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{"title":"The E-Learning Cycle and Continuous Improvement for E-Entrepreneurs","authors":"Andrew Creed, Ambika Zutshi","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2012070101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2012070101","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this paper is to explore the integration of learning, continuous improvement and innovation theories as a basis for enhancing the education of e-entrepreneurs. Conceptual development of emerging interdisciplinary literature is combined with example analysis to develop the Circle of E-learning uniquely augmented by hermeneutics, action research and the creative destruction cycle of innovation using applied examples of e-entrepreneurship. Four R’s are discussed in the Circle of E-learning; Review, Revise, Reconstruct, and Reveal. Observations for each of the 4R’s are made regarding continuous improvement of the education of e-entrepreneurs. Findings are that the procedural pivot points indicated by the 4R’s can be helpful for administrators and educators to improve operations and outcomes in management and professional development situations.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129288269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"E-Entrepreneurship and ICT Ventures: Strategy, Organization and Technology","authors":"Süphan Nasir","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2012070105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2012070105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130737358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Discovering Key Factors in ERP Implementation through Success and Failure Cases","authors":"S. Kiran","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2012070103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2012070103","url":null,"abstract":"In the last two decades, ERP Systems became vital in the organizations. It is not enough to find out the appropriate ERP system for the company, to resolve the problems completely. The success of an ERP system is dependent on the performance of the ERP installation project. In this paper, at the beginning the definition of the ERP systems is given briefly and then the structure of a successful and effectively working ERP system is analyzed in the light of a case from the business world. At the end, the critical success factors of an ERP installation project are identified and examined with the help of three distinct ERP cases with different outcomes. DOI: 10.4018/jeei.2012070103 28 International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 3(3), 27-36, July-September 2012 Copyright © 2012, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. Management tools make ERP more customerfocused, project management oriented and content management-oriented. When Table 1 is compared to Table 2, it can be easily seen that market share of the top 3 companies has fallen down from 65% to 53% within 5 years. Meanwhile ERP market was grown nearly 7% every year (e.g., $43bn in 2010 and $40.6bn in 2009, Panorama Consulting, 2011). Competition gets tougher and new players become more powerful with the development of the ERP market. Hence, it’s becoming more important to implement problem-free and successful ERP projects. In the first section of this paper a problem free and profitable working ERP system (Benetton) has been described, showing how a perfect ERP system should function. In the Table 1. Market share of ERP software (Bailor, 2006) Vendor Market Share SAP 30,33% Oracle Applications 21.38% The Sage Group 17.44% Microsoft Dynamics 14.25% SSA Global Technologies (now Infor Global Solutions) 7.22% Others 9.38% Table 2. Market share of ERP software (Panorama Consulting, 2011) Vendor Market Share SAP 24% Oracle Applications 18% Microsoft Dynamics 11% Epicor Sage Infor IFS QAD Lawson Ross 11% ABAS Activant Solutions Inc. Baan Bowen and Groves Compiere Exact Netsuite Visibility Blue Cherry Exact HansaWorld Intuitive Syspro Others 36% 8 more pages are available in the full version of this document, which may be purchased using the \"Add to Cart\" button on the product's webpage: www.igi-global.com/article/discovering-key-factors-erpimplementation/70580?camid=4v1 This title is available in InfoSci-Journals, InfoSci-Journal Disciplines Business, Administration, and Management, InfoSci-Digital Marketing, E-Business, and E-Services eJournal Collection, InfoSci-Select. Recommend this product","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123266219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"IT Project Selection using Fuzzy Real Option Optimization Model","authors":"Shashank Pushkar, P. Kumari, Akhileshwar Mishra","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2012070104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2012070104","url":null,"abstract":"Optimal selection of interdependent IT and e-business projects for funding in multi-period has been challenging in the framework of Real Option analysis. This paper presents a mathematical model to optimize the fuzzy Option value for multi-stage portfolio of such projects. A fuzzy Option model is used to maximize the Option value of each project. The IT and e-service portfolio selection problem is formulated as a fuzzy zero–one integer programming model that can handle both uncertain and flexible parameters to determine the optimal project portfolio. The idea of optimizing the fuzzy real option value of the portfolio is to maximize the overall value and to minimize the downside risk of the selected portfolio for funding. A transformation method based on qualitative possibility theory is developed to convert the fuzzy portfolio selection model into a crisp mathematical model from the risk-averse perspective. The transformed model can be solved by an