‘Space of Possibles’? Legitimacy, Industry Maturity, and Organizational Foresight

Foresight in Organizational Relationships

Opal is an EC funded project (IST-2000-28295) designed to establish if and how a computer application may support team building and partnership. The project focuses on the early stages of interaction where rapid and robust assessments must be made of potential partners’ competence, compatibility and confidence in each others’ future performance. One of the aims of the project is to assess wheth...

Managing Organizational Legitimacy in the California Cattle Industry: The Construction and Effectiveness of Verbal Accounts

Emotional Intelligence, Organizational Legitimacy and Charismatic Leadership

Over the past two decades, the subject of emotional intelligence has received ample attention in management and leadership literature. The literature contains a plethora of information about emotional intelligence and its effect on transformational leadership. Much less is written on the relationship between charismatic leadership and emotional intelligence. This paper examines the relationship...

High Maturity Organizational Characteristics

Metrics are beneficial to an organization that supports a product from inception through product retirement and disposal. Quality metrics have a critical role in this type of environment because they span both the development and operations and maintenance phases of the software life cycle, and there is a relationship between the internal quality metrics collected during development and the ext...

High Maturity Organizational Characteristics

In Greek mythology, Procrustes was a rogue smith and bandit who invited travellers to rest in his “perfectly sized bed.” When they accepted, he forcibly bound them to it, then stretched them or cut off various body parts until they “perfectly” fit the bed. Too many organizations have a single model of high maturity to which they try to fit all their projects. Development and acquisition organiz...