This study seeks to understand the longitudinal effects of external pressures on the assimilation of IT innovations in organizations, making the distinction between pressures from organizations' exchange partners and pressures from the institutional environment. Analyzing 11-year survey data on the adoption and usage of enterprise resource planning (ERP) in Fortune 1000 companies, I have found ...

abstract background: technical, human, operational and organizational factors have been influencing the sequence of occupational accidents. among them, organizational factors play a major role in causing occupational accidents. the aim of this research was to understand the iranian safety experts’ experiences and perception of organizational factors. methods: this qualitative study was conducte...

External IT consultants are specialists who bring in skills that may be lacking within a firm. However, a lack of firm specific knowledge, low legitimacy, and a host of other factors may limit the effectiveness of IT consultants. From a resource-based perspective, consultants can represent a rich source of short term, valuable capabilities. These capabilities, however, may be at odds with exiti...

Introduction Researchers in the fields of implementation and improvement science have increasingly recognized the importance of context in understanding implementation processes and outcomes (Damschroder et al, 2009; Taylor et al, 2011; Kaplan et al, 2012). To date much of the attention in conceptualizing and measuring contextual factors has targeted internal context, including features of the ...

Nowadays, with increasing service industries, service marketing and service quality have become an important challenge to organizations. The attempts of organizations in this situation are witnesses to this matter. In the past years, the organizations tried to reach service quality appropriation and satisfaction of self-external customers by concepts and approaches of external marketing. One of...

This paper investigates the effects of organizational form on problemistic search. We contrast how Indian firms affiliated to business groups and unaffiliated firms evaluate performance and react by adjusting their internal technology search and external market search. We propose that, compared with unaffiliated firms, business group firms are more externally oriented in setting aspiration leve...

We gather detailed data on organizational practices and IT use at 253 firms to examine the hypothesis that external focus – the ability of a firm to detect and therefore respond to changes in its external operating environment – increases returns to information technology, especially when combined with decentralized decision-making. First, using survey-based measures, we find that external focu...

The number of adult learners who participate in online learning has rapidly grown in the last two decades due to online learning’s many advantages. In spite of the growth, the high dropout rate in online learning has been of concern to many higher education institutions and organizations. The purpose of this study was to determine whether persistent learners and dropouts are different in indivi...

We gather detailed data on organizational practices and IT use at 253 firms to examine the hypothesis that external focus – the ability of a firm to detect and therefore respond to changes in its external operating environment – increases returns to information technology, especially when combined with decentralized decision-making. First, using survey-based measures, we find that external focu...

in general, productivity is gaining maximum profit from manpower, equipments, time, place, and son on in order to enhance social welfare. without doubt, promoting productivity at individual, group, and organizational levels depends on different factors. this research is about to find a model to recognize influencing factors on workers’ productivity in the mst group, and to show relationships am...