optimization technique. The optimization model and solution approach can help e-entrepreneurs and IT managers in optimal funding decision making for projects prioritization to implement e-business and other IT services. DOI: 10.4018/jeei.2012070104 38 International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 3(3), 37-49, July-September 2012 Copyright © 2012, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. wireless technical infrastructure, investments in data warehouse etc. Their investment appraisal may yield a negative NPV, but they create value over time. Such investments create valuable follow-on contingent investment opportunities. Real Option analysis has been an alternative approach that incorporates impact of flexibility while evaluating IT and e-business projects. The basic idea of the Real Options approach is to transfer the sophisticated Option pricing model used in the capital market theory to the valuation of risky projects. Real Option theory views investment activities as discretionary decisions in uncertain environment and thus is able to capture the value of decision flexibility ignored by existing net cash flow method. The initial investment of these projects is similar to purchase of an Option on a further dependent projects’ investment. The value of the project investment is not primarily determined by the initial investment but by the future investment opportunities provided by the initial investment. The NPV and the DCF based analysis are not suited well for risky IT and e-business projects as they are not able to estimate the managerial flexibility underlying such investments. Therefore, the value of the successful project is usually underestimated while the value of the failure is overestimated. In Real Option valuation approach, the initial investment of such project is similar to the purchase of an Option on the further dependent e-business project’s investment. Therefore, the basic idea is to add the c","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"124 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122512023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cloud Computing: Analysis of Various Platforms","authors":"Nawsher Khan, A. Noraziah, E. I. Ismail, M. M. Deris, T. Herawan","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2012040104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2012040104","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing is fundamentally altering the expectations for how and when computing, storage, and networking resources should be allocated, managed, consumed, and allow users to utilize services globally. Due to the powerful computing and storage, high availability and security, easy accessibility and adaptability, reliable scalability and interoperability, cost and time effective cloud computing is the top, needed for current fast growing business world. A client, organization or a trade that adopting emerging cloud environment can choose a well suitable infrastructure, platform, software, and a network resource, for any business, where each one has some exclusive features and advantages. The authors first develop a comprehensive classification for describing cloud computing architecture. This classification help in survey of several existing cloud computing services developed by various projects globally such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Sun and Force.com and by using this survey’s results the authors identified similarities and differences of the architecture approaches of cloud computing.","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134212036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Business Blogging and Enterprise Strategy: Controversy and Evidences","authors":"Nan Hu, Yun Wan, Chen-yun Ye, Lingbing Liu","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2012040101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2012040101","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128204874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Utilizing Association Rules for Improving the Performance of Collaborative Filtering","authors":"Zainab Khanzadeh, M. Mahdavi","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2012040102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2012040102","url":null,"abstract":"Internet technology has rapidly grown during the last decades. Presently, users are faced with a great amount of information and they need help to find appropriate items in the shortest possible time. Recommender systems were introduced to overcome this problem of overloaded information. They recommend items of interest to users based on their expressed preferences. Major e-commerce companies try to use this technology to increase their sales. Collaborative Filtering is the most promising technique in recommender systems. It provides personalized recommendations according to user preferences. But one of the problems of Collaborative Filtering is cold-start. The authors provide a novel approach for solving this problem through using the attributes of items in order to recommend items to more people for improving e-business activities. The experimental results show that the proposed method performs better than existing methods in terms of the number of generated recommendations and their quality. DOI: 10.4018/jeei.2012040102 International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 3(2), 14-28, April-June 2012 15 Copyright © 2012, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. suggestions in most e-commerce applications (Vozalis & Margaritis, 2003). This paper first describes recommender systems and three different methods widely used in such systems. The challenges involved in designing and implementing such systems are then discussed. Afterwards, we focus more on one of the problems of collaborative filtering method called cold start. We present an algorithm for solving this problem and then present our experimental results for the evaluation of the proposed method. Finally, we conclude the paper and give some directions for future research. 