This article explores how different types of managers respond to large-scale organizational change and what factors underpin differences in management attitudes and reactions. Through qualitative analysis of the introduction of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in two case study organizations, the authors argue that variations in managerial responses to organizational change relate to ...

Previous research provides evidence that the ‘entertaining shopping experience’ is influenced by dependent variables of retailer factors and customer factors. Yet few studies have investigated the moderating effect of transportation mode factors upon retailer factors and customer factors. This paper addresses these issues in context of the looming mobility concerns that accompany Australia’s fa...

social capital is a new concept that’s been important in management literature in recent years. the importance of this concept has led to increase the researchers’ trends to develop models and diagnose new indexes. the main object of this research is exploring and designing a model to achieve foregoing goal. social capital development in universities and higher education centers as fundamental ...

In this paper, we present a variant of Datalog language (we call it Datalog ) able to deal with weights on ground facts and to consequently compute a feedback result for the goal satisfaction. The weights are chosen from a proper c-semiring. In our context, our goal is to use this language as a semantic foundation for languages for expressing trust relationships. As a matter of fact, many of th...

Sharing sensitive information across security domains is an important requirement for knowledge intensive collaborative work, but such sharing may impose risks on security and privacy integrity. Research has increasingly recognized the role of trust in minimizing the risk of information sharing across untrusted or unknown entities. To this extent, trust negotiations[1][3][15][20] have emerged a...

Grounded Theory provides a useful approach for eliciting and justifying subjective characteristics of individuals. A Grounded Theory analysis is carried on individuals who share pictures, with a view to developing a trust management policy model of indiscretion regarding the sharing of photographs.

Achieving a better rank online is often costly. Is the effect of ranking different for mobile devices and traditional PC? This study empirically examines the ranking effect across different device types in an ecommerce environment. With over 4 million observations from Tweaker.net, the largest shopbot in Netherlands, we estimated the ranking effect between mobile and PC. Surprisingly, and contr...

Lately, business practices and researches have been focused on understanding a firm‟s position, especially in network environment, where the essence of network manifests the complexity. Therefore, it is hard to identify positions, because all firms with multiple interrelations were characterized by multilayer network organizations and multilateral interactions. This study proposes a quantitativ...

This paper focuses on the role of managerial cognition as a source of heterogeneity in firm strategies and performance. We link differences in mental models to differences in decision rules and performance in a management simulation. Our results show more accurate mental models lead to better decision rules and higher performance. We also find that decision makers do not need accurate knowledge...

In developing information technology, you want assurance that systems are secure and reliable. Correctness is an attribute that one strives for in order to achieve those goals, but you cannot have assurance or security without correctness. We discuss methods used to achieve correctness, focusing on weaknesses and approaches that management might take to increase belief in correctness. Formal me...