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Showing 1 to 20 of 42 for “"business services"”.
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A fuzzy inference-based approach to planning quality of enterprise business services /
… systems (SoES). They are composed of enterprise business services (EBS), i.e. components implementing some business logic that is embedded in web services. EBS is not a software product because it is a service. This raises a number of new software engineering problems including problem of …
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Customer-driven innovation within U.S. business services and its impact on firm performance
… examines the innovative performance of 206 U.S. business service firms. Undeniably, a need exists for better comprehension of the service sector of developed economies. This research takes a unique view by applying a synthesis approach to studying innovation and attempts to build under a proposed …
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Firms and Territories in 4.0 Transformations: Evidence from Italian Technological Knowledge Intensive Business Services
… in particular technological knowledge-intensive business services, in 4.0 innovation activities is affected by the characteris-tics of the territory, regions, cities, or local production systems, in which they are located. The thesis consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 comprises a systematic …
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Prodigy Business Services--an "instructional case" study of marketing tactics for a computerized electronic information service
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1990.
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The entrepreneurial process and the role of gender: a comparative study of entrepreneurs in the business services and technology sectors in Scotland.
… literature broadly agrees that female owned businesses lag behind male owned business in terms of size and growth of the enterprise, the reasons for these differences are highly contested with no comprehensive explanations. This thesis seeks to explore the entrepreneurial process and the …
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Effect of the new product development process on the performance of global new service programs in the business-to-business services sector
The concern of this thesis is to understand how business-to-business service companies achieve success in their program of international new product development. Literature exists on the topics of new product development (NPD), services marketing, and international marketing. But, little research …
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Service identification for business process management.
… becoming the standard for providing systematic business solutions. Likewise, the requirements for identifying business services are fast changing and a solution to the service identification problem needs a robust approach. It is known that this task of identifying candidate services is the …
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International franchise distribution: Theory and empirical evidence
… in the food service, hotels/motels, and business services industries choose between owning the wholesaler or contracting with an independent wholesaler to distribute their franchise system in host countries. US franchisors own the wholesaler when they make an investment in a wholly-owned …
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Social Structure and the Dynamics of Interfirm Ties: The Audit Services Market, 1986 to 2002
… taken here can be applied to similar markets for business services, and the findings speak the nature of contemporary corporate bigness and its attendant social problems.
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Business incubators as an economic development strategy : a case study of Oakland's communications technology cluster
Business incubators are a rapidly growing trend in economic development. The National Business Incubator Association estimates there are nearly 600 incubators in North America today which each help create over 500 jobs. Through the provision of real estate, physical amenities, and business …
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Vendor Firm Characteristics and Buyers' Perceptions of Transaction Costs and Relationship Governance
<p>The utilization of outsourced business services continues to grow as organizations focus on core competencies. Outsourced services span the gamut from financial services to information processing to engagement of third party logistic services by enterprise customers. When outsourcing business …
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The Heinrich Model: Determining Contemporary Relevance
… Insurance, and Real Estate, Professional and Business Services, Educational and Health Services, Leisure, Entertainment, and Hospitality, and Other Services. This data was organized and charted in a way in which a descriptive statistical analysis could be performed to provide an …
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Chinese American cultural identity in the urban landscape: Sunset Park, Brooklyn
… of rising real estate prices and loss of small business services, great numbers of Chinese residents and businesses have moved out to new communities, such as Sunset Park, Brooklyn. This thesis applies descriptive methods to compare and contrast several historical communities that are similar to …
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Core curricular elements of effective undergraduate technology management academic programs
… expertise in four industry sectors (i.e., business services, education, government, and manufacturing); in addition, 18 executive board members of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation and 30 members of the Southern Wayne County Chamber of Commerce were queried.</p> <p>Information …
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An interactive and context-driven approach to mobile decision support services
… prior knowledge about a public domain's list of services can conveniently and e ectively use those services in companion with complementary utility services. Such a decision support service utilizes techniques from semantic analysis that are orchestrated through a new concept namely "Smart …
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Efficient web services discovery and composition
… paradigm promises to bridge the gap between Business Services and IT Services, enable technology to help people perform business processes more efficiently and effectively, and enable businesses and organizations to collaborate globally through standard services. With the rapid development …
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Information and Communication Technology usage in development of Microfinance Institutions Services in periurban Areas in Tanzania: A Case of Ilala Municipality, Dar-es-Salaam Region
… of ICT usage i ndevelopment of MFIs in loan services. MFIs are working tremendously to the empowerment, poverty reduction and improvement of living standards for the poor people in peri urban areas. In this research study; questionnaires used to gather and MFIs. The data collected from the …
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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY USAGE IN DEVELOPMENT OF MICROFINANCE INSTITUTIONS SERVICES IN PERI-URBAN AREAS TANZANIA: A CASE OF ILALA MUNICIPALITY IN DAR-ES-SALAAM CITY
… of ICT usage in development of MFIs in loan services. MFIs are working tremendously to the empowerment, poverty reduction and improvement of living standards for the poor people in peri urban areas. In this research study; questionnaires used to gather and MFIs. The data collected from the …
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Towards a Service-Oriented Enterprise: The Design of a Cloud Business Integration Platform in a Medium-Sized Manufacturing Enterprise
… of the firm that leverages the paradigm of services computing to integrate the capabilities of the firm with the complementary competencies of business partners to offer customers with value-added products and services. Design science research in information systems was employed to pursue …
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