In the process of a research project to evaluate accident models, I looked in detail at a variety of spacecraft and aircraft accidents that in some way involved software [8]. The accidents studied all demonstrated the usual cultural, organizational, and communications problems such as complacency, diffusion of or lack of responsibility and authority for safety, low-level status and inappropriat...

In a new era, the organizational climate has built as the norms, values, beliefs, traditions, and ceremonies where people work together to solve problems and face challenges. This study was to determine whether there is a relationship between each of the three dimensions of organizational climate (supervisory support, autonomy, and goal direction) and Organizational Citizenship Behavior-Individ...

The concept of organizational capability has been developed basically in the field of strategic management. Organizational capabilities are identified as one major source for the generation and development of sustainable competitive advantage). Recently the issue of changeability and flexibility of organizational capabilities is coming to the fore. Referring to the observation that markets and ...

Critical success and failure factors of software projects were extensively studied. However, software project risk management has rarely researched organizational risks even though most problems occur when the social aspects are not addressed. By employing the resistance to change theory, our paper develops an organizational risk diagnosing (ORD) framework in order to show how can organizationa...

We address some problems of network aggregation that are central to organizational studies. We show that concepts of network equivalence (including generalizations and special cases of structural equivalence) are relevant to the modeling of the aggregation of social categories in cross-classification tables portraying relations within an organizational field (analogous to onemode networks). We ...

Managing the processes of autonomous business organizations while they collaborate is a key requirement in order to guarantee that every business partner sees benefits of the collaboration. Thanks to the advances in the middleware IT technologies, some of the most important limitations of cross-organizational collaborations have been resolved. Yet, there are still a number of problems related t...

Organizational impact on information systems plays an important role for tourism managers’ attention towards improving tourism service quality. As tourism service quality depends on information systems, which is important to determine what aspects of organizational impact that are critical to the managers of tourism enterprises to devise effective tourism service quality improvement strategies....

To examine factors influencing readiness for healthcare organizational change, 654 randomly selected hospital staff completed questionnaires measuring the logistical and occupational risks of change, ability to cope with change and to solve jobrelated problems, social support, measures of Karasek's (1979) active vs. passive job construct (job demand x decision latitude) and readiness for organi...

Organizational learning is a nebulous concept which needs to be articulated in order to be of concrete use. In this paper we will recapitulate and criticise some of the prevailing ideas concerning organizational learning. An alternative definition is suggested which is tightly coupled to the purpose and goals of the organization, which for Ericsson is to develop and sell telecommunication syste...