1 Bob Zmud was the accepting Senior Editor for this article. 2 Much research has been done on organizational forms, particularly hierarchies, communities, and markets. A classic article that describes how firms can be organized is Ouchi, W. G., “Markets, Bureaucracies, and Clans,” Administrative Science Quarterly (25), 1980, pp. 129-141. Three more recent articles that examine the use of market...

Despite the importance to researchers, managers, and policy makers of how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational performance, there is uncertainty and debate about what we know and don't know. A review of the literature reveals that studies examining the association between information technology and organizational performance are divergent in how they conceptualize key const...

in discussion relating to management, motivational factors are one of the major indicators and effective variables in organizational strategy and achieving job success. this study with the aim of cognition of the relation of some studied variables and the motive of achievement and success in cooperatives managers and determining the contribution of each factor by use of correlation and expost f...

An increase in unleaded gasoline consumption causes growth of enussion of monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (MAlIs) such as benzene and its a1ky1ated derivatives: toluene, ethylbenzene, isopropylbezene, and trimethylbenzenes (TMB). These compounds are highly toxic in both, direct andindirect effects onliving organisms. This paper describes the applied method of measurements and presents results ...

Social movements are heterogeneous because they attract organizations from other movements and encourage activists to create organizations ‘‘indigenous’’ to the movement. This chapter examines the structural and technical differences between these kinds of organizations. Employing a contingency theory framework, it is shown that older ‘‘spill over’’ groups are much more likely to be multiissue ...

Institutional theory suggests that organizations pursue legitimacy by conforming to isomorphic pressures in their environment. We extend previous research on institutional theory by distinguishing between two definitions of conformity (compliance and convergence) and by taking a comprehensive view of the organizational characteristics that might be subject to isomorphic pressures. This framewor...

The capitalist and socialist societies of the 20 century assigned firms different roles within their economic systems. Enterprises transforming themselves from socialism to market economies thus face fundamental organizational restructuring. Many former state-owned firms in the transitional economies of Central and Eastern Europe failed, so far. Firms pursued primarily defensive downsizing, rat...

Complex organizations spend significant resources acquiring new processes and technologies . However, there is no assurance that organizational members will embrace these technologies once they are adopted . Organizational leaders have a strong incentive to ensure that new practices persist, and that technological changes become so routine as to be taken for granted : a process called instituti...

Research on international information systems suggests that alignment between IS service structures and the organizational structure is an important but complex issue. Little empirical work has been doole, however, to identify how such alignment might be achieved. 'Ihis paper reports on the results of a study examining the organizational factors which might be expected to have an impact on the ...