The importance of entrepreneurial competencies and information technology capabilities has increased in the last few decades because of the strategic role played by the entrepreneurs. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the impact of entrepreneur competency and information technology capability on business success. A survey questionnaire was conducted to test the influence of entrepreneur competency and information technology capability. This questionnaire was filled by 403 participants who were recruited through Jordan Chamber of Commerce so as to identify the business owners who had started their companies in the recent years. The findings of the study showed that entrepreneurial competencies have a positive effect on business success and information technology which was used as a mediating role has a positive impact on both entrepreneurial competencies and business success. The findings of this research will be helpful to entrepreneurs and policy makers.

Logistics is an integral part of the supply chain and plays a crucial role in this industry. Therefore, improving logistics performance is the top concern of organizations. This study is conducted to determine factors affecting logistics performance in Vietnam. The authors collected data from 162 Vietnamese logistics enterprises. Applying the structural equation modeling (SEM), the research has demonstrated that logistics efficiency positively correlates with e-logistics, information technology capability, information sharing, and service staff quality. Furthermore, e-logistics have the strongest impact and play the most important role in logistics performance.

This study examined the impact of activity-based Costing ABC and information technology IT on decision-making and competitive advantage in Sudanese industrial projects. The experimental results of this study were based on a questionnaire administered to accountants and administrators in 61 industrial projects in Sudan, and the data were analyzed using partial least squares. The study's results indicate that using activity-based costing and information technology methods in determining costs, evaluating company profits, and approximating product costs positively affects managerial decisions while improving the competitive advantage of industrial projects. The use of activity-based Costing and information technology affects decision-making and competitive advantage in industrial projects in Sudan. The study recommended that continuous training helps obtain the benefits of using activity-based Costing and information technology in industrial projects. The results show that the result gained from using activity-based Costing and information technology in determining costs, decision-making, and expanding competitive advantage has been affected by attending training programs, gradually, based on learning the capabilities of the activity-based costing system and the information technology system.

To meet the needs of innovation, to improve the competitiveness of information technology based on the professional abilities and resources, internal business is not enough, but there is a need to seek external support through business support services such as market search support, trade promotion, legal advice, human resource training, support supply and technology transfer support. There are several services to support businesses and to increase efficiency when they are developed in both quantity and scale of service provision and quality, as well as service structure. So how do we analyze the factors that affect information technology support services in Vietnam? Answering this question helps to suggest solutions and policies to promote the development of the business support service sector and contributes to the rapid development of information technology enterprises in Vietnam. This paper uses information from a survey data of 315 Vietnamese information technology (IT) of small and medium sized enterprises and 460 support service providers in 2018. Data are processed through STATA software version 14.0, and SPSS 20.0 software. The results indicate the Vietnamese business units need to improve to develop the information technology service market, significantly.

Knowledge Management (KM) is the process of system identification, acquisition and transfer of information and knowledge that people can use to create for perfect competition. KM is considered as an intellectual property of opinions in favour of social orientation and it is created in organizations through social relationships. The definition of KM highlights that it could be considered as closely related to the theory and practice, and is a highly interdisciplinary field of multi-disciplinary. The purpose of this paper is associated with the knowledge management in general and uses survey in Vietnam companies and universities to analysis the role of knowledge management for business development. The authors collected data from 300 companies and universities in Hanoi, Danang, Ho ChiMinh and Can Tho cities. The descriptive statistics, Cronbach Alpha test, Exploratory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling methods were used in this paper. The results indicate that KM had a positive impact on the efficiency of the business organizations. The study also shows that there was a big difference on the effect of KM on organizational effectiveness in terms of SMEs and large enterprises.

This study aims to examine the indirect impact of supply chain management (SCM) in its three dimensions (relationship with suppliers, relationship with intermediaries and distributors, relationship with customers) on the competitive advantage (CA) in its five dimensions (Cost, Quality, Delivery Time, flexibility, and Creativity commitment) with the presence of information technology (IT) as a mediator. Furthermore, 250 questionnaires were distributed in Halawani Industrial Company. The questionnaires analyzed were 226. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to test the hypotheses. The results of the partial analysis show that both relationships with the suppliers and customers contributed to the impact on IT, while the relationship with intermediaries and distributors did not contribute to the impact, but it was supportive of SCM to indirectly influence CA. The most important result of the study was the necessity to evaluate the fundamental competencies; periodically then continuously in order to alter the imperative assets which are the pillars of core competencies including the requirements and conditions regarding strategic thinking and leadership competencies. Also, the study provides an inventory of knowledge about the reality of SCM and its role in achieving CA through IT, which contributes to enriching the library in overall and Jordanian in specific in this subject.