Although there is increasing emphasis on and investment in healthcare information technology (HIT) it is important to determine why actual adoption and usage rates are below expectations. This research builds on Fichman and Kemerer’s (1997) work by examining the relationship between organizational learning capacity and assimilation of a complex organizational information technology. It also exp...

In this paper I discuss a recent theory on functions called Organizational Account. This theory seeks to provide a new de ntion of function that overcomes the distinction between etiological and dispositional accounts and that could be used in biology as well as in technology. I present a de niton of function that I think captures the intuitions of Organizational Accounts and consider several o...

Agile enterprises with different organizational structures manifest different organizational behaviors when responding to environmental changes. In this paper, we use a computational model to examine organizational adaptation on four dimensions: Agility, Robustness, Resilience, and Survivability. We analyze the dynamics of organizational adaptation by a simulation study on the interaction betwe...

knowledge management is influenced by many variables such as organizational structure, leadership style, organizational culture, information technology etc. we can spot organizational structure and climate as a framework and infrastructure can be considered in implementing successful knowledge management. previous studies examined these variables in the implementation of knowledge management. i...

service oriented architecture (soa) technology enables composition of large and complex computational units out of the available atomic services. implementation of soa brings about challenges which include service discovery, service interaction, service composition, robustness, quality of service, security, etc. these challenges are mainly due to the dynamic nature of soa. soamay often need to ...