This study examines the role that business intelligence (BI) and communication technologies play in how firms may achieve organizational sensing agility, decision making agility, and acting agility in different organizational and environmental contexts. Based on the information-processing view of organizations and dynamic capability theory, we suggest a configurational analytic framework that d...

There is increasing interest in the storage, retrieval, and analysis of email communications. One active area of research focuses on the inference of properties of the underlying social network giving rise to the email communications[1, 2]. Email communication between individuals implies some type of relationship, whether it is formal, such as a manager-employee relationship, or informal, such ...

In this chapter a case study is presented, in which the ethnomethodological approach is used to analyze the impact of the implementation of an information system, called Sispes, on organizational communication processes in the residence for elderly Giovanelli (Italy). Sispes is a Web-based platform which sustains communication processes and knowledge management according to a customized workflo...

Prior experimental evidence finds decentralized pre-play communication to facilitate efficient coordination among interdependent agents. However, the kind of communication in these experiments is unrealistic for most organizational contexts, as it consists of costless messages from every agent, which are sent every time a coordination game is played. We study how communication use and its effec...

We present applications to enhance communication for an organization using Sociometric badges. The badge collects the voice, motion, and location data of the wearer. We use this data to determine the amount of face-to-face interaction, conversational time, physical activity levels, and physical proximity to other people. With the data collected from each individual we analyze the collective beh...

The study describes and evaluates inter-organizational communication and relationships involving rural development management of community lands within specific perimetros florestais in Portugal. The research design is an exploratory research study approach that collected information with a mail questionnaire, interviews and information gleaned from community land association meetings and an in...