Knowledge has become a substantial intangible asset of firms, and perhaps their most critical resource. As such knowledge management has emerged as a critical research field for Information Systems (IS). This paper addresses the need for additional research relating to the creation of knowledge in an organizational context. We leverage knowledge creation through use of a surrogate, the process ...

Broadband access plays a major role for the economic growth and for the social and cultural development of urban and rural areas. Market failure within the broadband sector emerges often in regions with a low density of population and weak economic conditions. A provision of broadband infrastructure and services in such areas is not attractive to private investments because of a low or even neg...

This paper uses the case of Russia in the 1990s to demonstrate the utility of approaching transitional regimes not just as emerging democracies but as failed or unconsolidated authoritarian regimes. Even for many competitive or democratic regimes, it is essential to focus not just on the development of constitutions, civil society, or party systems, but on the success or failure of efforts to b...

organizational culture has a considerable impact on investment and acceptance of a new technology system such as knowledge management and especially it can be led to success or failure of knowledge management programs in organization. according to scientific evidences, human characteristics are effective on knowledge management and the process of knowledge management by people contains their pe...

There is a need for research to identify the factors contributing high failure rate in global projects. If individual,organizational, and cannot account why half of all projects failed, there may be hidden causes.

the phenomenon of war has always caused redefining new scientific horizons and areas in societies, which next generations can use them too. because of threatening the entity of a nation, it causes implementing all mental, intellectual and practical strengths of a community, to be used. one of the most used knowledge's in the war, has been management. on the other hand, the dominant organiz...

Most of existing literature pertaining to service failures and recovery strategies, while aiming at helping service providers determine their best recovery strategies, focuses on how customers respond to service failures. The real determinants of the strategies for those providers per se are seldom dealt with. This study proposes a framework linking service failure types and recovery strategies...

While the literature on organizational change is largely silent concerning issues of loss and grief, those studies that have addressed these dynamics suggest they can be understood as instances of organizational death (Blau, 2006, 2007, 2008; Harris & Sutton, 1986; Hazen, 2008; Marks & Mirvis, 2001; Marris, 1974; Sutton, 1983, 1987; Zell, 2003). However, conceptualization of organizational deat...