This paper examines how a team of software professionals goes about estimating the effort of a software project using a judgment-based, bottom-up estimation approach. By employing a social practice perspective that highlights the distributed character of expertise and conceives actions as mediated by cultural tools, the paper analyzes the interactional process through which the estimation tasks...

with advent of knowledge era, the evolution of organizational dimensions has found new aspects. the effectiveness of knowledge management requires special structural, cultural, technological and human perquisites. the primary purpose of the research is to investigate the appropriate structural factors corresponding with knowledge management approach in organization. the current situation of the...

We examine how key attributes of a business unit’s manufacturing strategy affected its plans to outsource manufacturing resources in the late 1990’s; a time when the outsourcing of production was at the forefront of manufacturing strategy. Drawing upon theory, we test a hierarchical regression model that includes the traditional transaction cost variables as well as operationsbased competitive ...

While knowledge sharing attitude represents a key factor affecting knowledge sharing behavior, the knowledge sharing attitude remains vaguely understood in the literature. Despite that attitude is a multicomponent concept, most past studies of knowledge sharing have focused on knowledge sharing attitude as a single-component construct. Thus, the structure of the knowledge sharing attitude, its ...

During the object-oriented software development process, a variety of models of the system is built. All these models are not independent, but they are related to each other. Elements in one model have trace dependencies to other models; they are semantically overlapping and together represent the system as a whole. It is necessary to have a precise definition of the syntax and semantics of the...

The socio-economic and political dimensions of sustainable development have most often been neglected when developing future scenarios. At best, the social dimension has been dealt with as a framework condition for successful environmental sustainability strategies. The institutional one has been discussed regarding integrating the environment into other policies, but hardly as a dimension of s...

The purpose of this paper is to review and present extent research on evolution of exchange relationships conducted within the fields of industrial marketing, organisational theory and strategic management. The review shows that the current research field is very fragmented and characterised by a lack of cross-referencing between the three main theoretical domains. However, the findings are str...