This paper proposes and tests a model to explain three critical outcomes of Performance Management Systems: information quality, effectiveness, and usefulness of the PMS to managerial decision-making. Drawing from Organizational Information Processing Theory (OIPT), we examined how those three outcomes may be influenced by factors that affect OIP requirements (industry, size, and geographic sco...

The role of human resource management in learning organizations has been discussed by a number of researchers. It is suggested that some of the more traditional personnel functions of HR practitioners may be tailored to encourage a focus on learning and thus to help achieve organizational goals. However, there is a lack of empirical studies that explore the relationship between human resource m...

Green IT adoption is a plausible attempt for organizations to tackle the current environmental problem, and can also improve the economic performance of an organization. Therefore, organizational adoption of Green IT is beneficial to the society. Investigating how the decision maker in an organization would come to adopt Green IT is necessary to establish strategies in promoting organizational ...

Admitting that the quality of a decision depends on the quality of the knowledge used to make it, it is argued that the enhancement of the decision making efficiency and effectiveness is strongly related to the appropriate exploitation of all possible organizational knowledge resources. On the other hand, software is perceived as an encapsulation of knowledge. Especially software tools offering...

Within the field of environmental spatial decision and policy making the use of ICTs is currently limited to rudimentary aspects of the planning process and is focused on the duplication of available systems and processes. Over recent years large projects have been carried out and a range of tools has been developed but, the majority of the systems developed merely mirror traditional methods of...

I investigate the link between the volatility of a …rm’s operating environment and its preferred organizational structure, as determined by the allocation of decision rights, the compensation structure of the managers and the degree of operational integration. The results are broadly consistent with the common wisdom regarding the …t between organizational design and the environment. Volatile e...