Journal of Enterprise Information Management: Volume 22 Issue 3

The impact of ICT‐enabled offshoring announcements on share prices

Elizabeth Daniel, Devendra Kodwani, Sanjukta Datta

The purpose of this paper is to determine the impact of announcements regarding information and communication technologies (ICTs)‐enabled offshoring on the share prices of public…

Homeworkers' usage of mobile phones; social isolation in the home‐workplace

Banita Lal, Yogesh K. Dwivedi

When working remotely, homeworkers are provided with various technologies which may help them to avoid experiencing feelings of social isolation from colleagues. These include the…

Current trends in modeling inter‐organizational cooperation

Antonia Albani, Jan L.G. Dietz

Modern enterprises face a strong economical pressure to increase competitiveness, to operate on a global market, and to engage in alliances of several kinds. In order to meet the…

An exploratory study of alignment ERP implementation and organizational development activities in a newly established firm

Jau‐Rong Chen

The importance of alignment of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation for organizational strategies has been widely recognized. However, ERP implementation in the…

Practice‐oriented toolkits for virtual communities of practice

Demosthenes Akoumianakis

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the collaborative practices of virtual teams carrying out knowledge‐based work and the tools required/used to assemble “collective”…

Performance measures and metrics for e‐supply chains

Murali Sambasivan, Zainal Abidin Mohamed, Tamizarasu Nandan

e‐Supply chains are fast becoming a reality. In order to manage such supply chains efficiently and effectively, traditional measures of supply chain performance are not adequate…

Quantifying coordination work as a function of the task uncertainty and interdependence

Alba N. Nuñez, Ronald E. Giachetti, Giacomo Boria

The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the understanding of coordination in business processes by quantifying how the coordination load is affected by changes in task…

Editorial

Zahir Irani