background: agility means ability to respond and react quickly and successfully to environmental changes. agility is an important factor for hospital effectiveness. agility in a hospital indicates the hospital's responsiveness when faced with internal and external changes. if hospitals are designed to be agile, they should have the ability to compete with other hospitals and provide appropriate...

   The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of technology management elements on organizational agility using the structural equation technique. The research method was descriptive with the use of survey and the statistical population of the study consisted of all 500 managers and employees of Refah chain stores in the city of Tehran. The sample was selected through cluster <...

In this empirical paper, we investigate IT-enabled innovation and improvisation in SMEs that operate in turbulent market environments. Using the theoretical lens of the resource-based view of the firm and dynamic capabilities, we study IT resources, IT capabilities, and organizational agility in such SMEs. We conducted an online survey of Canadian SMEs and use an emerging analysis technique cal...

Much of the research in the area of knowledge management has been at the individual level. Knowledge management literature, on the other hand, argues for the building up of knowledge processing capacity at an organizational level to enhance organization performance. This study is an effort to address this research gap. It looks at the ability of the organizations to collect knowledge at subunit...

Nowadays, Military products of superpowers countries have a high level of diversity, delivery speed, and appropriative operational functionality. Therefore, Production of varied, high quality and high speed delivery military products, is essential for enhance Iran's defensive deterrence power. Defense industries supply chain agility is an answer to how to produce military products with these f...

Agile methods have impacted on software development by providing several changes on how software is developed. Agile values, principles and practices foster intra-team knowledge sharing. However, they do not inform how to cope with that across organizational levels. This study seeks to understand inter-team knowledge sharing effectiveness in agile software development organizations that employ ...

The amount of data has exploded over the last ten years. Data is captured and shared from personal devices, transactional operations, sensors, social media and other sources. Firms should, thus, be able to explore the new opportunities and rapidly seize them by developing the corresponding capabilities. In our work, we focus on two emerging dynamic capabilities: Absorptive capacity and organiza...

Article history: Received 21 June 2013 Received in revised form 25 August 2014 Accepted 28 August 2014 Available online 18 September 2014 This paper explores the relationship between corporate foresight and the capability of the organization to respond successfully to external changes (i.e., strategic agility).More generally, we investigate the value that firms, facing growing uncertainty becau...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, beş yıldızlı otel işletmelerinde çalışan işgörenlerin örgütsel DNA algılarının çeviklik düzeyleri üzerindeki etkisinin belirlenmesidir. İstanbul ve Antalya’daki işgörenleri araştırmanın evrenini oluşturmaktadır. Araştırma evreninin tamamına ulaşılmasının zaman maliyet gibi sınırlılıklardan dolayı mümkün olmadığından, araştırma evreni üzerinden tabakalı örnekleme yöntemi ile...