Information technology (IT) organizations increasingly rely on teams to address a variety of complex and challenging tasks (Salas & Fiore, 2004). Large complex software intensive system design, development, and management require considerable effort in collaboration and coordination among peers. Hence, teams have become an integral and essential component in every IT organization (Yilmaz & Phil...

Information technology governance has become a key issue for organizations as IT decision-making authority and responsibility is devolved away from a central IT function to local IT units and increasingly out of the remit of IT specialists altogether. Research to date has either been conceptual treatises on the issue, or recounts the structures and mechanisms that are currently in place in the ...

Current Information Technology (IT) models for security, content distribution, network and systems management, and provisioning do not match the level of complexity and flexibility required by today’s enterprise. Private enterprises increasingly need to deal with internal security threats the same way as they deal with external security threats. Increasing mobility and globalization demand that...

Considerable research has sought to establish the benefits that technology-mediated online communities offer their members. In an effort to capitalize on these benefits, organizations have been introducing internally oriented communities to support a wide range of tasks. As a result, such communities have become quite common within organizations and it is therefore becoming increasingly importa...

As project teams have become dispersed and communication technology has evolved, organizations have increasingly moved towards usage of synchronous communication technologies such as video/web/audio conferencing and instant messaging to facilitate collaboration among team members although usage of asynchronous communication technologies such as electronic mail, wikis, blogs, social networks, an...

In the United States, organ and tissue procurement has been organized in such a way so as to maximize availability in an efficient fashion that is fair to both donor and recipient. There is a growing cooperation between organ procurement organizations (OPOs) and tissue recovery organizations to facilitate meeting the requirements of both organ and tissue procurement. Successful tissue preservat...

Indeed, customer value has become the main concern of both manufacturing and service organizations in the increasingly competitive environment of today’s customer-centred era. Many organizations have been transforming their business models to enhance their ability to create value for their customers. In this process of creating customer value, marketing and quality both have crucial roles to play.

Information and communication technology (ICT) has become, within a very short time, one of the basic building blocks of modern society. Many countries now understanding the importance of ICT and mastering the basic skills and concepts of it as part of the core of education. Organizations, experts and practitioners in the education sector increasingly recognizing the importance of ICT in suppor...

TECHNOI,O(:Y IS CHANGING THE WORK LIFE of'librarians and support staff; they increasingly depend on it to add value to the services and products they provide. Pressures to keep up with new practices and to remain effective in presentjob responsibilities mean that they must read more about technology and its applications. Consequently, the content of library science journals includes more about ...