This paper applies Fuzzy Composite Programming (FCP), which is a Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) model, to comprehensively assess the organizational effectiveness of knowledge management strategy (KMS) of 15 clinical nursing units in a large metropolitan area hospital. FCP allows the integration of qualitative and quantitative data and provides a better decision model for assessing com...

Many recent router architectures decouple the routing engine from the forwarding engine so that packet forwarding can continue even when the routing software is not active This implies that one can avoid route aps that occur when the routing process goes down provided the forwarding engine remains active during that time period Unfortunately the current de nitions of routing protocols like BGP ...

The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship among multivariate process capability indices, expected losses and design reliability for the nominal-the-better case so the likelihood and consequence resulting from the failure of a multi-characteristic engineering design can be evaluated simultaneously. This new approach provides reliability practitioners a decision making tool in p...

More than three decades after Sen‟s first formulation of the so-called “capability approach”, practitioners have yet to measure a capability set. This raises fundamental questions about the empirical viability of Sen‟s approach. In this paper, we argue that Kantian philosophy may offer valuable insights into how to deal with this problem, as the methodological difficulty which has hampered the ...

The resource-based view of the firm argues the essence of decision making is to determine how firm and supply chain resources can be configured to achieve inimitable advantage and superior performance. However, combining resources found among diverse members of a supply chain requires higher levels of coordination than exist at most companies. Manifest cross-functional and interorganizational c...

This paper presents a Knowledge Management Capability framework based upon an empirical case study conducted at a CMM Level 5 software project organisation. The paper discusses the development of the organisation’s knowledge management (KM) initiative from its initial state, to an organisational state where the KM practices are institutionalised and embedded within the daily activities and work...

This paper presents an empirical study that examines the effects of dynamic IT capability and organizational culture on firm performance. More specifically, this study investigates the main effects of dynamic IT capability on firm performance, the main effects of organizational culture on firm performance, and the interaction effects between the two factors on firm performance. Adopting the Res...

Medium access control (MAC) protocols making use of multipacket reception (MPR) capability achieve better throughput than conventional MAC protocols. When a wireless network operates with MPR capable nodes and non-MPR nodes, the MAC protocols must not only utilise the MPR capability to maximise throughput, but must also enable the co-existence with these two types of nodes. We propose a new MPR...

The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual framework and to explore the possible types of Information System (IS)-capability models especially in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) environment. Based on current literature, capability is considered from the perspectives of individual, organisation, and the skill to utilise IS innovations. The different perspectives ex...

Companies need to acquire the right capabilities from the right source, and the right shore, at the right cost to improve their competitive position. Capability sourcing is an organizing process to gain access to best-in-class capabilities for all activities in a firm’s value chain to ensure long-term competitive advantage. In this paper, capability sourcing modeling is introduced as a techniqu...