In today’s competitive arena, knowledge and intellectual assets management seems to be the best answer when looking to gain a competitive edge. Furthermore, traditional approaches to knowledge management based on a "single company perspective" are becoming limited; more frequently the problem is to manage “inter-organizational “collaborations, projects and temporary structures. It is thus neces...

The Human Dynamics research group at the MIT Media Laboratory has demonstrated that wearable technology can be used to characterize face-to-face interactions, measure individual and collective patterns of human behavior, and automatically map out a company's de facto organizational chart (Choudhury & Pentland, 2003; Pentland, 2006; Olguin-Olguin et al., 2009a, 2009b). This capability can be an ...

24 Iteach the course Organizational Behavior to undergraduates in the School of Business at Indiana University Southeast, a regional campus in the IU system. In 1999, I became interested in the possibilities of using Internet technology in my courses. According to many studies, differences in media used to provide lectures make no difference in student outcomes. (See the sidebar “Some Reviews o...

This paper challenges the tendency of the information systems (IS) literature to subsume IS innovation in processes of organizational change, either with the role of the ‘enabler’ of organizational objectives, or as an instrument appropriated by situated organizational actors. Using institutionalist theory, the relationship between information systems development and organizational transformati...

The hierarchy of information units and interactions in managing of Organizational Systems is ruther complicated. Interactions between departments of different levels of hierarchy are named "co-ordination" (Mesarovic, Mako, Takahara, 1970). This paper deals with the coordination as the "vertical" informational interfaces between the units called "elementary management cycles" which compose the s...

Actors who support dissimilar institutional models can overcome conflict and move toward mutually beneficial coexistence. To see how, we studied the emergence of venture philanthropy, a rationalized approach to organizational philanthropy in Europe. Our analysis leverages multiple sources of data and focuses on field-configuring events as settings for interactions. We show how convening—bringin...

Introduction To discover the underlying principles that translate genomic information to observed phenotypes (e.g., diseases) the study of global properties of cellular networks is essential. Any perturbation to the network, originated by a virus or drug, impacts not just the locally targeted subnetwork but spreads through out the network. This global cascading damage spreading in cellular netw...

3 For my daughter, Alyssa, and her future 4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to thank God, for the gifts he has given me that allow me to walk this path and complete this journey. I am truly thankful for all the gifts He has given me. I need to thank my family, Missy and my daughter, Alyssa, for their patience, support and sacrifices they have made. I also need to thank my most active advisors Dr. ...

This paper introduces a preliminary study on affective effects of Spoken Dialog-Based Language Learning Game (DB-LLG) currently under the development in our research group. DBLLG is an educational game designed for language learners to convey interactive conversations with in-game characters in interactive immersive environments, such as post office, library, shops, on the street, etc. Students...

There is a lack of work focusing on i* models pre-traceability. Most of traceability work on i* models is centered on forward or backward traceability, i.e., tracing i* models to design models or design models to i* models. It seems that the stakeholders' needs and the organizational process are first-class citizens, but the requirements engineering process is not. We present in this paper our ...