The relationship of strategic business alignment and enterprise information management in achieving better business performance
Four constructs are developed and five research hypotheses are tested in a structural equation model focused on the role of strategic business alignment and information management in achieving business performance. The data to develop the constructs and test the model are based on a survey of 226 manufacturing firms in the US automobile components industry. The research is interdisciplinary in nature with a focus on building theory in an under-researched area of study by testing a causal model. The structural equation model analysis supports the general theory that ‘the degree of business strategy alignment affects enterprise information management and time-related operating performance, and through these two intermediate constructs, improves business performance’. Enterprise information management is the key mediating variable in the causal model. Other insights based on statistical evidence are presented such as strategic business alignment, which do not directly improve time-related operating performance but must act indirectly through enterprise information management (the mediation construct) to improve performance.
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- "and Oracle have started expanding their efforts and providing solutions for Wall Street financial services companies . The popularity of enterprise systems applications in financial sectors has attracted considerable academic interests as well ( Liang 2008) . Wu et al . ( 2009 ) first propose the concept of Financial Industry - oriented ES . Zhou et al . ( 2008 ) and Beheshti and Beheshti ( 2010 ) highlight how enterprise systems help organisations achieve better performance and higher productivity including financial sector . Chen and Xu ( 2005 ) presents a universal integrated finance management information system ( FMIS ) for finance management in construction enterprises . Li et al . ( 201"
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ABSTRACT: The use of enterprise systems has become increasingly popular in the financial service industry. This paper discusses the applications of enterprise systems in the financial sectors and presents an application in gold price forecasting. We carefully examine the impacts of a few most widely assumed factors that have significant impact on the long-term gold price using statistical regression techniques. The analysis on our proposed linear regression mode indicates that the United States ultra scale of M2 money supply has been the most important catalyst for the rising price of gold, and the CRB index upward trend has also been the weighty factor for pushing up the gold price. In addition, the gold price has a low negative correlation with the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and low positive correlations with the US dollar index and the gold ETFs holdings.
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ABSTRACT: We study a two-level supply chain consisting of two competing suppliers and one buyer. Both suppliers experience some level of uncertainty on product quality, which, in turn, leads to additional cost on the buyer's side. We evaluate the benefits of sharing information on suppliers’ product quality with the buyer. Specifically, if a supplier shares its quality inspection result of sampled products on an order basis, how should the buyer use this information to reduce quality uncertainty in the products he received? Will quality information sharing benefit the supplier(s) as well? We develop an analytical model to investigate each member's performance with/without quality information sharing. We also develop equilibrium strategies for the suppliers with quality information sharing. Our results show that the buyer always benefits from quality information sharing. From the supplier's perspective, sharing quality information with the buyer impacts its market share. Moreover, whether to share its quality information depends on the supplier's product quality level and price level.
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