IT providers have heralded software-as-a-service (SaaS) as an excellent complement to on-premises software addressing the shortcomings of previous on-demand software solutions such as application service provision (ASP). However, although some practitioners and academics emphasize the opportunities that SaaS offers companies, others already predict its decline due to the considerable risk invol...

The importance of instilling relevance for IT executives in IS research has been stressed by a number of scholars for the long term survival and growth of the IS discipline. Though there have been extended deliberations on the subject, to our knowledge, there has been no empirical analysis to examine the relevance of current IS research. In this study, we analyze the relevance of the 388 publis...

Background: Effective leadership is essential to passing through obstacles facing the health field. The current health care system in Iran has major problems and gaps in the field of effective leadership. The aim of this study was to evaluate hospital managers’ leadership style through selfassessment and to determine the correlation between leadership styles with healthcare executives’ leadersh...

Public higher education institutions in Malaysia are growing rapidly and increasingly, interested in the use of fast and effective decision-making. Executives need the knowledge and information to be able to make these fast and effective decisions. This article discusses on the suggested executive support system framework that can be used by executives for decision-making and analysis. This stu...

Recent research has shown that reconnecting long-lost, dormant ties can yield tremendous value, often more than active ties. Yet two key research questions remain unanswered: which of a person’s many dormant ties provide the most value, and which are advice seekers most inclined to choose as reconnection targets? In the current study, we asked executives to seek advice on an important work proj...

Employing Bourdieu’s practice theory, this paper explores factors that influence corporate executives’ behaviour towards governance regulation. Drawing insights from a weak institutional environment (Nigeria) and relying on qualitative research methodology (semi-structured interviews with 31 executives), uncovers how nine nuanced situational cultural field determine regulatory response to the s...

O ur goal with this column is to provide a useful, practical introduction to competency modeling, a practice that is already a mainstay in many health professions and that is likely to find expanded use within health administration in the coming years. The competency model recently made available by the Healthcare Leadership Alliance (HLA) will serve to frame subsequent installments of this col...

This article contributes with a unique quantitative study of newspaper executives’ perceptions of the interest and collaboration contained within digital media innovation among staff in the editorial, business and IT departments. Two research questions are explored: (1) Do newspaper executives perceive that there is diverging interest in digital media innovation across the editorial, business a...

Aspects of the role of information in strategic decision-making by executives in industry are hardly ever mentioned in management research publications. We therefore investigate in this paper the way information is obtained, analysed, judged and applied by executives in industry that have to take strategic decisions.We interviewed executives from thirteen companies in TheNetherlands and inGerma...

Environmental scanning is the acquisition and use of information about events and trends in an organization’s external environment, the knowledge of which would assist management in planning the organization’s future courses of action. This paper reports a study of how 13 chief executives in the Canadian publishing and telecommunications industries scan their environments and use the informatio...