This issue of organizational unlearning, which is defined as the discarding of old routines to make way for new ones, has received limited attention in the literature although studies of organizational learning have been proliferating. Based on a comparative case analysis of eight Sino-foreign joint ventures, this study examines knowledge transfer by foreign partners to greenfield versus acquis...

Over the years, cumulative data have shown that maintenance is a major cost concern, as a matter of fact, a growing cost concern (Pigosky, 1997). The maintainability of a system seems to have much influence on the ease or difficulty to implement changes. A consensus has emerged that the maintainability of a software system is dependent on its design (Rombach, 1990), in the procedural paradigm a...

An important assumption for many KA researchers is structure preservation ; i.e. conceptual models can be converted in a straight forward manner into a design for an implementation. This assumption may not always hold. Seemingly trivial variants in a qualitative conceptual models can block pragmatically desirable properties such as KB-testability and KB-maintainability. KB-testability and KB-ma...

In mobile communications age, environment changes rapidly, the requirements change is the software project must face challenge. Able to overcome the impact of requirements change, software development risk can be effectively decreased. In order to reduce software requirements change risk, the paper investigates the major software development models and recommends the adaptable requirements chan...

Maintainability is an important issue in design where the accessibility of certain parts is determined for routine maintenance. In the past its study has been largely manual and labor intensive. Either by using physical mockup or computer animation with CAD models of a design, the task relies on human to provide an access path for the part. In this paper, we present an automated approach to rep...

Proper decisions play a crucial role in any software architecture design process. An important decision of design stage is the selection of a suitable software architecture style. Lack of investigation on the quantitative impact of architecture styles on software quality attributes is the main problem in using such styles. Consequently, the use of architecture styles in designing is based on th...

Software architecture evaluation methods aim at identifying potential maintainability problems for a given architecture. Several of these methods exist, which typically prescribe the structure of the evaluation process. Often left implicit, however, are the concrete system attributes that need to be studied in order to assess the maintainability of implemented architectures. To determine this s...