Research on international information systems suggests that alignment between IS service structures and the organizational structure is an important but complex issue. Little empirical work has been doole, however, to identify how such alignment might be achieved. 'Ihis paper reports on the results of a study examining the organizational factors which might be expected to have an impact on the ...

OBJECTIVES To review some of the key debates relating to the nature of organizational culture and culture change care organizations and systems. METHODS A literature review was conducted that covered both theoretical contributions and published studies of the processes and outcomes of culture change programmes across a range of health and non-health care settings. RESULTS There is little co...

the main objectives of a profitable organization are its survival, excellence and finally its prosperity. the organizational prosperity depends on performance based on dimensions called abilities and motivations of the organizations. therefore, the organizations need to have contingency integration between those two dimensions. in the past two decades, we have seen different views and models de...

There has been tremendous growth in electronic commerce over the past few years. This growth is expected to sustain momentum in the future. Hence, the Internet has become an essential tool for business and customers. However, unlike traditional retailers, it lacks key aspects of a shopping experience like interacting with customer sales people and being physically in a store. A well-designed us...

Virtual interorganizational communities of practice (IOCoPs) enable professionals in different organizations to exchange and share knowledge via computer-mediated interactions. Prior literature mainly focuses on internal motivating factors at the individual level. However, knowledge sharing requires social interactions thus influences from external entities play an important role in individuals...

This study aims to bridge two research streams that have evolved relatively apart from each other, namely the research streams on organizational identity and on employer branding (employer image). In particular, we posit that it is crucial to examine which factors company outsiders (applicants) as well as company insiders (employees) associate with a given employer. To this end, this study uses...

it is widely agreed that small scale enterprises (sses) used to play a crucial role in achieving the industrial and economic development. though sses play indispensable economic role, studies are limited to analyze the external factors that affect the growth of sses independently. therefore, the objective of this paper is to examine the effect of external firm factors influencing small scale ma...

Firms continuously search for external knowledge that can contribute to product innovation, which may ultimately increase market performance. The relationship between external knowledge sourcing and market performance is not well-documented. The extant literature primarily examines the causal relationship between external knowledge sources and product innovation performance or to identify facto...

The paper is based on a systematic literature review that examines how the implementation of Lean could bring value to the organization processes and contribute for achieving an operational excellence. Different organizational factors which have importance in the implementation process, are thoroughly examined. Key success factors that enhance the implementation process are identified human res...