The papers in this minitrack focus around the strategic uses of convergent technologies that clearly dictate the need for organizational readiness. e-Business models, strategic partnership alliances, technology-focused solutions, staffing, and methodologies are all part of an evolving organizational model needed to capitalize on fast moving information technologies. Emerging technologies are ro...

BACKGROUND Change management experts have emphasized the importance of establishing organizational readiness for change and recommended various strategies for creating it. Although the advice seems reasonable, the scientific basis for it is limited. Unlike individual readiness for change, organizational readiness for change has not been subject to extensive theoretical development or empirical ...

Over the last decade the diffusion of Information Technologies has represented one of the main drivers of government reform. The adoption process of such technologies has posed significant challenges for public organizations. The aim of this paper is thus to look into the process of organizational change that public agencies have undergone, in order to single out its most salient characteristic...

Modern day organizations seek to rationalize, innovate, and adapt to changing environments, and circumstances as part of Business Process Reengineering (BPR) efforts. Irrespective of the process reengineering program selected, and the technique used to model, BPR brings with it the issues of organizational, and process changes, which involves managing organizational changes (also called “change...

Learning from failures made along the product life cycle is an effective way for enterprises to increase product and service quality and decrease costs at the same time. However, the product life cycle is distributed in time and space and therefore the implementation of organizational learning processes have to bridge informational, conceptual and technological barriers. The organizational memo...

One of the major challenges for the enterprise of the future is how to support inter-organizational collaborative work in a way that is efficient and responsive to environmental changes. In this paper we analyze how the introduction of key technologies for computer-mediated communication has the potential to transform organizational structures and improve productivity for inter-organizational c...

in present competitive business environment, learning organization is an important competitive advantage. along the time with its changes, cause the organization has to pay more attention to learning for improving their quality process more than the past. these changes has affected on different organizations, such as conservation environment organization (ceo). according to the monitoring role ...

One way to clarify the concept of organizational metnory is by defining organizational memory components in terms of their roles in different organizational forms. In this way the place and function of organizational memory in a business organization can be better understood A professional organization, where both the organizational form and the role of shared organizational information underwe...

administration of organizations in iran generally is similar with one that uses old management techniques and organizational structures which its roots goes backs to the beginning of 20th century. the functional view and hydraulic structures have caused iranians organizations with low productivity and cooperation. as result, they are involved with unreasonable and fluctuating level of quality, ...

This paper presents and estimates a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which labor reallocations between production and organizational tasks and endogenous movements in measured TFP serve as an ampli…cation mechanism in business cycles. In our model, the organizational tasks are related to accumulation of organizational capital which enhances the …nancial relationships between …rms...