Strategic agility evokes contradictions, such as stability-flexibility, commitment-change, and established routinesnovel approaches. These competing demands pose challenges that require paradoxical leadership—practices seeking creative, both/and solutions that can enable fast-paced, adaptable decision making. Why is managing paradox critical to strategic agility? And which practices enable lead...

A lot of research has been done to promote and develop good elearning models, practices, and technological environments. However, fewer efforts were deployed to support e-learning practitioners in performing their job on a day to day basis. There is a need to facilitate communication, collaboration, and coordination amongst e-learning community members. A strategic approach is to solve the prob...

This study examines the role of knowledge management capacity in the relationship between strategic human resource practices and innovation performance from the knowledge-based view. This study uses regression analysis to test the hypotheses in a sample of 146 firms. The results indicate that strategic human resource practices are positively related to knowledge management capacity which, in tu...

In this paper, a social theory framework is developed to explain the common themes of recursive and adaptive practice underpinning existing strategic management literature. In practice, there is a co-existent tension between recursive and adaptive forms of strategic action since both are important to competitive advantage. This tension may be better understood by examining how practitioners use...

The literature suggests that business-IT alignment is an important antecedent of IS success, business process performance, and competitive advantage. Additionally, IT governance practices are highlighted as being instrumental to fostering business-IT alignment. In this paper, we derive various IT governance practices (in terms of structures, processes, relational mechanisms, and enterprise arch...

• The implementation of interorganizational strategic change projects is shaped by power relations and practices. paper draw from a unique ethnography an project. A conceptual framework for studying practices in developed. study shed light on the long-term effects Strategic also what actors fail to do. Power projects, used implementing change, essential but not well understood. This devises whi...

abundantly clear though the need for effective eclectic techniques for enhancing learners’ vocabulary learning strategies may seem, in practice, language instructors, by all accounts, tend to resort to only a few obsolete ones. this review paper aims to provide a brief account of practices in vocabulary teaching and learning by focusing on the research on teaching words in context and out of co...