2. RECOMMENDER SYSTEMS Nowadays, mass of information is increasing faster than our power of processing information. This information is generated as result of producing new books, articles, issues, and so on every year. The largest e-commerce companies offer millions of items for sale. This is a challenge for users, because it is difficult for them to select their required items among the great mass of items. As a result, there is a need for automated recommendation methods. Recommender systems have emerged for this purpose. They include methods for finding important information and knowledge from large datasets with minimal user involvement (Shaw et al., 2009; Schiaffino & Amandi, 2009; Shani et al., 2005). Recommender systems have recently gained more attention because of their importance for e-commerce applications (Lin, 2000). They tend to understand users’ interests, using their history of buying behavior and suggest items that might interest them (Shaw et al., 2009). There are different definitions for recommender systems. A recommender system is defined as an information system that is able to analyze past behaviors and present","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127060519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A Simulation Framework for P2P Queries Routing for E-Business","authors":"Anis Ismail, Aziz Barbar","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2012040103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2012040103","url":null,"abstract":"On-line business transaction processing systems have so far been based on centralized or client-server architectures. The growing interest in Peer-to-Peer centralized or decentralized systems has inspired numerous research activities, though in a schema-based Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system, locating Peers (services) relevant to a given query is a basic problem for which different routing strategies of queries have been proposed. In this paper, the architecture, based on (Super-) Peers, is proposed, with a special focus on query routing. For an efficient query routing, (Super-) Peers having similar interests are grouped together and called SuperSuper-Peers (SSP). Super-Peers submit queries that are often processed by members of this group. A SSP is a specific Super-Peer that contains knowledge about 1) its Super-Peers, and 2) the other SSP. Using data mining techniques knowledge is extracted by processing queries of Peers that transit on the network. The advantage of this distributed knowledge is that it avoids making semantic mapping between heterogeneous data sources owned by (Super-) Peers each time the system decides to route query to other (Super-) Peers. DOI: 10.4018/jeei.2012040103 30 International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 3(2), 29-50, April-June 2012 Copyright © 2012, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. server and the relevant business data, decrease the risk of a centralized server to become a single point of failure, and diminish the risk of shutting down the centralized server for unfinished business transactions. Second, P2P architectures provide scalable environments. It is able to deal with transient users. The Peer-toPeer computing paradigm is viewed as a novel approach for people to share resources such as files and computing cycles, or to support collaborative tasks. During the past few years, the Internet has been gradually shifting toward a distributed system that supports more than a unique client-server application. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are distributed systems, in which nodes of equal roles and capabilities exchange information and services directly with each other, making it more popular. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems’ design, including efficient techniques for search, route queries and retrieval of data, allows the user to share huge volumes of data. However, the major problem in such networks is query routing, i.e., deciding to which other (Super-) Peers the query has to be sent for high efficiency and effectiveness. Traditional P2P systems offer support for richer queries; they provide the option to search by identifier, such as a keyword search with regular expressions. Search techniques for these systems must therefore operate under a different set of constraints than those techniques developed for persistent storage utilities. However, the technique of broadcasting all queries to all Peers suffer from limited efficien","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133202644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Intelligent Agent for Modeling and Processing Decisional Workflows in Logistics","authors":"T. Tamisier, F. Feltz","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2011100104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2011100104","url":null,"abstract":"The authors present the design and some implementation trials of Atlas, a new reasoning and decision making assistant used for processing complex and heterogeneous procedural workflows. Benefiting from a multicore implementation, Atlas includes different solving engines that are selected according to the intrinsic complexity of the problem being processed. The operational knowledge of Atlas is accessed through 2 different views. In an analytical view, the knowledge is modeled on elementary if-then rules, which are processed by a resolution engine written in the Soar architecture. A synthetic view offers a pictorial representation of all the knowledge, and in particular, shows the inter-dependence of the rules and their procedural