The purpose of this paper is to discuss the conditions under which capability, transaction and scale considerations interact in determining organizational boundaries. It is argued that this interaction contributes to explaining the individual firm’s performance and growth whenever cognitive competence is limited, radical uncertainty is present, some inputs and processes are indivisible and comp...

payoffs from information technology (it) continue to generate interest and debate both among academicians and practitioners. these have led the decision makers to confusion about it effect on firms` financial performance; they don’t know either high or low effect is because of internal or external factors of organizational environment. the mechanism for decreasing the risks is to identify the c...

In this paper we develop a new view of organizations as disequilibrium systems. To introduce our ideas and some terminology we use a simple economic model of a firm. We demonstrate that the decisions made by the management might cause a regular or chaotic evolution of the firm, and that the latter gives inferior results in terms of certain performance measures. We also show that the management ...

This paper examines the infusion of e-procurement applications along two dimensions of usage – intensity and organizational acceptance – and tests the relationship between use and procurement performance. Drawing upon the resource-based view of the firm, this paper tests the relationship between select organizational resources and e-procurement infusion in the context of procurement of indirect...

A high quality customer database is a cornerstone of successful interactive marketing strategies and tactics. Based on the notion that customer data quality is not only a technical but also an organizational problem, this study develops and tests an organizational learning framework of the relationship between organizational processes, customer data quality and firm performance. The findings sh...

Purpose This study aims to investigate how dynamic tensions between performance measurement system (PMS) uses enable organizations achieve both exploitation and exploration enhance firm performance. Design/methodology/approach The authors collected survey data on 153 Italian companies. Scales for each construct were validated through an exploratory factor analysis. Data cross-validated by using...

the present study has been done with the aim of exploring the effects of organizational dynamic capabilities on competitive advantage in consulting firms. to do so, a grounded theory method was used which was suitable regarding the explorative nature of the research. seventeen consulting firms were the research sample. the ceos and members of board of directors of these firms were interviewed. ...

A working paper in the INSEAD Working Paper Series is intended as a means whereby a faculty researcher's thoughts and findings may be communicated to interested readers. The paper should be considered preliminary in nature and may require revision. ABSTRACT We examine the performance implications of selecting alternate modes of governance in inter-organizational alliance relationships. While ma...

The Resource-Based View (RBV) has become one of the most popular ways to examine the impact of IT on firm performance. An increasing number of researchers are using the theoretical underpinning of the RBV to ground their research in investigating this relationship. This paper follows in this tradition by developing multidimensional measures for two dimensions of IT capability, inside-out IT cap...