This paper empirically examines the impact of environmental uncertainty, IT enablers and interorganizational relationships on supply chain flexibility and supply chain integration. Based on the data collected from 196 organizations, multiple regression analyses are used to test the factors impacting supply chain flexibility and supply chain integration respectively. It was found that commitment...

The authors present a two-year experience with an approach aimed at federating applications into a component-based hospital-wide clinical information system. Recognizing the need for better integration, clearer separation of knowledge from applications, as well as the necessity to respect and integrate the diversity of roles in a healthcare network, a strategy was implemented that included the ...

Organizational learning capabilities (OLC) is defined as the organizational and managerial characteristics of factors that encourage learning process or enabling an organization to learn while knowledge performance can be explained as the ability of individual, group and organization to understand what they have learned. This study aims to determine the perceptions and relationships of organiza...

In this paper, we argue that biological vision and electronic image acquisition share common principles despite their vastly different implementations. These shared principles are based on the need to acquire a common set of input stimuli as well as the need to generalize from the acquired images. Two related principles are discussed in detail, namely, multiple parallel image representations an...

IS outsourcing is one of the major issues facing organizations in today’s rapidly changing business environment. It is often presented as an attractive business proposition to improve productivity, reduce costs and increase competitiveness. This study examined the relationship between knowledge sharing and IS outsourcing success based on the social capital theory. It shows the knowledge sharing...

Knowledge transfer has long been a major focus of research in the literature on MNCs in developed countries. However, reverse knowledge transfer in MNCs in developing countries (e.g., China) have received limited attention. By integrating mentorship , social capital and international adjustment theories, this study developed a theoretical framework to demonstrate when and how mentoring improves...

Objective The ‘Essentials of Care’ (EoC) program seeks to develop a shared vision amongst nurses within particular workplace teams. The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of nurses during the process of exploring their values and developing these into a shared vision at both an individual level and as a team. Design A qualitative, focus group design was used to provide an acc...

1. Knowledge Structure: shared upper ontology and domain ontology The fact that people from different backgrounds may have knowledge structures unlike ours is a crucial issue to be addressed in knowledge engineering. In order to become sharable and reusable knowledge, all extracted information must first be correctly situated in a knowledge structure. In addition, the situated information must ...