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HANDBOOK ON BUSINESS INFORMATION SYSTEMS


CONTENTS

FRONT MATTER
Angappa Gunasekaran and Maqsood Sandhu
i
Part I: Health Care Information Systems
Healthcare Supply Chain Information Systems Via Service-Oriented Architecture
SULTAN N. TURHAN and ÖZALP VAYVAY
3
The Role of the CIO in the Development of Interoperable Information Systems in Healthcare Organizations
ANTÓNIO GRILO, LUÍS VELEZ LAPÃO, RICARDO JARDIM-GONCALVES and VIRGILIO CRUZ-MACHADO
25
Information Systems for Handling Patients' Complaints in Health Organizations
ZVI STERN, ELIE MERSEL and NAHUM GEDALIA
47
How to Develop Quality Management System in a Hospital
VILLE TUOMI
69
Part II: Business Process Information Systems
Modeling and Managing Business Processes
MOHAMMAD EL-MEKAWY, KHURRAM SHAHZAD and NABEEL AHMED
93
Business Process Reengineering and Measuring of Company Operations Efficiency
NATAŠA VUJICA HERZOG
117
Value Chain Re-Engineering by the Application of Advanced Planning and Scheduling
YOHANES KRISTIANTO, PETRI HELO and AJMAL MIAN
147
Cultural Auditing in the Age of Business: Multicultural Logistics Management, and Information Systems
ALBERTO G CANEN and ANA CANEN
189
Efficiency as Criterion for Typification of the Dairy Industry in Minas Gerais State
LUIZ ANTONIO ABRANTES, ADRIANO PROVEZANO GOMES, MARCO AURÉLIO MARQUES FERREIRA, ANTÔNIO CARLOS BRUNOZI, JÚNIOR and MAISA PEREIRA SILVA
199
A Neurocybernetic Theory of Social Management Systems
MASUDUL ALAM CHOUDHURY
221
Systematization Approach for Exploring Business Information Systems: Management Dimensions
ALBENA ANTONOVA
245
A Structure for Knowledge Management Systems Assessment and Audit
JOAO PEDRO ALBINO, NICOLAU REINHARD and SILVINA SANTANA
269
Risk Management in Enterprise Resource Planning Systems Introduction
DAVIDE ALOINI, RICCARDO DULMIN and VALERIA MININNO
297
Part III: Industrial Data and Management Systems
Asset Integrity Management: Operationalizing Sustainability Concerns
R. M. CHANDIMA RATNAYAKE
323
How to Boost Innovation Culture and Innovators?
ANDREA BIKFALVI, JARI JUSSILA, ANU SUOMINEN, HANNU VANHARANTA and JUSSI KANTOLA
359
A Decision Support System for Assembly and Production Line Balancing
A. S. SIMARIA, A. R. XAMBRE, N. A. FILIPE and P. M. VILARINHO
383
An Innovation Applied to the Simulation of RFID Environments as Used in the Logistics
MARCELO CUNHA DE AZAMBUJA, CARLOS FERNANDO JUNG, CARLA SCHWENGBER TEN CATEN and FABIANO PASSUELO HESSEL
415
CUSTOMERS' ACCEPTANCE OF NEW SERVICE TECHNOLOGIES: THE CASE OF RFID
ALESSANDRA VECCHI, LOUIS BRENNAN and ARISTEIDIS THEOTOKIS
431
Operational Efficiency Management Tool Placing Resources in Intangible Assets
CLAUDELINO MARTINS DIAS, JUNIOR, OSMAR POSSAMAI and RICARDO GONÇALVES
457
Interactive Technology Maps for Strategic Planning and Research Directions Based on Textual and Citation Analysis of Patents
ELISABETTA SANI, EMANUELE RUFFALDI and MASSIMO BERGAMASCO
487
Determining Key Performance Indicators: An Analytical Network Approach
DANIELA CARLUCCI and GIOVANNI SCHIUMA
515
Part IV: Strategic Business Information Systems
The Use of Information Technology in Small Industrial Companies in Latin America — The Case of the Interior of São Paulo, Brazil
OTÁVIO JOSÉ DE OLIVEIRA and GUILHERME FONTANA
539
Technology: Information, Business, Marketing, and CRM Management
FERNANDO M. SERSON
565
Transfer of Business and Information Management Systems: Issues and Challenges
R. NAT NATARAJAN
585
Toward Digital Business EcoSystem Analysis
AURELIAN MIHAI STANESCU, LUCIAN MITI IONESCU, VASILE GEORGESCU, LIVIU BADEA, MIHNEA ALEXANDRU MOISESCU and IOAN STEFAN SACALA
607
The Dynamics of the Informational Contents of Accounting Numbers
AKINLOYE AKINDAYOMI
639
Part V: Information Systems in Supply Chain Management
Supply Chain Enabling Technologies: Management Challenges and Opportunities
DAMIEN POWER
655
Supply Chain Management
AVNINDER GILL and M. ISHAQ BHATTI
675
Measuring Supply Chain Performance in SMES
MARIA ARGYROPOULOU, MILIND KUMAR SHARMA, RAJAT BHAGWAT, THEMISTOKLES LAZARIDES, DIMITRIOS N. KOUFOPOULOS and GEORGE IOANNOU
699
Information Sharing in Service Supply Chain
SARI UUSIPAAVALNIEMI, JARI JUGA and MAQSOOD SANDHU
717
RFID Applications in the Supply Chain: An Evaluation Framework
VALERIO ELIA, MARIA GRAZIA GNONI and ALESSANDRA ROLLO
737
Part VI: Tools for the Evaluation of Business Information Systems
Tools for the Decision-Making Process in the Management Information System of the Organization
CARMEN DE PABLOS HEREDERO and MÓNICA DE PABLOS HEREDERO
765
Preliminaries of Mathematics in Business and Information Management
MOHAMMED SALEM ELMUSRATI
791
Herding Does Not Exist or Just a Measurement Problem? A Meta-Analysis
NIZAR HACHICHA, AMINA AMIRAT and ABDELFETTAH BOURI
817
Object-Oriented Metacomputing with Exertions
MICHAEL SOBOLEWSKI
853
A New B2B Architecture Using Ontology and Web Services Technology
YOUCEF AKLOUF
889
The Roles of Computer Simulation in Supply Chain Management
HONGYU JIA and PENG ZUO
911
BACK MATTER
Angappa Gunasekaran and Maqsood Sandhu
945
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