this paper explores the impact of organizational factors on a major information system project in a governmental organization in Norway. The study revealed that the predominant organizational factors include; authoritarian style, functional structure, and a working culture that values conformity and loyalty upwards and is resistant to knowledge sharing. These factors are deeply rooted in the pr...

inter organizational collaboration has been considered as a novel concepts in supply chain management by many researchers. in this paper two groups of internal and external factors were examined in relationship with inter-organizational collaboration in iran khodro supply chain. internal factors consist of organizational strategy and technology and inter-organizational factors refers to trust a...

organizational cynicism is one of the issues that attract the interest of behavioral scholars and scientists because of its impact on the organizational performance. the goal of this research is measuring the level of organizational cynicism in employees of qom universities. in terms of goal, this is an applied research while it is a descriptive survey-type in terms of data collection method. t...

Alexander Serenko is based at the Faculty of Business Administration, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, Canada. Nick Bontis is based at the DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. Abstract Purpose – This paper aims to explore antecedents and consequences of intra-organizational knowledge hiding. Design/methodology/approach – A model was developed and tested with data...

While effects of public policy are one of the foundations of organizational theory, less explored is how these effects may depend on other external environmental factors. We focus on how policy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to understand the growth of banking in the U.S. states, 1896-1978. Three characteristics of banks—simultaneous production and distribution, pooled intra-orga...

This article introduces the special issue on New Perspectives on the Trust-Control Nexus in Organizational Relations. Trust and control are interlinked processes commonly seen as key to reach effectiveness in interand intra-organizational relations. The relation between trust and control is, however, a complex one, and research into this relation has given rise to various and contradictory inte...

Finding human resources with the required set of skills, experience, and availability to execute an activity at a specific moment, is a socio-technical challenge for enterprises that use business-process aware systems. On an intra-organizational level, there exists an increasing body of knowledge for automated human-resource management. However, the recent pervasiveness of service-oriented clou...

Software product lines have received considerable adoption in the software industry and prove to be a very successful approach to intra-organizational software reuse. Contemporary literature on the subject, however, often presents only a single approach towards adopting a software product line. In this paper, we present an overview of different adoption approaches, different maturity levels for...

abstract background: technical, human, operational and organizational factors have been influencing the sequence of occupational accidents. among them, organizational factors play a major role in causing occupational accidents. the aim of this research was to understand the iranian safety experts’ experiences and perception of organizational factors. methods: this qualitative study was conducte...

Software product lines have received considerable adoption in the software industry and prove to be a very successful approach to intra-organizational software reuse. Contemporary literature on the subject, however, often presents only a single approach towards adopting a software product line. In this paper, we present an overview of different adoption approaches, different maturity levels for...