This paper examines how norms develop and influence the planning of technological and organizational change. A case study highlights the influences of a broadly held management innovation as it is introduced into an existing organizational culture, demonstrating how norms play a role in attempts to introduce technical and management innovations. In the case, three sources of normative structuri...

Empowerment, creativity, and organizational memory are constructs that have been researched in MS. While each construct has received individual attention, we have found relatively little research linking them. Hence, we developed a theoretical model to illuminate the relationships between organizational memory, worker empowerment, and creativi@ The model was developed based on the literature in...

Most ICT projects failed due to various factors including organizational issues and leaders who did not sufficiently assess organizational readiness for change. Although various perspectives and criteria have been used by researchers to measure organizational readiness, reported evidence on its measurement in information systems (IS) adoption is still limited and unclear, which calls for clarif...

Providing adequate access control is crucial for the proper execution of any Web Service (WS) orchestration. Typically, access rules and authorization constraints are defined for a WS orchestration and are resolved over an organizational model at runtime in order to find authorized users to perform orchestration tasks. As known from many practical studies, organizational models are frequently s...

One of the important problems in organizational memories is their initial set-up. It is difficult to choose the right information to include in an organizational memory, and the right information is also a prerequisite for maximizing the uptake and relevance of the memory content. To tackle this problem, most developers adopt heavy-weight solutions and rely on a faithful continuous interaction ...

Circumstances sometimes require expert witnesses under oath to express opinions about opposing experts or professional colleagues who work within their own professional, geographic, or organizational circle. This requirement poses some common problems that have not been well discussed in the literature. This article addresses some of those problems and suggests some useful solutions.

Demographic heterogeneity is a central theoretical construct in organizational demography research. The most commonly used measure of demographic heterogeneity is the coefficient of variation. I critically evaluate the rationale for using this measure and show that the use of the coefficient of variation raises a number of methodological and interpretive problems. Empirical analyses of turnover...

In this paper we identify the organizational problems of Mathematical Knowledge Management and describe tools that address one of these problems, namely, the additional annotation of formalized knowledge. We describe, then, how the tools are realized in the frame of the Theorema system.

This paper investigates the value of high-powered incentives for motivating search for novelty in business organizations. While organizational search critically depends on the individual efforts of employees, motivating search effort is challenged by problems of unobservable behavior and the misalignment of individual and organizational interests. Prior work on organizational design thus sugges...

In line with the overall theme of this year’s OLKC conference, this paper explores the terrain that is opened up when we re-view the concept of organizational memory through some of the recent thinking and research about the nature of individual memory. We argue that many researchers in the field of organizational memory have tended to overlook this fertile source of new ideas. It is our key co...