OBJECTIVE We analysed the integrated planning model adopted by the Italian region Emilia Romagna in year 2000 to cover the entire range of treatment of cardiovascular disease. This model, called "hub and spoke", provides for the transfer of patient care and treatment from peripheral units (the spokes) to central units (the hubs) once a certain complexity threshold has been reached. METHODS We...

This paper reports on an ongoing research project into organisational learning in virtual organisations using the Organisational Learning Evaluation Cycle developed by Gasston and Halloran (1999). A review of the literature shows that considerable research has been done in the area of organisational learning, however, the concepts are mainly focused on traditional organisational forms and are d...

in this paper a fuzzy analytical network process model for supporting the vendor selection process in strategic situations is suggested. first, the vendor evaluation problem is putting together by use of the multi-criteria decision-making (mcdm) approach and a five-step hybrid process, which incorporates the technique of fuzzy analytical network process. then the modified topsis (technique for ...

The information system is strongly sensitive to strategic evolutions of the enterprise: organisational change, change of objectives, modified variety, new objects and business processes, etc. With the objective to control strategic alignment of information systems, we propose an approach based on our extended enterprise meta-model ISO/DSI 19440. This extension is borrowed from the COBIT framewo...

This paper presents a model for organisational information processing (OIP model) which is used to introduce a theoretical frame for the analysis of the potentials of information and communication technologies, tools and systems to support organisations in organisational information processing. Apart from the well known analysis of individual information processing in the categories of informat...

IS Leadership is distinctive from leadership in general because of the special interface between Information Technology and business. As the increasing complexity and interdependence in the Information Systems Development (ISD) context, this study proposes to examine the IS leadership from a distributed team level. Based upon Social Interdependence Theory, we argue that the inherent high level ...

The paper explores the interdependence of FDI between India and ASEAN-5 countries namely, namely Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand, at the individual and group level. The empirical analysis is based on time series cointegration and causality test over the period 1970-2008. The findings suggest the presence of interdependence of FDI between India and ASEAN-5 countries. The...

The main focus of this chapter is to explore the concept “organisational commitment”. The discussion includes the following aspects: theoretical background; definition of the concept; adopted model for this study, dimensions of organisational commitment; development of organisational commitment; factors affecting the employees’ commitment; the effects of commitment; and the management of organi...

This paper deals with Organisational Memory Systems (OMS) which are seen as a new kind of information systems. OMS result from the application of advanced database and network technologies to support Organisational Memory concepts and approaches. First, the notion of OMS, the origin of these systems, their theoretical background and the evolution of data base use are described. Then Intranet te...