There is scant evidence that children younger than 7 years show a memory advantage for distinct information, a memory phenomenon termed the isolation effect (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2001, Vol. 27, pp. 1359-1366). We investigated whether 4-, 5-, and 6-year-olds' developing organizational processing and executive function contributed to the isolation e...

Institutional settings in emerging markets pose challenges for multinational corporations (MNCs). We argue that information technology (IT) can be used to develop strategic flexibilities to complement organizational capabilities in emerging markets. We explore how MNCs and local firms compare in leveraging their IT enabled strategic flexibilities and organizational capabilities to improve perfo...

This paper proposes an approach to attack the multi-linked negotiation in a complex organizational context. The motivational qualities (MQ) framework developed earlier, provides the agent with the capability to reason about different objective goals hence the agent can evaluate a negotiation issue via its organizational objectives. The partial order schedule is exploited as a reasoning tool for...

To gain competitive advantage, firms involve suppliers in New Product Development (NPD). However, uncertainty affects selection of suppliers and associated technologies, and selection outcomes in terms of commitment to one supplier or maintaining flexibility. We report on a case study of collaborative NPD with the aim to develop an energy storage unit. The case involved selection of both techno...

Nowadays, utilizing EA by enterprises with medium and long term goals causes improvement in their productivity and competitiveness. With respect to varied changes in enterprise's business activities and attitudes, flexibility in information systems of EA is a crucial factor. Agent's capacities in implementation of complex systems goal convince huge enterprises to use agent oriented architecture...

the aim of present research is to determine and prioritize criteria and scales ofevaluating cohesive training systems. present paper attempts to provide a paradigm forbetter devising of universities' cohesive training systems by identifying such scales. itspopulation includes elite training experts in the colleges and institutes affiliated touniversity of tehran. it attempts to study domes...

We developed a multidimensional definition of IT infrastructure (ITI) and applied it in exploring the perceived strategic payoffs of ITI-enabled flexibility. We began by developing a typology of theoretical approaches that can be used to organize the literature and then developed amultidimensional model by conceptualizing how flexibility can be enabled through technical, human, and process elem...

This study explores the underlying mechanisms of achieving sustainable digital innovation in context manufacturing companies. Building on perspective organizational unlearning, we propose that unlearning could disrupt current routines and positively relate to sustainability innovation, features which are self-referential improvement iterative scalability. conducted a questionnaire survey 274 Ch...

Competitive pressures are forcing organizations to be agile and flexible. Response to changing environmental conditions is an important factor in determining corporate performance. Organizational flexibility is in turn closely related to the management of information systems. Rexibility of information systems needs to be actively managed. Information systems in organizations have evolved from b...

learning rapidly and competently has become a pre-eminent strategy for improving organizational performance in the new knowledge era. improving dynamic learning capability is an exclusive strategy for corporate success in construction industry. thus engineering design firms should implement ol to accomplish a state of readiness for change and develop a competence to respond and identify future ...