Research on IT-based innovations is often limited to technological characteristics or to organizational level analyses. By expanding analysis dimensions, we can gain complementary insights and enlarge the boundaries of theories on IT-based innovations. This study adopts Van de Ven’s social-system perspective to examine a specific telehealth innovation. The analysis is carried out at two levels ...

Start-up organizations are disrupting previously stable industries with new business models. Existing organizations in these environments need to strategically improvise, that is develop the ability to rapidly seize opportunities, and without prior planning, creatively reconfigure their operational capabilities. As a dynamic capability, strategic improvisation (SI) requires three factors: real-...

the purpose of this research was identifying factors affecting the development of processing and complementary industries of date palm in khouzestan province. the method of research was causal comparative. the population of this research was managers in processing and complementary industries of date palm products of khouzestan province (n=100). the return rate was 94% (n=94). by census method...

The goal of this dissertation is to propose a theory of embeddedness and test it in the context of inter-organizational relationships. The theory argues that the structure of organizational relationships is determined by the setting in which they exist, and that this setting may be defined in terms of four inter-related dimensions: cognitive, cultural, structural and political. The study will i...

Organizational learning is essential during eGovernment implementation to leverage the benefits of such efforts. However, there is a lack of holistic understanding of organizational learning in IT-related change in public organizations. Motivated by such concerns, we construct a structurational framework that inter-relates elements pertinent to IT-related change from four theoretical perspectiv...