The ability of an organization to be flexible is becoming increasingly important. Within the field of IS, interorganizational systems (IOS) have been proposed as an avenue towards flexibility. This paper proposes an interpretive approach to clarify the complex notion of flexibility and to analyse the impact of IOS on organizational flexibility. It presents a research framework and argues that a...

Process innovation is vital, but paradoxical, requiring flexibility and empowerment, as well as control and efficiency. Increasingly, literatures stress organizational culture as a key to process innovation. Yet culture remains an intricate, amorphous phenomenon. In this article, we explore how organizational supportive culture – impact a particular process innovation, the implementation of adv...

THEPRESENT BUDGET MODEL for libraries is not serving libraries well during this time of transition to an increasingly electronic knowledge environment. The existing model inhibits organizational flexibility and exacerbates the staff’s sense that they are losing control of their own professional destinies. A new transitional budget model is recommended. The transitional model emphasizes staff ed...

organization’s obligation for responding to demand changes and creating strategic opportunity, drives focus toward entrepreneurship, so that scholars’ attention turns toward influential factors on entrepreneurship more and more. the objective of this paper is to investigate the effect of human resource flexibility on entrepreneurship at research institute of petroleum industry (ripi). research ...

Understanding the formation of supply chain flexibility is important. We draw on the organizational learning perspective to examine how inter-organizational systems (IOS) enabled collaborative knowledge creation can enhance the supply chain flexibility. Empirical results from 141 supply chain enterprises support most of our hypotheses. The results show that, (1) IOS use for exploration has posi...