Purpose – This paper examines whether the implementation of ERP impacts both business strategy and organizational capabilities which in turn enhance firm performance. Specifically, the paper investigates the mediating effect of business strategy and organizational capabilities on the relationship between ERP implementation and firm performance. Design/methodology/approach – Using secondary data...

This paper reports the progress of an attempt to examine how and why complex integrated IT infrastructures, such as ERP systems, impact firm performance. Based on emerging literature on agility, IT management and organizational theories, a conceptual model that describes a nomological network linking IT infrastructure characteristics, organizational culture, agility and firm performance is pres...

Innovation is a new and wide scoped subject not only for the field of social science, but also research in various fields associated with creativity and ingenuity. Organizational learning has also been a hotspot research subject which has been analysed and put profound importance upon in order to boost firm performance. The main purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between org...

This paper contributes to the literature on organizational change by examining organizations as social entities embedded in inter-organizational networks. In contrast with extant research that focuses on macro environmental and internal factors to explain organizational change, we put forth the social network surrounding the firm as a major driver of any change process. Specifically, we examine...

nowadays, the process of knowledge sharing has gone beyond organizational boundaries and the issue of knowledge sharing is discussed widely among different companies and organizations in order to improve their performance. with the emergent of outsourcing process and increasing attention of organizations toward it, managers are more inclined to outsource their services; but, the problem of inte...

Managers and researchers would benefit from both an understanding of the organizational practices that result in more featured e-commerce sites and an understanding of the particular features that contribute to firm performance. A Web-based survey of 458 managers of business-to-consumer e-commerce revealed that two organizational practices CEO commitment and planning generally resulted in more ...

In this paper, we examine the phenomenon of dyadic inter-organizational relationships and develop a conceptual model to explain the influence of complementary knowledge and relative absorptive capacity on firm performance. Using theoretical perspectives emanating from the knowledge-based view of the firm and organizational learning, we suggest that performance outcomes in inter-organizational r...