In this paper, we intend to propose a novel pathway for achieving systems thinking—a prerequisite for strategic management—in the context of collaborative governance. This novel pathway, namely an interpretive-emergent-holistic approach, is grounded in complex adaptive systems framework and aimed at leveraging the computational power of today’s information technology in providing rigorous, syst...

Strategic alliances between ERP software vendors, their implementation partners and clients, for knowledge sharing and integrated knowledge management across the ERP life-cycle, hold promise for leveraging scarce expertise and human resources, thereby streamlining implementation and promoting growth of the market. SAP’s significant market presence offers a unique opportunity to encourage such a...

In real-time collaborative editing systems, users create a shared document by issuing insert, delete, and undo operations on their local replica anytime and anywhere. Data consistency issues arise due to concurrent editing conflicts. Traditional consistency models put restrictions on editing operations updating different portions of a shared document, which is unnecessary for many editing scena...

Information systems (IS) offshoring has become a widespread practice and a strategic sourcing choice for many firms. While much has been written by researchers about the factors that lead to successful offshoring arrangements from the client's viewpoint, the vendor's perspective has been largely scarce. The vendor perspective is equally important as offshore IS vendors need to make important de...

this paper is to identify the determinants of risk management and measure its impact on strategic management in tondgooyan petrochemical company during 2013-2014 in mahshahr city. the research method used is a descriptive-survey one. the population contains 200 employees. to test the hypotheses, the researcher uses a questionnaire consisted of 45 questions. the results are tested by kolmogorov-...

Professional education and training plays a crucial role for successful transfer of innovative Software Engineering technologies and for achieving long-term strategic goals of an organization. We describe how empirically validated knowledge related to methods, tools, and techniques is organized and maintained in an organizational unit called Experience Factory. Emphasis of the paper is to descr...

Because of the general lack of multi-level hospital management collaboration performance effectiveness research, this paper proposes a multi-level hospital management Synergy Entropy-House of Quality (HoQ) Measurement Model by innovatively combining the House of Quality (HoQ) measure model with a Synergy Entropy computing principle. Triangular fuzzy functions are used to determine the importanc...