Industrial Management & Data Systems: Volume 111 Issue 2

The human resource's influence in shaping IT competence

Jeff Crawford, Lori N.K. Leonard, Kiku Jones

The purpose of this paper is to study the influence of an organization's human resource on its IT competence. The IT human resource is examined in terms of worker tenure and…

Demand‐supply chain management: industrial survival recipe for new decade

Per Hilletofth

The purpose of this paper is to enhance the current understanding and knowledge of the demand‐supply chain management (DSCM) concept by determining its elements, benefits, and…

The impact of privacy concern on user adoption of location‐based services

Tao Zhou

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of privacy concern on user adoption of location‐based services (LBS).

Transplants' role stress and work outcome in IT outsourcing relationships

Hans Solli‐Sæther

The purpose of this paper is to provide insight into how individuals are affected by an outsourcing arrangement. The aim of this exploratory case study was to develop an…

Constraint priority scheduling using an agent‐based approach

C.Y. Lam, W.H. Ip

Scheduling needs to be concise and well‐determined but able to respond to the ever‐changing and uncertain market or environment against the constraints of production capacity…

Coordinating new product development with supply chain management

Per Hilletofth, David Eriksson

The purpose of this paper is to form an understanding of how new product development (NPD) relates to supply chain management (SCM), why the two fields should be coordinated, and…

Text recommender system using user's usage patterns

Yong Soo Kim

The purpose of this paper is to develop a novel and flexible recommender system based on usage patterns and keyword preferences using collaborative filtering (CF) and…

ISO 9001 diffusion analysis according to activity sectors

Josep Llach, Frederic Marimon, Merce Bernardo

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the evolution of the world‐wide diffusion, according to industrial sectors of activity, of the ISO 9000 family of quality standards.