Transaction Capability Research Articles

Understanding the Manufacturing Location Decision: The Case for the Transaction Cost and Capability Perspectives

This article highlights the value of employing the resource‐based view (RBV) and transaction cost economics (TCE) to understand the manufacturing location decision. The RBV can assist with analyzing manufacturing capabilities, which can link the decision with performance and the competitive position of the organization. TCE provides a powerful theoretical lens to augment this analysis. Understanding transaction costs allows an organization to adopt a relationship strategy, which reduces the risks of outsourcing while at the same time leverages the specialist capabilities of suppliers. Moreover, further research is required to enhance our understanding of how the variables from the RBV and TCE interact in sourcing decisions. In particular, it is argued that employing these theories in the manufacturing location decision would contribute to the academic debate on the complementary and contradictory prescriptions of TCE and the RBV in outsourcing decision‐making contexts.

Offshoring, Reshoring and the Manufacturing Location Decision

Offshoring, Reshoring and the Manufacturing Location Decision

Innovation Capability: From Technology Development to Transaction Capability

The firm’s role, besides producing goods and services, is to promote technological change and innovation. While academic research on technological capabilities has led to a better understanding of the process of technical change itself, there is no consensus on the ultimate definition of innovation capability. The purpose of this paper is to present a framework for innovation capability. This is formed by four key capabilities (technology development, operations, management and transaction) that enable firms to reach Schumpeterian profits. Given that the study is characterized as a theoretical paper, methodologically is supported on an extensive literature review. Our main findings can be summed up in three aspects: (1) every firm has all four capabilities; none of them are null; (2) to be innovative, at least one of the firm’s capabilities must be predominant; (3) any firm, when established, is primarily technological or transactional, in a second stage, operational or managerial.

인터넷 쇼핑몰의 속성이 패션 소비자의 구매만족도, 재구매의도 및 구전의도에 미치는 영향

This study investigates the effects of internet shopping malls attributes on purchase satisfaction, repurchase intention, and word of mouth intention of fashion consumers. Data were collected from 400 consumers who purchased fashion products through internet shopping malls for the last 3 months. The survey was conducted from August 2010 to September 2010. A factor analysis identified 7 dimensions of internet shopping mall attributes: (1) interactivity, (2) website appearance, (3) sales promotion, (4) trust, (5) transaction capability, (6) fashion products variety, and (7) information offerings. The results show that all the dimensions of the internet shopping mall attributes affect purchase satisfaction, repurchase intention, and word of mouth intention. In addition, there were significant differences in the perceived attributes among three different types of internet shopping malls; comprehensive mall, fashion specialty malls, and online market-places (open-markets). While, there was no significant impact on the purchase satisfaction, repurchase intention, and word of mouth intention by the e-tailer types.

Barriers to Efficient Virtual Business Transactions

With the availability of business transaction capability within some virtual worlds, enterprising individuals and teams have established businesses that operate entirely within the realm of virtual reality. These wholly-virtual business operations act much like real-life businesses; they must develop and manufacture products, advertise, sell and fulfill deliveries. A complete lifecycle of business events takes place within the micro-economy of the virtual world.
 
 The virtual business owner is presented with a seemingly complete set of tools to perform all actions required by each stage of the business lifecycle, However, over the past several years, virtual business owners have begun to discover limitations and missing elements in these business transaction protocols. This paper will identify the more notable limitations facing today’s virtual business owners.

Apparel retailers: website quality dimensions and satisfaction

Online retailers would benefit from studies that examine which website attributes can be manipulated to favorably affect consumer satisfaction. The purposes of the study were (1) to examine the dimensionality of website quality for apparel retailers and (2) to determine which dimensions of website quality were significant predictors of shopper satisfaction. Data were collected from 273 female online apparel shoppers. Loiacono's WebQual™ instrument was used to measure shopper perceptions of websites. Factor analysis identified six dimensions of website quality: (1) web appearance, (2) entertainment, (3) informational fit-to-task, (4) transaction capability, (5) response time, and (6) trust. Only three dimensions, informational fit-to-task, transaction capability, and response time, were significant predictors of shopper satisfaction.

