Chinese enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendors have been able to defend the challenge from global ERP leaders such as SAP and Oracle. This article seeks possible reasons for major international ERP vendors not being able to dominate the Chinese ERP market. Taking an ensemble view of technology, we conceptualize ERP systems as being embedded in complex social contexts, which heavily influenc…
The purpose of this paper is to introduce a 3R (right time, right place, and right material) principle for characterizing failure in humanitarian/relief supply chains’ response to natural disasters, and describes a Bayesian methodology of the failure odds with regard to external factors that may affect the disaster-relief outcome, and distinctive supply chain proneness to failure.
The evidence for systemic failure in the governance of the maritime sector is clear from the widespread inability of many shipping policies to address the problems of environmental, security, safety and economic concerns central to the sector. The causes of this failure in governance and policy-making stem to a large extent from the inexorable spread of globalisation which has accelerated …
When an ethical failure of leadership is exposed, we are often disposed to look for an explanation of the leader's behavior, not an analysis of the moral status of what was done. On one such explanatory account, ethical failures are essentially volitional, not cognitive. Ethically fallen leaders knew that what they were doing was morally wrong but, nevertheless, were motivated to do it anyway. …
Software organisations have been experiencing software development failures since the start of software development. These failures include among others abandoned and runaway projects, cost overruns, and low quality software. One of the major causes of software development failure is the inability of software organisations to learn from past mistakes. Many intervention strategies have been trie…
The purpose of this paper is to analyze the potential impact of stakeholders’ behavior on business failure, through its influence on the generation and distribution of value added.
The purpose of this paper is to focus on the development of a business failure prediction model on a sample of small and medium-sized firms with head offices located in the region of Castilla y Leon (Spain), in order to prove the significance of non-financial information on the prediction of business failure.
When firms are dealing with negative earnings and/or economic downturns, operational restructuring is often initiated as a rescue tool. Some firms recover and prevail, while the others fail to survive and are subsequently delisted from stock exchange. The purpose of this paper is to identify factors that are significantly associated with the delisting risk of restructuring firms.
This paper examines the relationship among leadership skills, management skills and individual success and failure in formal organizations.
The purpose of this paper is to examine product failures in the consumer technology products industry to explain why some firms experience more aesthetic-related failures than others.
The Internet added another dimension to traditional commerce when online business became available. Because of the mushroom growth of online businesses in the late 1990s, DotCom bubbles began to burst after the initial euphoria of e-commerce. Since mid-2000, the mass failure of DotComs has had a significant impact on the e-ecosystem. However, there were strong survivors and successful DotComs a…
Maintaining a high level of availability of weapon systems during battles becomes important from the point of view of winning the battle. Due to attrition factors (failure due to battle damage and unreliability) and logistic delays in the repair process, maintaining the required level of availability is difficult. In this paper, we develop a simulation model for availability of fighter aircraft…
Food production lines consist of several machines in series, and for that reason if a failure occurs in a machine some or all of the in-process material upstream of the failure will have to be scrapped due to quality deterioration during the stoppage, therefore the necessity of better maintenance strategy is required. This paper aims to address this issue.
The purpose of this paper is to help the financial institutions improve the predictability of business failure of supply chain finance (SCF) clients with the use of external big data set.
The purpose of this paper is to present a generic framework to assess and simulate outsourcing risks in the supply chain.