Inertia and routines are important organizational characteristics affecting organizations’ evolution. Empirical research has found mixed results concerning the question whether change establishes change routines that make organizations more malleable or whether transformations inhibit further alterations. Reasons for these results are analyzed in this paper by means of a case study of organizat...

— This paper investigates the effectiveness of reducing errors in management accounting systems with respect to organizational performance. In particular, different basic design options of management accounting systems of how to improve the information base by measurements of actual values are analyzed in different organizational contexts. The paper applies an agent-based simulation based on th...

The speed of change in competitive environments has prompted firms to develop processes directed at enabling organizational adaptation. This is captured by the concept of dynamic capabilities.We focus on a particular form of business organization, that is, the family firm. Specifically, we argue that knowledge integration—a dynamic capability through which family members’ specialized knowledge ...

Many biological and cognitive systems do not operate deep within one or other regime of activity. Instead, they are poised at critical points located at transitions of their parameter space. The pervasiveness of criticality suggests that there may be general principles inducing this behaviour, yet there is no well-founded theory for understanding how criticality is found at a wide range of leve...

When considering the adaptive dynamics of organizations, it is important to account for the full ecology of organizational adaptation, including not only the possibility of learning and adaptation of a given behavior, but the internal selection over some population of routines and behaviors as well. In developing such a conceptual framework, it is necessary to distinguish between the underlying...

With thousands of miles of unprotected borders, tens of thousands of critical power generating plants, chemical processing units and other hazardous manufacturing facilities, and hundreds of thousands of miles unprotected roads and rail, electric, gas, and telecommunications lines, the United States is impossible to protect completely against terrorist attack. In addition to military action aga...

a r t i c l e i n f o The authors propose a mediated moderation model that links marketing capability from an outside-in perspective, organizational adaptation mechanism exploitation and exploration, organizational structural factors, and new product development (NPD) performance. The model is tested using survey data from USA and China. The results suggest that marketing capability is positive...

OBJECTIVE To describe the perceptions of diverse professionals involved in computerized physician order entry (POE) at sites where POE has been successfully implemented and to identify differences between teaching and nonteaching hospitals. DESIGN A multidisciplinary team used observation, focus groups, and interviews with clinical, administrative, and information technology staff to gather d...

The authors propose a business-oriented approach to support accurate and dynamic user-role assignments for the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) model. Their model, called Business-Driven Role Based Access Control (BD-RBAC), is composed of three layers. The first layer extends the RBAC model with the concepts of business roles, system roles, credentials, and users’ capabilities. The second layer...