Title of dissertation: UNDERSTANDING DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES AT THE SUBUNIT LEVEL: OPERATIONAL FLEXIBILITY AND THE CRUCIAL ROLE OF ORGANIZATION DESIGN AND INFORMATION SHARING Sharyn Dawn Gardner, Doctor of Philosophy, 2004 Dissertation directed by: Professor Cynthia Stevens Department of Management and Organization Professor Samer Faraj Department of Decision and Information Technologies Organizat...

There is a growing use of business intelligence (BI) for better management decisions in different industries. However, empirical studies on BI are still scarce in academic research. This research investigates BI from an organizational agility perspective. Organizational agility is the ability to sense and respond to market opportunities and threats with speed. Drawing on systems theory and lite...

In an ever accelerating world demanding fast adjustment to changing business environments, organizational flexibility becomes increasingly important. By outsourcing business processes (BPO), there are both potential flexibility losses (e.g. loss of control) and potential flexibility gains (e.g. the transformation of fixed to variable costs). Firms have to balance this trade-off to retain suffic...

The new training literature suggests that in a monopsonistic market employers will not only pay for fi rm-specifi c training but also for general training if the risk of poaching is limited. This implies that training participation should decrease when competition for employees is higher among fi rms. Using worker level data for Germany we fi nd that the hypothesis is supported empirically. Spe...

a culture conducive to information security practice is extremely important for organizations since information has to be critical assets in modern enterprises. thus for understanding and improving the organizational behavior with regard to information security, enterprises may look into organizational culture and examine how it affects the effectiveness of implementing ism. this study aims to ...

Based on psychological ownership theory and social exchange theory, this paper analyzes the impact of personal knowledge employee sharing in Chinese digital creative enterprises examines mediation effect alienation moderating role organizational flexibility. analysis 357 sample data, results show that significantly negatively impacts sharing, is mediating between them. Organizational flexibilit...

promoting productivity is one of the goals of usinginformation technology in organizations. the purpose of this research isexamining the impact of it on organizational productivity andrecognizing its mechanisms based on process-oriented approach. for thisend, by reviewing the literature of the subject a number of impacts of iton organizational processes were identified. then, through interviews...

in the business environment, virtual organizations can meet market needs efficiently and effectively via knowledge worker and high flexibility and also generate significant competitive advantage. due to obtaining the advantage of these organizations, managerial issues related to them must be recognized and organized. decrease of face to face relationship, geographically distributed, dynamic job...