The International Technology Management Review

Volume 5, Issue 2, June 2015
Research Article

1. Designing a conceptual framework to enhance the success of Business Process Reengineering in hospital environments based on holonic structures

Alireza Movassagh
Pages: 63 - 71
In order to tackle the numerous problems facing with service management in healthcare industry, various quality improvement (QI) techniques are used for improving the quality of services in this section. Among with these techniques, Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) has more potential to solve these...
Review Article

2. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Systems: Design, Trends and Deployment

Dania Mahmoud Bahssas, Adnan Mustafa AlBar, Md. Rakibul Hoque
Pages: 72 - 81
The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system is a famous widespread solution in business organization which is used and verified the integration and automation of the processes, performance improvements, and cost reduction. However, new innovations in technology trends that forced ERP designers to go...
Research Article

3. ICT adoption in affecting organizational performance among Indonesian SMEs

Lucy Chairoel, Setyawan Widyarto, Vera Pujani
Pages: 82 - 93
The objective of this research is to identify conceptually factors affecting ICT adoption and its impact among Indonesian SMEs. The prior studies involve conceptual model of the combination between Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) theory, The technology-organization-environment (TEO) theory, and Iocovou’s...
Review Article

4. Knowledge Creation in Virtual Communities – Exploring Practices in Open Source Software Hacker Communities

Meera Sarma, Thomas Matheus
Pages: 94 - 104
This paper offers an exploratory conceptual and theoretical examination of knowledge creation within virtual communities of hackers. By distinguishing between different types of virtual communities, we argue that hacker communities involved in free and open source activities possess special structural...
Research Article

5. Influences on intentions to use a personal carbon trading system (NICHE - The Norfolk Island Carbon Health Evaluation Project)

Alex Hendry, Gary Webb, Alicia Wilson, Bruce Armstrong, Bill Smart, Garry Egger
Pages: 105 - 116
This paper presents the results of a baseline survey undertaken for the Norfolk Island Carbon Health Evaluation (NICHE) project and analyzes the relationships among key variables hypothesized as affecting respondents’ intentions to use a personal carbon trading (PCT) system. The survey was delivered...