the main objective of this study is identification and validation of symptoms and dimensions of organizational mindfulness in higher education. this study is a mixed research, of explanatory sequential design, and in the area of applied research. research population of qualitative part includes scholars and academics of faculties of management from public universities located in tehran from whi...

In theories of strategic management, organizational flexibility is considered as a strategic asset in situations in which anticipation is impossible and strategic surprise likely. In these situations, the use of traditional planning strategies will be increasingly supplemented and sometimes replaced by flexible configuration strategies. This paper distinguishes four of these strategies to confi...

This paper examines the simultaneous implementation within a single organization of two contemporary managerial information systems—Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Knowledge Management (KM). Exploring their simultaneous deployment within an organization provides an opportunity to examine the resulting interactions and impacts. More specifically, we examine their combined influence on imp...

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) models are gaining acceptance but their business value has largely been conceptual or anecdotal. In this paper, we empirically examine the role of SaaS in IT-enabled innovation of the firms and the role of organizational complementarities in augmenting the impact. We argue that SaaS can support IT-enabled innovation and that complementarities like learning from past...

Increased firm formalization helps emerging firms develop stable routines and processes to increase their chances of survival. However, uncertain and dynamic task environments of emerging firms require more flexible organizational structures. Such duality of structural prescriptions stems from competing demands of task and institutional environments. We propose that manufacturing flexibility co...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Green management Strategic flexibility Institutional support Organizational legitimacy Firm competitiveness Combining the dynamic capability perspective and institutional theory, this study examines how firms in emerging economies respond to green management pressures and measures what they gain by adopting green management practices. Drawing on data from 272 Chi...

Maintaining flexible business processes is a difficult task since a business process typically satisfies the needs of several stakeholders. In this paper we examine organizational flexibility and business processes from the point of view of the regulation of relationships between stakeholders. We then propose a set of high-level requirements for business process support systems for the maintena...

β-lactamases are bacterial enzymes that confer resistance to β-lactam antibiotics, such as penicillins and cephalosporins. There are four classes of β-lactamase enzymes, each with characteristic sequence and structure properties. Enzymes from class A are the most common and have been well characterized across the family; however, less is known about how physicochemical properties vary across th...