references. In addition to allowing an efficient processing, the system checks the coherence of the knowledge and produces a justification of the decision with respect to relevant operational procedures. for a large set of daily life and business problems that can be formalized through inference rules and combinational cases (Marakas, 1998; Groothuis & Svensson, 2000). In particular, decision support tools are gaining ground both in large companies and public administrations, especially for the efficient handling of dynamic operational requests, such as the (re-) ascribing of tasks (Allen & Greenleaf, 2001) and in logistics control (Almejalli et al., 2004) or planning (Grosche & Rothlauf, 2004). A historical crossroad in Eastern Europe, the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg is nowadays characterized by the interconnection between DOI: 10.4018/jeei.2011100104 50 International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2(4), 49-57, October-December 2011 Copyright © 2011, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. rail, air and route transportation and an increasingly huge traffic. The project Atlas (Assistance to Transportational Logistics by Automated System) is concerned with the use of DecisionSupport Systems to sustain the growth of the country as a prominent logistics place. Atlas seeks to offer tailored solutions for transport management, and dedicated to all economic actors of the supply chain, whether seeking the best way to comply with administrative, legal, and business constraints, or willing to improve on important features such as secure collaboration, traceability, or multimodality. In particular, the decision system will help dealing with the EU-shaped freight framework, notably characterized by the development of multimodality, aids to take off road transport, and new working rules for truck drivers. As a main result, we develop a collaborative expert system aimed at processing regulation and operational rules related to multimodal freight transportation and involving the European and national contexts. To ease the integration in the working infrastructure of the larger number of related business and administration services, Atlas is d","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121653207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Building the Agile Enterprise with Service-Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management and Decision Management","authors":"Marinela Mircea","doi":"10.4018/jeei.2011100103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/jeei.2011100103","url":null,"abstract":"Organizations are permanently confronted with the need for adaptation to a complex business environment that is in a continuous change and transformation. Thus, the organization’s agility represents a key element in obtaining the strategic advantage and the market success. The paper analyzes the connection between the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the Business Process Management (BPM) and the Decision Management, as well as the way in which these modern approaches contribute to obtaining organization agility. The main changes determined by the organization’s service orientation, changes that are necessary for the success of the transition to the agile organization, are also identified and presented within the paper. Obtaining and maintaining agility implies the existence of an agile architecture at the level of organization. For that matter, the final part of the paper analyzes the creation of an organizational architecture based on standards and oriented on services. Four relevant approaches have been selected, which joined may lead to obtaining an agile enterprise architecture, namely: SOA, Cloud Computing, BPM, and Decision Management. obvious objective, with real chances of becoming imperative at the level of enterprise. The increase of business agility is attractive to all organizations, mainly for those in the private sector. It will enable the rapid and efficient adaptation to the market changes and the gain of the strategic advantage as well. Moreover, the increase of agility contributes to the reduction of time development of certain new processes and to the increase of flexibility of the already DOI: 10.4018/jeei.2011100103 International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and Innovation, 2(4), 32-48, October-December 2011 33 Copyright © 2011, IGI Global. Copying or distributing in print or electronic forms without written permission of IGI Global is prohibited. existing processes, as regards their modification and implementation. All these aspects lead to the decrease of time for the resolution of customers’ requests, to the increase of number of customers, to law costs of adaptation and finally to the increase of the organization’s income. Under the circumstances of a complex environment that changes continually, the organization’s agility is no longer a necessity but a condition for its penetration and maintenance on the market. An agile enterprise rapidly adjusts to the customer’s requests and to the market opportunities obtaining the competitive advantage on the market. This can only be accomplished if the organization’s operation mode is well understood by its stakeholders. Moreover, the agile enterprise entails agile architecture in order to react rapidly to the changing requests. From the point of view of informational systems, we will emphasize three major approaches/ technologies: Business Process Management (BPM) for independent functions orchestration, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for the projection and implementatio","PeriodicalId":102199,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. E Entrepreneurship Innov.","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121564535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}