While technology enables home-based telecommuting (HBT), it also has been blamed for its slow growth. Thus, technology both may facilitate and hinder HBT. In order to clarify the role that technology currently plays when employees HBT, this study investigated the relationship between different forms of organizational support (classified as technology-related, somewhat technology-related, and no...

This study uses institutional theory as a lens to examine the increasing global diffusion of the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and the motivation of individual organisations to adopt the framework. The history of ITIL is provided to illustrate how the framework has travelled through time and space. The register of organisations certified to the international standard for ...

The goal: Not just better technology but better business processes that make a company more competitive. Client/server systems link clients and servers via a network to support distributed computation, analysis, and presentation, providing a common method for distributing computer power within companies. Although companies are embracing client/server technology when moving from legacy systems [...

The role of libraries changed tremendously in the digital age. Search engine technology and full text availability now define the standards for information research. Libraries as knowledge providers have to face the challenges of the new technologies. Our poster contribution takes the example of Augmented Reality (AR) to show a way to use the potential of digital technology for library services...

Although real options theory normatively suggests that managers should associate such real options with project value, little field research has been conducted to test whether they suffer from systematic biases in doing so. We draw on the notion of bounded rationality in managerial decision making to explore this understudied phenomenon. Using data collected from managers in 88 firms, we show t...

as one of the most important components of a nations basic facilities, the networking of the library plays a vital role in terms of promoting the sharing of access to information. although the traditional methods of literature indexing and accessing will continue to exist and develop, library networking will become the new model and the direction for the development of the library. through the ...

We conducted a qualitative study of Nokia to understand its rapid downfall over the 2005–2010 period from its position as a world-dominant and innovative technology organization. We found that top and middle managers’ shared emotions during the smartphone innovation process caused cycles of behaviors that harmed both the process and its outcome. Together, organizational attention structures and...