The purpose of this study is to investigate organizational factors that contribute to project success. A survey based research is conducted with project managers to study the relationship between current and preferred organizational cultural orientation and project success. The study revealed that clan culture is significantly related to project performance, as well as internal and external bus...

The author employed an ethnographic research approach, combined with a clinical element, to explore the nature and role of culture in the context of organizational change. The study took place at the U.K. operations of a global human resources consulting firm, People Associates. Using Schein’s levels of culture model, the author identified cultural assumptions and values and explored how these ...

Governments all over the world are spending millions in information technology to collect and distribute valuable information to their citizens. Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) is a useful model for managers to assess the likelihood of acceptance of a new technology within an organization. In this paper, we consider organizational culture as an antecedent to the UTAUT...

Management theorists generally define organizational culture as relatively idiosyncratic, organization-related beliefs that are shared among individuals within an organization or part of an organization . . . We describe this as the prevailing focus the field places on organizational microcultures and distinguish it from what we term interorganizational macrocultures, by which we mean the relat...

In the modern world, success of an organization, both in the public and private sectors, is dependent on increased efficiencies and productivity due to investments and acceptance of information technology. This has focused attention on factors that influence individuals’ acceptance and subsequent use of information systems and technology. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (...

This research studies information technology (IT) business value by examining complementarity effects between organizational culture and dynamic IT capability on firm performance. Using the Competing Values Framework, we study the external/internal focus and flexibility/stability dimensions of organizational culture. Here dynamic IT capability refers to the ability to integrate, build, and reco...

Digital natives constitute the majority of new employees entering the marketplace. However, they face an organizational corporate culture that enshrines the vested interests of a very different generation of people, whom they would characterize as digital immigrants or even dinosaurs. This organizational culture has very strict values and assumptions about the way people (should) work, resultin...