Louay Karadsheh, Lawrence Technology University, Southfield, MI, USA, [email protected] Ebrahim Mansour, Applied Science Private University, Jordan, [email protected] Samer Alhawari, Applied Science Private University, Jordan, [email protected] Ghassan Azar, Lawrence Technology University, Southfield, MI, USA, [email protected] Naser El-Bathy, Lawrence Technology University, Sout...

Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) are becoming an increasingly important tool in helping modern organizations manage their human assets effectively. However, to date the organizational adoption of HRIS remains an under-researched phenomenon. Adopting the technology-organizationenvironment model as an analytical framework, this exploratory investigation draws on qualitative evidence col...

Virtual teams play an increasingly important role in the modern economy, and many organizations struggle to overcome the weaknesses inherent in technology-mediated work. Identity communication has been shown to greatly improve individualand group-level outcomes in offline settings, but these benefits have not been investigated in the context of virtual teams, where mediated interaction can affe...

As a result of the increasingly more turbulent environment of today IT organizations face an important problem: on the one hand they have to control their activities, which requiresa certain stability,on the otherhand, they need to be creative and innovative, requiringa certain amount of autonomy, which in turn may result in instability. In this paper it is shown that control and creativity/inn...

Privacy has become a significant concern in modern society as personal information about individuals is increasingly collected, used, and shared, often using digital technologies, by a wide range of organizations. Certain information handling practices of organizations that monitor individuals’ activities on the Web, data aggregation companies that compile massive databases of personal informat...

Organizations both in Australia and around the world are increasingly recognizing that competitive success depends on how well the supply chain works in delivering value to customers. Supply Chain Intelligence (SCI) is a tool deriving from data warehouse technology which enables supply chain partners to collaborate by providing visibility of information and online analytical capabilities across...

Granovetter’s theory on the strength of weak ties provides an analysis of processes in interpersonal networks forming a very fruitful micro-macro bridge in sociology. When applied to organizations, theories of weak ties give a basis for understanding the mechanisms of work interoperability and information exchange. Recently the term ‘virtual organization’ is increasingly used to describe a new ...

As information technology innovation becomes increasingly complex and as information technologies diffuse into new professions and institutional contexts, researchers are looking to project participants and organizational members to understand how their interpretations of technology influence change processes and outcomes. Technology frames of reference (TFR) is a well-established theoretic fra...

Business organizations have increasingly become the target of social movement activists, but relatively little is known about the antecedents and effectiveness of these protests. We fill in the literature gap by studying American communities’ protests against Wal-Mart’s entry from 1998 to 2005. The incidence of protests is significantly related to local political ideology, community stability, ...

The complexities of today’s organizations have made it increasingly challenging for leaders to encourage and sustain a culture of cooperation. As organizations become flatter and leaner and people are required to do “more with less,” the key to success is the ability to coordinate decisions and actions across organizational boundaries and gain the support of people who often have competing prio...