Growth has been described as the essence of entrepreneurship. Organizational ecologists theorize an inevitable progression from growth through maturity, revival, and eventually decline. During the organizational life cycle entrepreneurs choose between growth, stability, or retrenchment strategies to overcome deteriorating trends in performance. Using survey data, this study tests a contingency ...

In this paper, we present a process for bringing the organizational training department of a software development organization closer to the development projects. We envision an organizational training department that can proactively help the development projects in reducing their defect rate. To achieve this goal we take advantage of the available data at CMMI maturity level 3 organizations. W...

Most of the empirical evidence on the effectiveness of information systems and their determinants is confined to the use of data from Western countries. Evidence from other environments, where the social, economic, and cultural characteristics vary, is needed before generalizations can be made. This paper reports on an investigation designed to explore the relationship of three organizational f...

The ongoing high relevance of business intelligence (BI) for the management and competitiveness of organizations requires a continuous, transparent, and detailed assessment of existing BI solutions in the enterprise. This paper presents a BI maturity model (called biMM) that has been developed and refined over years. It is used for both, in surveys to determine the overall BI maturity in German...

In spite of being an important software activity, many software organizations present difficulties in managing risks. This happens mainly due to their low maturity level, and because Risk Management is a complex and knowledge intensive task that requires experienced project managers, which many times are not available. In order to overcome this barrier, novice software engineers must learn how ...

It is increasingly evident that there is no one approach or methodology to software development that suits all types of software projects even at the organizational level. While modern software methodologies offer advice on the development phases of software, they do not usually offer any guidance in terms of how we can effectively select or tailor an approach that is a good fit from an organiz...

The maturity model in Information Systems (IS) research continues to grow in popularity, as an approach to evaluating and improving an organization's capabilities. In recent years, numerous maturity model contributions have been made; for example, in the areas of IT/business alignment, project management, and information life cycle management. However, concerns are expressed in the literature r...

Managers and decision makers need to transform their organizational routines and structures to meet the challenges of the digital age. Even though organizational change is by no means a new topic, many companies struggle to recognize and make sense of the often very disruptive changes affecting all industries. In order to foster an understanding of the phenomenon and the development of a digita...

Background: Social business process management is an integration of social software into the business process management (BPM). Its main goal is to overcome the limitations of classical BPM by applying social software principles within the BPM lifecycle. Since BPM is a holistic discipline it is important to also include cultural and social aspects into BPM studies. Objectives: The main aim of t...