Organizational Governance

Organizational Excellence through Quality Governance

1. Introduction In today's highly competitive global economy, the demand for high quality products manufactured at low costs with shorter cycle times has forced a number of manufacturing industries to consider various new product design, manufacturing, and management strategies. Recently, due to the rapid advances in Information Technology (IT), new paradigms have successively emerged such as e...

Nonprofit Governance, Organizational Purposiveness and Design

IT Governance in Collaborative Organizational Structures

Organizations today engage in various forms of alliances to manage their existing business processes or to diversify into new processes to sustain their competitive positions. Many of today’s alliances use the IT resources as their backbone. The results of these alliances are collaborative organizational structures with little or no ownership stakes between the parties. The emergence of Web 2.0...

Governance of Inter-Organizational Research Cooperation

Companies face increasing challenges in research due to higher costs and risks. The intensifying technology complexity and interdisciplinarity require unique know-how. Therefore, companies need to decide whether research shall be conducted internally or externally with partners. On the other hand, research institutes meet increasing efforts to achieve good financing and to maintain high researc...

Distributed IT Governance: An Organizational-Economic Perspective

Distributed information technology®rD assumes abroaderroleboth within the firm and in interorganizational relationships between firms. With organizations increasinglyseeking relationships with suppliers, custonrrs, and competitors, the impact of the DIT function is a key factor for survival and success in thecompetitivemarketplace (Henderson and Venkatraman 1993). Prior empirical evidence point...