Organizational agility—defined loosely as a combination of flexibility, nimbleness, and speed— is increasingly regarded as a source of competitive advantage in today’s fiercely competitive and fast changing markets. We aim to tighten and explicate a conceptualization of organizational agility that clarifies what it is and what it is not. We theorize that agility is a bi-dimensional concept that...

Turbulence in the business environment imposed large companies or market leaders to become more agile doing business. Developing agility can be implemented many levels of organization. This paper proposes a multi-layer perspective construct by examining validity through structural equation modelling. Based on organizational behavior theory, this combining from three different perspectives agili...

This study develops a research model of how the technical, behavioral, and business capabilities of IT personnel are associated with IT infrastructure capabilities, and how the latter are associated with IT-dependent organizational agility, which is conceptualized as comprising IT-dependent system, information, and strategic agility. Analysis of crosssectional data collected from 293 IT manager...

Implementation agility in Manufacturing Systems (MS) is one of the most important objectives for nowadays MS considering the complexity of environment. The agility implementation implies new characteristics as well as new implications not considered by the previous MS concept. These are: the dynamic reconfigurability of MS structure (at the first place), the pro-activity, the emergence (as inhe...

Agile software development methods have emerged and become increasingly popular in recent years, yet the issues encountered by software development teams that strive to achieve agility using agile methods are yet to be explored systematically. Built upon a previous study that has established a set of indicators of agility, this study investigates what issues are manifested in software developme...

agility is considered the ability to respond quickly to changes and a major factor for success and survival in today's business. the purpose of this research is to offer a conceptual model using interpretive structural modeling(ism). to this end after reviewing literature and theoretical background, the indices related to achieving agility via information technology (it) have been identifi...