Experiences with developing a computer security information assurance curriculum

Attacks on the computing infrastructure have gained prominence as the world harnessed the business transaction capability of the Internet in the last few years. Denial of service attacks and viruse...

Design, implementation and performance study of reliable transactions in X.500 directory service

Replication of Directory information improves system performance and availability. This is provided in 1993 Standard through a shadowing mechanism. However, the standard specifies only weak consistency requirement. This is not satisfactory as some applications may require strong consistency with atomic (all-or-none) updates. This article describes the effort to incorporate the transaction function into the Directory in order to support the strong consistency requirement. An object-oriented approach is used to design and implement the system. Appropriate object models for the DUA and the DSA are developed to include the transaction capability. The atomic update is ensured by the transaction manager, which controls and coordinates the distributed transaction and the CCR ASE, which tracks and transfers the atomic transaction messages on single transaction branch. This is assisted by a resource manager consisting of a local database with appropriate APIs and the underlying database manager which, ensures the ACID properties of the atomic updates. Performance evaluation of the system implemented indicates a transaction overhead of 31% for commit case and 14% for rollback case. The bottleneck areas include the local database access, the network processing overhead and the size of replicas. The overheads can be reduced by employing advanced hardware and software. Thus, the usefulness of transaction capability outweighs the overhead consideration.

A Model for the Classification of Information Kiosks in Singapore

The information kiosks of the past were dedicated machines, huge, costly, and designed mainly for the purpose of information retrieval and expensive to update. Today’s information kiosk, however, uses a multimedia PC which is housed in a close-fitting casing. Placed in public areas or exhibitions, interactive kiosks are increasingly being used to disseminate, access, process and collect information and/or perform transaction (financial or non-financial). This paper examined the various types of information kiosks implementation in Singapore. A model in a form of a matrix is designed to map the various types of information kiosks. This matrix has 4 sectors with two dimensions, i.e. information dissemination (low versus high) and transaction (low versus high). Low information dissemination kiosk means that the information provided requires infrequent changes or updates and it has structured query, usually guided by screen buttons. High information dissemination kiosk requires frequent changes to the information provided to users and users can perform semi-structured query, usually via a keyboard. Low transactional capability kiosk performs no transaction at all or it just accepts money during the transaction, e.g. car park kiosk. High transaction capability kiosks on the other hand enable users to access and update on-line databases on top of their transaction which may require personal identification. The four sectors are categorized as Type 1, Type 2, Type 3 and Type 4 kiosk. Type 1 refers to Low transaction/Low information kiosk, Type 2 refers to High Transaction kiosk, Type 3 refers to Pure Information Dissemination kiosk and Type 4 refers to High Transaction/High Information kiosk. In order for organizations to understand how kiosk technology can be employed in their industries to achieve corporate goals, Cash and McFarlan’s two-dimensional table is adapted as a framework. This framework is useful because it allows the CEO to know exactly where the resources (IT expenditures) are allocated with the most growth potential. As a result, we adapted the framework for our analysis. Lastly, the paper discusses on a typical kiosk configuration and some guidelines are recommended for consideration during kiosks implementation. Future research areas on kiosks implementation are also highlighted in the concluding remarks.

Analysis of the link error monitoring protocols in the common channel signaling network

Motivated by the excessive link status changes observed in some field operations of the common channel signaling (CCS) network, the authors provide a detailed analysis of the signaling link error monitoring algorithms in the Signaling System No. 7 (SS7) protocol. These algorithms determine when to fail a link due to excessive error rates and when to put a failed link back into service. The analysis shows that, under current SS7 specifications of the error monitoring algorithms, the probability of a signaling link oscillating in and out of service could be high, depending on the traffic load, signal unit size, and the statistical nature of errors (bursty or random). The link oscillation phenomenon could become worse as longer Transaction Capability Application Part (TCAP) messages for transaction-based services (e.g., 800 Service) are carried in the CCS networks. While the risk to the existing network may not be high due to the light loads carried at present, there is still a need to study the error monitoring issues thoroughly.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>