Companies are facing different challenges in order to adapt to their environmental context. They should be aware of the changes on the social, political, ecological and economical levels. Moreover, they should act in an efficient and rapid manner by leveraging new and reconfigurable resources. Organizational agility is the firm’s key dynamic capability which enables it to deal with changes and ...

Organizations have to sense and respond rapidly and flexibly to changes in their markets, in short: they have to be agile and this capability to be agile can be a source of competitive advantage. This research aims at (1) understanding the concept and definition of Agility; (2) exploring the impact of Agility on knowledge management in a company; (3) giving recommendations on how to manage Agil...

Agility is difficult to measure due to the vagueness of the concept. The overall problem of measurement is limited to three fundamental questions: what to measure? How to measure it? How to evaluate the results? Measurement of enterprise agility has been a major topic of research since the inception of agility in the early 90s. Some measurement methods have been developed; they mainly remain ti...

Although the relationship of information technology (IT) capability and knowledge capability with organizational agility has been documented, limited information is available on the extent to which these two capabilities affect organizational agility. Attempts to understand the effect of IT and knowledge capability on organizational agility in the presence of contextual factors have also been f...

Recent research indicates that higher ERP assimilation in organizations positively influences organizational agility, and that the dynamic capability of systems agility moderates the effects of ERP assimilation on agility. In this paper, we extend this research, to investigate the organizational competencies under which enterprise systems influence organizational agility. We propose a theoretic...

In turbulent environments, business agility, which is the ability of firms to sense environmental changes and respond to them timely, is an important antecedent of long-term firm success. We introduce business agility as a construct consisting of sensing and responding dimensions reflected by market, network, and operational agility. Here, we explicate the underlying capabilities, drivers, and ...

Agility is a theme which arises in relation to a range of endeavours in the military and the non-military world, appearing either in accounts of practical experience or in statements of aspirations. Concepts of agility have recently been surveyed in the course of an ongoing study of C2 agility conducted for the UK MOD. Whilst the accounts presented of agility differ widely, common to all of the...

Running agility is required for many sports and other physical tasks that demand rapid changes in body direction. Quantifying agility skill remains a challenge because measuring rapid changes of direction and quantifying agility skill from those measurements are difficult to do in ways that replicate real task/game play situations. The objectives of this study were to define and to measure agil...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to determine the effect of Ramadan fasting on body composition, calorie intake and physical performance in young female athletes undertaking training sessions during Ramadan. METHODS Twelve voluntary female athletes (15-27 years old) were assigned to the research. A prospective study was conducted to investigate the athletes on four different occasions: one w...