INTRODUCTION Although a number of groupware applications such as email have become an almost ubiquitous part of many organizations, other groupware applications have not been as universally adopted (Orlikowski, 1993). This phenomenon is not only exhibited in business organizations, but also extends to educational institutions. Anecdotal evidence indicates that many professors and students now i...

Contemporary organizations are drastically changing, in large part due to the development and application of newer communication technologies and their respective media channel options. Within virtual organizations, business leaders are increasingly faced with issues associated with managing and communicating with their mobile workers. According to Richard L. Nolan and Hossam Galal of the Harva...

As supply chains become more complex and global, organizations increasingly rely on advanced information technology systems to coordinate and support value chain activities. These interorganizational systems while integral to supply chain management also introduce an additional point of vulnerability. Although a matter of increasing concern, who and how the responsibility for securing these sys...

Advances in information and communication technology have enabled contemporary organizations to become increasingly dispersed. Knowledge sharing among highly dispersed employees has been widely regarded as an organizational challenge that, if not dealt with properly, would affect the organization’s competitive advantage. Based on the practice perspective of knowledge, this study aims to explore...

review of studies indicates that development endeavors in science, technology and innovation (sti) arenas are counted as main accelerators of economic growth and social welfare. for that, governments and international organizations increasingly see the evaluation of science, technology and innovation as an important agenda for their policy and action. this article goes to employ document study ...

Combat organizations are increasingly faced with the challenge to adapt to new and diverse engagements. The pace of change is being accelerated by advances in information technology. This article offers perspectives from organization theory that can serve as design principles for enabling combat organizations to adopt flexible structures to cope with changes in the external environment. The spe...

This paper introduces the narrative network as a device for representing patterns of “technology in use.” The narrative network offers a novel conceptual vocabulary for the description of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their relationship to organizational forms. We argue that as ICTs have become increasingly modular and recombinable, so have organizational processes and f...

As organizations have become more complex over the past twenty years, so have the structures and the governance mechanisms that control them. Similarly, with the growth of various computer technologies, IT has become increasingly complex, in terms of hardware, software, and architecture. Thus, the governance and structure of IT reflects both organizational and technological changes. During the ...

in this paper an attempt has been made to show how information technology (it) is used as a strategic tool to meet competitive advantages and how it is rapidly becoming a necessary ingredient for achieving quality within the service industry. an in-depth review of information requirements for service sectors has been made and the possible relationships between it and typology of service organiz...

Organizational agility has become increasingly essential for contemporary organizations to survive and compete in this information age. Although scholars have discussed the possible effects of information technology (IT) competency on organizational agility, existing knowledge on IT–agility relationship is limited. An integration analysis of internal capability and external environment is lacki...