Despite evidence of a positive relationship between information technology (IT) investments and firm performance, results still vary across firms and performance measures. We explore two organizational explanations for this variation: differences in firms’ IT investment allocations and their IT capabilities. We develop a theoretical model of IT resources, defined as the combination of specific ...

Implementing knowledge management capability (KMC) effectively is becoming an important strategic issue for organizational success. However, our understanding about the underlying mechanism of KMC on firm performance is still limited. Based on the dynamic capabilities perspective, this study tries to explore how KMC (i.e., exploration KMC and exploitation KMC) affects firm performance through t...

Weuse laboratory experiments to explore merger failure due to conflicting organizational cultures. We introduce a laboratory paradigm for studying organizational culture that captures several key elements of the phenomenon. In our experiments, we allow subjects in “firms” to develop a culture, and then merge two firms. As expected, performance decreases following the merging of two laboratory f...

Complementary investment in information technology (IT) and organizational work practices enable a firm to respond strategically to competitive challenges. Specific combinations of these investments, as called for in organizational programs, are implemented in a coordinated manner to bring about a change more consistent with the external environment, resulting in improved firm performance. Whil...

A substantive body of research has sought to understand the adoption, implementation, and use of information systems. In contrast, the literature offers only limited insight into phenomena related to the end of the information systems lifecycle including decisions to discontinue the use of these systems. Such decisions can have a dramatic impact on firm performance and on measures of system suc...

present research is primarily concerned with study of the relationships between the variables knowledge management, organizational learning, and organizational performance in the shabestar branch of islamic azad university. the required data, based on the research model, was gathered through distribution of a questionnaire among the employees of this university. to examine the relationships bet...

The resource-based theory of the firm attributes superior firm performance to organizational resources that are valuable, rare, irreplaceable, and most readily reproduced. Aligned with this theory, the dissertation examines the widely expressed notion that knowledge management (KM) competencies form a critical organizational resource that contributes to firm performance. Specifically, this diss...