Although supplier alliances are widely considered as an effective source of competitive advantage by firms operating in uncertain business environments, the literature offers inconsistent suggestions concerning how environmental uncertainty affects supplier alliances. The framework of transaction cost economics (TCE) suggests that, when environmental uncertainty is present to a nontrivial but n...

Uncertainty is an important factor that influences social evolution in natural and artificial environments. Here we distinguish between three aspects of uncertainty. Environmental uncertainty is the variance of resources in the environment, perceived uncertainty is the variance of the resource distribution as perceived by the organism and effective uncertainty is the variance of resources effec...

This paper introduces a 3D environmental urban information system which is to help urban designers and developers to analysing and evaluating the environmental impacts of their urban projects. Where urban data is acquired from 3D urban models and environmental data is often coming from simulation software. For realizing environmental impacts analysis, the environmental urban information must be...

This paper presents a comprehensive study of the influence of environmental uncertainty on businessIT alignment. The existing literature postulates environmental uncertainty as a key challenge to achieving business-IT alignment. Hence, the first objective of this study is to identify the extent of the impact of environmental uncertainty on business-IT alignment, and to determine its relative im...

The healthcare industry is presently using information technology to transform itself. New strategies and tactics to increase efficiency and quality through the use of IT are being developed and implemented. Through this process, firms have to adapt to environment properly for their survival because environmental uncertainty can become either crises or opportunities and understanding environmen...

Using a moral hazard model, this study examines the relationship between environmental uncertainty and the adoption of decentralized IT governance. We show that this relationship is determined by a trade-off between the need for processing local information and the concern on moral hazard. The trade-off results in an inverted-U-shaped relationship between environmental uncertainty and decentral...

Although effective and efficient supply chain management requires integrated business processes that go beyond purchasing and logistics activities, some doubts are expressed concerning the applicability of supply chain integration practices. Specifically, a careful literature search reveals that no studies have included the effect of environmental uncertainty on the relationship between supply ...

The present paper focuses on third-parties’ decisions to punish and reward in social dilemmas, and on the moderating role of environmental uncertainty (i.e., uncertainty about the size of the common resource). We argue and demonstrate that in social dilemmas third-parties use the equality rule as a strict benchmark to determine punishments (Study 1) as well as rewards (Study 2), but only under ...

Environmental data and models are uncertain by nature. The lack of knowledge about, for example, the magnitude of potential measurement errors may lead to unforeseen consequences. This makes it difficult to assess the data’s or model’s usefulness for critical applications. We present an approach for the visualization of uncertainty coming from in-situ environmental sensors. The visualization co...