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...

Being aware of the importance of classifiers to be comprehensible when using machine learning to solve real world problems, bagging needs a way to be explained. This work compares Consolidated Tree’s Construction (CTC) algorithm with the Combined Multiple Models (CMM) method proposed by Domingos when used to extract explanation of the classification made by bagging. The comparison has been done...

Knowledge sharing and absorption are required to achieve and sustain competitive advantage. Firms’ dynamic capabilities assist in mediating the effects of knowledge sharing and absorption on organizational innovation performance. Therefore, this study proposed a conceptual model to investigate the relationships among knowledge sharing capability, absorptive capability, dynamic capability, and o...

Introduction The origins of dynamic capabilities have been neglected. Questions about the balance between the tacit and inimitable elements of capability and the role of intentionality require further exploration. Undoubtedly some of these questions remain open because of This is compounded by the finding of Becker (2001) that there is very little integration of empirical findings back into the...

Maturity level modeling has been a well-established and important stream of IS research. Maturity models have played a significant role in guiding organizational process improvements in many areas. It is therefore surprising that maturity model design and development methodologies have not yet been scrutinized from cross-cultural and international perspectives. In this research, we have prescri...

Li Guan: Multi-view Dynamic Scene Modeling. (Under the direction of Marc Pollefeys.) Modeling dynamic scenes/events from multiple fixed-location vision sensors, such as video camcorders, infrared cameras, Time-of-Flight sensors etc, is of broad interest in computer vision, with many applications including 3D TV, virtual reality, medical surgery, markerless motion capture, video games, and secur...

In a data warehousing environment, aggregate views are often materialized in order to speed up aggregate queries of online analytical processing (OLAP). Due to the increasing size of data warehouses, it is often infeasible to materialize all views. View selection, the task of selecting a subset of views to materialize based on updates and expectations of the query load, is an important and chal...

Information systems researchers have drawn on the resource-based view (RBV) and dynamic capabilities theory to offer a sharper theoretical lens to study the impact of information technology (IT) enabled capabilities on organizational performance. In this study, we propose a new conceptualization of IT-enabled production capability, based on the ability of a manufacturing plant to use its mix of...

Information systems researchers have drawn on the resource-based view (RBV) and dynamic capabilities theory to offer a sharper theoretical lens to study the impact of information technology (IT) enabled capabilities on organizational performance. In this study, we propose a new conceptualization of IT-enabled production capability, based on the ability of a manufacturing plant to use its mix of...

This paper investigates the mechanisms through which organizations develop capabilities in a dynamic sense (Teece, Pisano & Shuen, 1997) and reflects upon the role of (1) experience accumulation, (2) knowledge articulation and (3) knowledge codification processes in creating and constantly reshaping organizational routines. The argument is made that dynamic capabilities originate from the co-ev...