Knowledge management (KM) has emerged as a strategic imperative to improve organizational competitiveness. Aligning KM initiatives with business strategy through appropriate KM strategy is a vital beginning for the successful exploitation of knowledge for business success. In this research paper, we explore the key dimensions of evolving KM strategy through a case study of an Indian organizatio...

Stochastic dominance constraints allow a decision-maker to manage risk in an optimization setting by requiring their decision to yield a random outcome which stochastically dominates a reference random outcome. We present new integer and linear programming formulations for optimization under first and second-order stochastic dominance constraints, respectively. These formulations are more compa...

The contribution of IT to business performance has been studied from two main perspectives: a ‘strategy as positioning perspective,’ which underlines a market power imperative, and a resourcebased view perspective, which conceptualizes the enterprise as a ‘bundle of unique resources.’ The objective of the present study is to improve our understanding of the contribution of IT to firm performanc...

There are different tools to support the innovation planning, however, the paradigm of open innovation shows that there is a need to adopt different partners in the development of technology, product, service or process, and many of the proposals in the literature ignore this theme on the innovation process. This study proposes a generic model to strategic innovation planning, especially for te...

Concepts and patterns of societal culture are becoming increasingly complex in the context of modern nation-states, which have seen evolving multiculturalism as a result of immigration. Theories of national culture and identity are set out in the first section, followed by analyses of three major industrialized states: Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom. These states, which toge...

The alignment of information technology with business objectives tends to be a managerial priority in modern organisations. Thus, practitioners and researchers have proposed different approaches to assess this relationship, some following similar approaches whilst others proposing different ones. The variety of approaches proposed, however, has created confusion about the applicability and cont...

The alignment of information technology (IT) and business strategy is a perennial challenge for corporate executives. While earlier studies confirm the value of alignment, there is still some question as to how alignment creates value and the level at which value is created. In this research, we use a series of theoretical arguments based on the interconnected structure of the value chain to co...

This paper describes a simple classroom experiment in which students decide which projects to fund on the basis of majority voting. Several agendas are used to generate a voting cycle and an inefficiently high level of public spending. Classroom discussion allows students to discover for themselves how to manipulate outcomes through agenda design and strategic voting. The exercise leads natural...

This paper reviews the technological, structural, and strategic change within the global pharmaceutical industry, which started in 1973 with the success of recombinant DNA. These changes significantly impact the industry paradigm and the strategy logic of a firm. We then focus on the developments within the Finnish biotechnology industry during the past five years and the future prospects and s...

The purpose of this qualitative study was to understand activities and behaviors of learners and instructor in an online programming course. Adobe Connect web conferencing system was used as a delivery platform. A total of fifty-six sophomore students attending a computer education and instructional technology program (online) participated in this study. Data were collected through observations...