Flexible business processes are a key success factor for enterprises to succeed in globalised markets. The Service-oriented Architecture (SoA) concept is very well suited to support flexible business processes and application systems because capabilities (in form of services) can be composed in the most efficient way to achieve a high level of agility. However, the management of SoA-founded app...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the nature of agility in an organizational setting -how a software development firm (SDF) developed, maintained and enhanced agility as it changed from a developer of experimental prototypes to a product-based provider. Qualitative approach based on extensive interviews and on-site observations at two points in time separated by a five-year interval. ...

Purpose The resource-based view (RBV) emphasises the importance of resources for firm performance. However, recent research argues that focus on performance should also be based inside-out (IO) and outside-in (OI) capabilities. Specifically, we study product development (an IO) market driving OI) entrepreneurial marketing capabilities in an emerging market. further investigates moderating effec...

Fast-moving software organizations must respond quickly to changing technological options and market trends while delivering high-quality services at competitive prices. Improving agility of information systems development (ISD) may reconcile these inherent tensions, but previous research of agility predominantly focused separately on managing either the individual project or the organization. ...

Legged robots have superior terrain adaptability comparing to traditional wheeled vehicles. They also offer attractive capabilities in terms of agility and obstacle avoidance. On the other hand, traditional wheeled platforms provide sufficient robustness, mechanical simplicity and energetic performance. They are fast, powerful in terms of load to weight ratio, stable, and easy to control. Hybri...

Online Social Network (OSN) is an emerging communication technology which has increasingly been used. Today organizations are paying more attention to the importance of these networks and are trying to create value with these emerging technologies. Current literature focuses on the information and network implications of these networks at the individual and group levels, leaving the organizatio...

In a market where rapid changes in demand, product mix and volumes are now commonplace and where the requirement for a production operation to be reliable in terms of quality and delivery performance is now a baselevel expectation, an appropriate set of response capabilities is critical. This paper presents a link between agility, responsiveness and flexibility in the context of production oper...

Organizational agility (OA), as a key dynamic capability, is a firm’s ability to enable sensing environmental changes and responding efficiently and effectively to them. This study explores this topic further by analyzing the part played by the information systems capabilities (ISC) variable as an antecedent of OA, and absorptive capacity (AC) as a mediator construct. Furthermore, we test the n...

Agility metrics are difficult to define in general, mainly due to the multidimensionality and vagueness of the concept of agility itself. In this paper, a knowledge-based framework is proposed and presented as a candidate solution for the measurement and assessment of manufacturing agility. Given an enterprise, in order to calculate its overall agility, a set of quantitatively defined agility p...