This paper presents the preliminary results of a study on adoption of e-commerce in Australian small and medium enterprises. Tornatsky and Fleischer (1990) model is used, therefore the main group of factors taken into consideration are environmental, organizational and technological. Five case companies located in the area of Brisbane, Queensland have been interviewed. The preliminary results a...

Information technology (IT) that positively affects both quality of care and patient safety currently exists but is not used widely. This study identifies organizational and external factors associated with the adoption of patient safety-related IT (PSIT) in acute care hospitals in Florida. Factors found to be positively correlated with PSIT use included physicians' active involvement in clinic...

Between military contingents involved in multinational operations, there often exist basic organizational and cultural differences, such as the ways in which personnel are treated, the parameters within which people must work, and the very function and structure of the military organization. The management of human resources within each respective organization is often dependent on national nor...

Complex organizations spend significant resources acquiring new processes and technologies . However, there is no assurance that organizational members will embrace these technologies once they are adopted . Organizational leaders have a strong incentive to ensure that new practices persist, and that technological changes become so routine as to be taken for granted : a process called instituti...

A structural-change case study in the systems area of one of the main insurance companies in Mexico is presented. This change is produced as a consequence of a need for improvement of the instrumentation effectiveness of an operational and technological transformation. We describe a) the changes that have taken place in the competitive environment, and in the organization, b) the strategic obje...

This paper is a continuation of the work done by Siriram and Snaddon (2003) where a framework linking technology management, transaction processes and governance structures was proposed. In this paper a new model is formed, which introduces other factors i.e. organizational determinants, competitors, external factors and manufacturing mix processes. These other factors are then included in the ...