OBJECTIVE To develop a conceptual model of a management information system for process-oriented health care organizations. METHODS Qualitative data was collected from two case studies in process-oriented health care settings. The first study addressed the information requirements of health care managers and the second study focused on organizational activities and clinical practice. From thes...

A culture conducive to information security practice is extremely important for organizations since information has to be critical assets in modern enterprises. Thus for understanding and improving the organizational behavior with regard to information security, enterprises may look into organizational culture and examine how it affects the effectiveness of implementing ISM. This study aims ...

INtrODUctION The continuous evolution of theory and practice has modified the existing organizational paradigms and has introduced new models which attempt to explain how information is created, transmitted, used, and managed within various organizations. Many authors have outlined the fact that information no longer represents the most important asset of a firm. In the present competitive cond...

Over 50% of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) fail, mainly because of integration problems. In such integrations, much of the experiential (learning-by-doing) knowledge critical for running the business becomes redundant or is lost. However, we know virtually nothing about what type of mechanisms best facilitate overcoming the gaps in experiential knowledge in these dynamic hybrid organizational ...

A culture conducive to information security practice is extremely important for organizations since information has to be critical assets in modern enterprises. Thus for understanding and improving the organizational behavior with regard to information security, enterprises may look into organizational culture and examine how it affects the effectiveness of implementing ISM. This study aims ...

Over the last decades, companies and organizations have gradually built up an IT environment for supporting their informational and operational needs, very often resulting in numerous islands of application processing and information systems. The fragmentation into system islands now poses a problem, and integration as well as interoperability of disparate systems becomes a primary goal in orde...

Drawing upon the organizational learning perspective, this study focuses on the relationship between external integration and organizational responsiveness, and how such relationship is moderated by three kinds of information technology (IT) capability (i.e. inside-out, outside-in, spanning). The results of 197 firms in China reveal the positive relationship between external integration and org...