According to the Resource Based View of the firm, strategic assets contribute to a firm’s competitive advantage. Strategic assets are characterized as Valuable, Rare, Inimitable, and they involve Organizational Support. These four characteristics have been theorized to result in competitive parity, temporary competitive advantage, or a sustainable competitive advantage for a company. This paper...

Organizational commitment, senior management involvement, and team involvement are typically expected to have a positive impact on the achievement of strategic information systems planning (SISP) objectives. That is, more commitment and involvement should produce greater success. However, they might also have a quadratic impact, specifically an inverted-U relationship such that after they reach...

the aim of this research is to study the relationship between organizational culture and the new measure to evaluate the organization' performance. powerful organizational culture has significantly related with organizational’ performance and it is going to be expected to create value in the organization. but, when the cultural values support organizational adaptation to environmental, the...

The evaluation of Inter-organizational Relationships (IORs) is important in today's businesses for increasing competitiveness and business potential, especially in the Business-to-Business context. However, the evaluation of IORs is often based on success factors, such as trust and flexibility, which are difficult to be measured quantitatively. This motivates us to seek for an approach for eval...

Purpose – The actual benefits of the AMT solidarity to the manufacturing system, classified as systemic, will only be acquired and identified if the current design and organizational structure become compatible with the change being introduced. The purpose of this paper is to present a review for the organizational design development related to AMT assumption and the green manufacturing (GM) in...

Purpose – The actual benefits of the AMT solidarity to the manufacturing system, classified as systemic, will only be acquired and identified if the current design and organizational structure become matchable with the change being introduced. The purpose of this paper is to present a review for the organizational design development related to AMT assumption and the green manufacturing (GM) inv...

This research investigated the possible ownership type effect on the information systems (IS) success factors and IS impact on organizational performance in Kuwaiti organizations. Four IS success factors—IS strategy and resources, end user support, IS sophistication and IS organizational level & user involvement—and three IS organizational impact factors—improving work efficiency, improving dec...

Since all formal eLearning programmes exist within an organisational context, such as universities, corporations or virtual learning institutes, it is clear that the organisation has the power to facilitate or to control development of eLearning courses. By imposing corporate views on course philosophies, learning models and strategies, it can restrict feasible pedagogical models. Through manag...

A business’s information is one of its most important assets, making the protection of information a strategic issue. In this paper, we investigate the tension between information security policies and information security practice through longitudinal case studies at two health care facilities. The management of information security is traditionally informed by a control-based compliance model...