However, this increase is not associated with enhanced firm performance which may be a consequence of increased liability placed on directors.
The results confirm that firm's IT capabilities are positively and directly associated with the use of e-government services, enhanced firm intelligence generation, and firm profitability.
These gains can manifest in the form of an increased ability to attract potential partners for the exchange of resources (Podolny and Castellucci 1999) and even in terms of enhanced firm profitability (Geletkanycz and Boyd 2011; Rosenstein and Wyatt 1994).
During a conference call with analysts on Wednesday, Thomas Colm Kelleher, Morgan Stanley's chief financial officer, was peppered with questions asking how he could reconcile the firm's enhanced focus on risk management with a series of new trading losses and mark-downs that even reached into the firm's well-regarded commodities area.
It complements the traditional downstream buyer-supplier concept in SSCM by adding a second buyer-supplier relationship led by an upstream focal firm for enhanced sustainability management.
The nightmare, many here agree, would be if, some years down the line, Madrid were to force London to choose between Gibraltar's sovereignty and – for example – enhanced access for UK firms to the EU single market.
Such additions make the cloud more appealing to firms, though they risk annoying customers of cloud computing such as Box, which offer similar services.In spite of falling prices, better security and enhanced offerings, plenty of firms remain wary of committing all their computing needs to another company.
And we're not talking about "pro forma" earnings, those artificially enhanced numbers that tech firms concoct for their press releases.
In exchange for this, Hoenig proposes eliminating a series of regulatory requirements, including stress tests that measure how banks would fare in a crisis, "living wills" banks must file to explain how to unwind them if they fail, and enhanced supervision of large firms.
Twitter buys a UK 'social TV' firm SecondSync for enhanced 'second screen' experience.
He said he remained "a firm supporter of enhanced self-regulation for the press", adding: "My greatest professional satisfaction at the PCC has been in our establishment of a bespoke 24-hour service to help complainants obtain redress, stop harassment and prevent the publication of inaccurate or intrusive material.
