The condition of the market is currently very dynamic, demanding organizations which is use system information to support the achievement of objectives should be necessarily improve the ability of information systems in accordance with the changes. Improved information systems capabilities need to align with resource capabilities in internal environment of the organization, and vice versa. Alig...

Organizational routines and capabilities have become key constructs not only in evolutionary economics, but more recently also in business administration, specifically strategic management. The main purpose of this paper is to develop an integrative routinization model. For this purpose, we discuss organizational routines, capabilities and performance of a firm’s routionization process. We argu...

Virtual teams have made such an impact on many organizational phenomena, particularly knowledge management. Based on socio-technical perspective, this paper suggests that trust and IT are the underlying foundation of knowledge creation in virtual teams. Based on such foundation, this paper proposes a theoretical model of knowledge creation process in virtual teams called Adaptive Social-Externa...

OBJECTIVE To determine the organizational predictors of higher scores on team climate measures as an indicator of the functioning of a family health team (FHT). DESIGN Cross-sectional study using a mailed survey. SETTING Family health teams in Ontario. PARTICIPANTS Twenty-one of 144 consecutively approached FHTs; 628 team members were surveyed. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Scores on the team c...

This paper presents a review of the past and present upper echelons research with the intention of drawing attention to the need for a change of direction from causal descriptive studies to causal explanatory studies. Review of the extant literature indicates that many of the organizational researchers have shown greater interest in studying relationships between top management characteristics ...

Today’s workflow systems assume that each work item is executed by a single worker. From the viewpoint of the system, a worker with the proper qualifications selects a work item, executes the associated work, and reports the result. There is usually no support for teams, i.e., groups of people collaborating by jointly executing work items (e.g., the program committee of a conference, the manage...

This paper examines how the structure of a supply network can affect the inter-organizational knowledge sharing capability, which is expressed by absorptive capacity and shared identity. The supply network structure is analyzed by two dimensions – formality and centrality. Propositions about the relationships between network structure and knowledge sharing capability are suggested at the end. S...

We adapted amodel in organizational theory to determine whether organizational citizenship behaviors (OCBs) of system implementation teams influenced that organization’s integration climate and improved their project management, resulting in successful system implementation. Surveys were elicited from 254 system users in various business organizations that had implemented large-scale IS in the ...

The challenges of globalisation in the 21st century have forced many organisations to consider the adoption of distributed projects for horizontal and vertical cooperation with other companies to sustain competitive advantage. Analysts have predicted that spending on distributed project management solutions will grow from $2 billion in 2002 to $7 billion in 2007 (Collaborative Strategies, 2003)...