Since organizational homogeneity may reduce or eliminate agency problems, understanding its sources is important for organization design and for the trade-off between firms and markets. This paper shows that organizational homogeneity may develop because people prefer to hire others with similar beliefs, since they will take the ‘right’ decisions, and because these employees subsequently develo...

Knowledge and understanding of success and failure factors, as well as how to measure them and the interactions between these factors have great importance for project management effectiveness. Project success and failure is a question of perception and the criteria could vary from project to project A project that has been perceived to be a failure by one stakeholder may be perceived as a succ...

Job, organizational and individual predictors of a successful implementation of an ergonomic training program were evaluated in a single-case study. The conceptual model of learning transfer of Baldwin and Ford (1988) was adapted for an ergonomic context. 116 employees in a large production company underwent a comprehensive ergonomic training. Transfer of training into practice was measured by ...

It has often been argued that systems' failure may result from inadequacies in the treatment of organizational issues, but there is little consensus on what is meant by the term inadequate treatment and how it influences the systems' success. To test several theoretically plausible hypotheses. A questionnaire was mailed to senior IS executives and 344 valid responses were received. The results ...

Significance of inter-organizational information systems (IOSs) in inter-organizational relationship (IOR) has been highlighted recently. IOSs are not only technical solutions to enhance communication across organizations, but they are also supporters and enablers of cooperation as well as symbols of formal IORs. The success or failure of these systems can have severe effects on cooperative rel...

This article presents a Decision Support System which focuses on an important organizational context: maintenance decisions. Usually, a specific management system is required to deal with data on failure, reliability, maintainability and availability regarding equipment. The maintenance context is surrounded by uncertainty and does not provide a clear profit from its activities, and thus requir...

Organizational Nimbleness and Operational Policies: The Case of Optimal Control of Maintenance Under Uncertainty ALI DOGRAMACI and SURESH SETHI Abstract The speed with which an organization takes action against unplanned failure and scrapping of its capital equipment is used as a measure of organizational nimbleness. Operational decisions at the plant level are studied in the setting of the opt...

Culture is assumed to play a pivotal role in business success and failure. In contrast to prevailing top-down perspectives, we propose an approach to studying culture that accounts for myriad organizational subcultures, how individuals fit into those subcultures, and the causes and consequences of shifts in culture and cultural fit. We propose that the language through which people communicate ...

Introduction: Recent studies on change agency and organizational failure have significantly broadened the behavior perspective individual experiences, however, underlying mechanism for leaders’ influential remains a relatively underspecified area.