d: m.a. of business management. university of isfahan . [email protected] e: isfahan university of medical sciences , [email protected] knowledge as one of the greatest factors in creating value and competitive advantage, has led organizations to show great tendency toward programs of knowledge management. understanding the relationship between infrastructural capabilities and process c...

d: M.A. of Business Management. University of Isfahan . [email protected] e: Isfahan University of Medical Sciences , [email protected] Knowledge as one of the greatest factors in creating value and competitive advantage, has led organizations to show great tendency toward programs of knowledge management. Understanding the relationship between infrastructural capabilities and process c...

The main objective of this paper is to investigate and identify the main determinants of successful knowledge management (KM) programs. We draw upon the institutional theory and the theory of technology assimilation to develop an integrative model of KM success that clarifies the role of information technology (IT) in relation to other important KM infrastructural capabilities and to KM process...

For many firms, radio frequency identification (RFID) suggests not only a new alternative to existing tracking methods but also a means to a range of previously cost-prohibitive internal control and supply chain coordination innovations. In any event, and even in light of possible external pressures to adopt, the full potential of RFID for an individual firm must ultimately be viewed in conside...

BACKGROUND The effectiveness of comprehensive stroke center (CSC) capabilities on stroke mortality remains uncertain. We performed a nationwide study to examine whether CSC capabilities influenced in-hospital mortality of patients with ischemic and hemorrhagic stroke. METHODS AND RESULTS Of the 1,369 certified training institutions in Japan, 749 hospitals responded to a questionnaire survey r...

Pedestrians are highly heterogeneous with regards to their physical capabilities and preferences, which in turn determine their individual infrastructural needs (Saelens et al. 2003, Millonig 2006). Other than in current pedestrian navigation systems, therefore, the possibility to compute personalized walking routes would be desirable, a precondition of which, however, is to derive detailed use...

It is widely accepted that effective KM requires both infrastructural and process capabilities. However, very little research has been conducted to understand how either kind of capabilities are developed. In this paper, we focus on KM process capabilities, identify and empirically examine the important factors in that influence the development of KM process capabilities. Particularly, relying ...

The management of metamodels is supported by runtime environments that enforce the well-formedness of (meta-)model instances. Beyond this basic functionality, additional capabilities are needed in order to successfully establish a toolchain for Model-Driven Software Engineering. We focus on two such capabilities: transactions and efficient evaluation of invariants, not in the usual context of d...

The autonomous capabilities of Internet mobile agents are one of their great attractions, yet leave them at the mercy of ill-intending agent platforms. We have devised an infrastructural strategy that allows mobile agent users to delegate responsibility to a trusted third party for the safe management of mobile agents they deploy onto the Internet. Our infrastructural approach is based on a Mob...

We discus some frequently neglected issues relating to corporate communication infrastructures. The perception of services like e-mail as infrastructural -and thus less interesting -lies at the heart of corporate ignorance regarding their strategic capabilities. This may cause major problems in the near future, when inadequate communication infrastructures may hamper the successful uptake of st...