THE MODERATING ROLE OF IT AUDITING ON INTEGRATED PHARMACEUTICAL LOGISTICS SYSTEM (IPLS), USER SATISFACTION AND LOGISTICS PERFORMANCE OF ETHIOPIAN HOSPITALS

Health is one of the crucial elements for the development of any country and the well being as well as productivity of its citizens. Controlling and auditing the risk that may come from deploying IT for health provision is a key issue in society. This study will assess the moderating role of IT auditing on the relationship among IPLS, user satisfaction and logistics performance of health commodities in Ethiopian hospitals. Data will be collected from respondents in selected Public and Private Hospitals throughout the country using questionnaires by adopting multi stage simple sampling process(Regions, Zones, and Woredas are used to trace hospitals). The study will employ explanatory research design with quantitative approach. The data collected will be analyzed using correlation and regression analyses to investigate the effect of the independent and moderating variables on the dependent variables. The study will have significant contributions for academics, practice, policy and research

Exploring the nexus of green information technology capital, environmental corporate social responsibility, environmental performance and the business competitiveness of Thai sports industry firms

The prime objective of the current study is exploring the nexus of green information technology capital, environmental corporate social responsibility, environmental performance and the business competitiveness of Thai sports industry firms. The final sample of the study comprises of 434 respondents. Moreover, the study explains the way in which the competitiveness of business and environmental performance is increased through green information technology capital and environmental corporate and social responsibility. The SEM-PLS is used to analyses the data. The previous research studies did not incorporate the environmental performance, green issues of enterprise management, and competitiveness of business with reference to green IT capital. Therefore, to increase the investment on green IT capital by environmental corporate and social responsibility has been provided in this study. This ultimately improves the competitiveness of business and environmental performance. Moreover, a research framework has been developed for the competitiveness of business and environmental performance and for defining their association with the green IT capital and ECSR. It is found that the investment in structural capital support the organization in meeting the demand of market and this makes them bias towards investment in the relational and structural capital

Software Engineering Methods for the Internet of Things: A Comparative Review

Accessing different physical objects at any time from anywhere through wireless network heavily impacts the living style of societies worldwide nowadays. Thus, the Internet of Things has now become a hot emerging paradigm in computing environments. Issues like interoperability, software reusability, and platform independence of those physical objects are considered the main current challenges. This raises the need for appropriate software engineering approaches to develop effective and efficient IoT applications software. This paper studies the state of the art of design and development methodologies for IoT software. The aim is to study how proposed approaches have been solved issues of interoperability, reusability, and independence of the platform. A comparative study is presented for the different software engineering methods used for the Internet of Things. Finally, the key research gaps and open issues are highlighted as future directions

Information Communication Technology and Global Logistic Performance

Various types of technologies have been referenced widely in research on international business, including information technology (IT) and information communication technology (ICT). Studies so far have focused on the relationship between IT factors and business benefits. However, relatively little attention has been paid to the effect of ICT on countries’ logistic performances. To fill this gap, we addressed the research question, “What is the impact of ICT on global logistic performance?” In this paper, we examined the influence of ICT penetration on countries’ logistic performance using Logistic Performance Index from the World Bank