The purpose of this paper is to study the interrelationships among new information and communication technologies (ICT), organizational structure and firm performance. A twenty-minute pen and paper questionnaire was distributed to managers and experts of Consultant Engineering Firms in Tehran through a nonprobability, convenience-sampling approach. Reliability and validity of the measurement sc...

This study describes a novel simulation model (OrgSwarm) of the process of strategic adaptation. Strategic adaptation is conceptualized as a process of adaptation (search), on a landscape of strategic possibilities, by a population of profit-seeking organizations. Unfortunately, the characteristics that make organizations coherent and viable such as organizational structure and shared organizat...

This study attempted to investigate the effects of corporate social responsibility on firm performance. It also tried to identify the mediating role of corporate image on the relationship between corporate social responsibility and firm performance. This research collected data on latent constructs through a questionnaire administered survey of managers across a spectrum of industries in Bangla...

The authors argue that a high-organizational error management culture, conceptualized to include norms and common practices in organizations (e.g., communicating about errors, detecting, analyzing, and correcting errors quickly), is pivotal to the reduction of negative and the promotion of positive error consequences. Organizational error management culture was positively related to firm perfor...

The resource-based view of the enterprises generally attributes superior financial performance to organizational resources and capabilities. Firm-specific IT resources are classified as IT infrastructure, human-IT resources, and ITenabled intangibles. This paper empirically examines the association between IT investment and firm performance. Results indicate that firms with high levels of IT in...

In this paper, I examine the impact of partner technological diversity and alliance organizational form on firm innovative performance. Using a sample of 463 R&D alliances in the telecommunications equipment industry, I find that alliances contribute far more to firm innovation when technological diversity is moderate, rather than low or high. Although this relationship holds irrespective of al...

A clear picture of the influential drivers of private family firm performance has proven to be an elusive target. The unique characteristics of private family owned firms necessitate a broader, non-financial approach to reveal firm performance drivers. This research study sought to specify and evaluate the themes that distinguish successful family firms from less successful family firms. In add...

The purpose of this study was to find out the relationship between Organizational Inertia, Customer Orientation, Incremental Innovation and Performance. sample used in were 180 MSME companies spread across East Java. reason MSMEs are is related concept organizational inertia that attached small-scale companies. From it found incremental innovation not a mediating variable links customer orienta...