In the current postmodern society we live in (a society where social ties are formed around market mediated offerings), brands play very powerful and influential roles over consumers. Since people are likely to use a brand they like as a status symbol or value system to determine and show their self-worth …

Is it feasible to create a sustainable and profitable solution for the degassing of barges in which an optional controlled return of chemical feedstock and chemical vapor molecules from discharged barges are brought back into the supply chain to the chemical producers necessitates.

Pedaling Forward is a collaborated project created by Point Asia co. ltd and Xinosys co. ltd. Its objective is to connect (Taiwanese) bicycle manufacturers directly to bicycle retailers worldwide through the Patisco.com platform. End of 2012 Pedaling Forward had taken an interest in the Dutch bicycle …

The importance of sustainability is rapidly increasing and by now has an increasing impact on the operations of organizations. In modern organizations many of the business processes are supported by IT, which makes the relation between sustainability and IT an important subject. However, how to integrate …

This paper reports a study into the relationship between the configuration of the process of Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP) and the success of SISP. SISP is an important activity in the alignment of information technology systems and services to business requirements. However, despite …

Metastructuration actions (overarching activities from management that shape and align users’ activities of IS/IT use) are often advocated to improve the success of IS/IT implementation. But how can management support enhance the success of IS/IT by metastructuration actions, when they are dealing with …

Although the contribution of user participation to information sys-tems/information technology (IS/IT) project success is generally acknowledged in the literature, empirical evidence of the different attributes of user participation practices and the role of management in this process is still largely …

Is it financially feasible to start a sport horse trading stable in Lazio, Italy?

Metastructuration actions (overarching activities from (top)- management that shape and align users’ activities of IS/IT use) are often advocated to improve the success of IS/IT implementation. But is the potential of these actions situational to the interactions between different stakeholders; and if …