UK and German headquartered engineering multinational corporations (MNCs) are compared with a focus on their outsourcing and offshoring initiatives. A novel conceptual framework is developed that uses differing varieties of capitalism (VoC) to compare and contrast a series of criteria. Underlying theory is taken from the resource based view (RBV) of the firm and global production networks (GPNs...

Organization capacity learning is a process referring to the sum total of individual and collective learning through training programs, experience and experimentation, among others. Today, inbusiness ongoing training is one of the most important strategies for human capital development and it is crucial to sustain and improve workers’ knowledge and skills. Many organizations, firms and business...

The Resource-Based View (RBV) has become one of the most popular ways to examine the impact of IT on firm performance. An increasing number of researchers are using the theoretical underpinning of the RBV to ground their research in investigating this relationship. This paper follows in this tradition by developing multidimensional measures for two dimensions of IT capability, inside-out IT cap...

Entrepreneurial orientation-based research is reviewed and in-depth examined especially in the entrepreneurship theme. Research on impact of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) organizational performance has generated numerous important findings. Despite abundant attention given to relationship between performance, results are still inconsistent. Current progress lacking terms theoretical integrat...

What is the relative importance of the contextual factors facilitating e-government and e-business development in a nation? What is the relationship between e-government and e-business in a nation? What is the relationship of e-government and e-business development in a nation with its environmental performance? These are the three research questions that we intend to address in this study. Spe...

In contrast to large companies small and mediumsized enterprises (SMEs) frequently suffer from ‘resource poverty’ (Welsh and White, 1981; Bharati and Chaudhury, 2009), which often affects strategy development and creates perceptual and physical barriers to growth (Fillis, Johansson and Wagner, 2004). For example, small companies usually have fewer financial and human resources (Chow, Haddad and...

Social welfare and healthcare professionals consider their services fragmented, which also impacts information technology (IT) deployment. They also face the question of whether to cooperate with other organisations in IT. The need to cooperate and to organise cooperation has increased with ever-wider IT deployment. Governance of IT helps in this by defining the responsibilities of cooperating ...

O rganizations in the new economy are facing turbulent environments and strong competition. The resource-based view (RBV) of the firm explains the importance of developing valuable and scarce resources and capabilities (Collis & Montgomery, 1995; Hamel, 1994; Prahalad & Hamel, 1990), which are said to be the source of sustainable competitive advantage (Barney, 1991; Barney & Wright, 1998; Wrigh...

Once a relatively stable industry operating in a benign environment, global higher education is undergoing dramatic change. Higher education institutions (HEIs) now face a variety of challenges including globalisation, changes in funding arrangements and the emergence of organisations like consultancies that are moving into the ‘education space’. Increasingly, there is a need to think in compet...

During the last two decades, an increasing amount of attention has been paid by practitioners as well as academics to Interorganizational Information Systems (IOSs) design, deployment and use within supply chains. However, our understanding of the main factors that affect IOSs use and success is hardly complete. Through brief review of coordination mechanisms theory and its related theory such ...