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Integration Business process re‐engineering Work design Task analysis The division of labor breaks up a task into subtasks, and assigns the subtasks to separate workers for dramatic improvements in productivity...

... integration is an identified goal for the firms involved and to evaluate the extent of integration achieved through these projects. Design/methodology/approach A case study approach is used, with four separate cases being examined, leading to cross‐case analysis and conclusions. The primary form of data...

... the existence of “informational fragmentation” (Muscatello et al., 2003) or of “functional silos” (Beretta, 2002), with all that this implied in terms of dysfunction, redundancy, and waste. The need for IS integration thus became more and more urgent. This is when enterprise resource planning (ERP...

...Marinos Themistocleous; Gail Corbitt Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether business process integration is feasible. Design/methodology/approach This paper employs a single case study strategy to research the aforementioned research question. The case study is exploratory...

...Alan Serrano; Mariëlle den Hengst Purpose Business process (BP) and information systems (IS) communities support the idea that BP and IS design should be integrated. Although there are a large number of modelling techniques to aid BP and IS design, there is little indication of which techniques...

...Marinos Themistocleous; Michael Roseman; Peter Loos; David Sammon; Frederic Adam Purpose The need for an integrated enterprise‐wide approach to management information pronounced data warehousing (DW) the “hot topic” of the early‐to‐mid‐1990s. However, it became unfashionable in the late 1990s...

...Randall Perrey; Alex Johnston; Mark Lycett; Ray Paul This paper argues that enterprise scale information systems integration should be driven by business value propositions rather than system level requirements. It reviews the existing literature of value and presents a summary of the issues...

...Amir M. Sharif; Tony Elliman; Peter E.D. Love; Atta Badii Enterprise application integration (EAI) technologies provide the means to integrate strategic business solutions within and across the component parts of organisational information system infrastructures. The continuing development of both...

... information systems to support their operational and financial goals. This article argues that the need to integrate these packaged software applications with each other as well as with existing or legacy business applications drives the need for a standardised integration architecture to more flexibly...

...Marinos Themistocleous Enterprise integration is considered to be of great strategic significance in the support of organisations to achieve a competitive advantage. Traditional approaches to integration such as electronic data interchange (EDI) have provided a wide range of benefits but have...

..., which seeks to elicit the various determinants of employing ICTs and the level of sophistication of use. The paper analyses the approach used to facilitate the introduction and implementation of new technologies, with a view to achieving integration with business processes. The discussion, based...

...Atta Badii; Amir Sharif The key trends in emerging ICT integration choices for cost‐effective, flexible knowledge integration, work‐flow‐embedded evaluation and eCRM‐driven value innovation are examined. Enterprise knowledge integration initiatives can create socio‐technical and cultural tensions...