Business leaders who enable learning whether through regular training needs assessments or externally sourced scientific advice to support product development efforts contribute to organizational effectiveness. While the drivers of learning capacity and their effects on the business are well documented in large firms, little is known about this issue in Asian small and medium-sized enterprises ...

Agile methods are a departure from plan-driven traditional approaches, where the focus is on generating early releases of working software using collaborative techniques, code refactoring, and on-site customer involvement. Research and surveys have shown that agile methodologies are an efficient way of producing software with significant advantages in production costs, time-to-market, complexit...

This chapter introduces state-of-the-art computational methods which discover lethal proteins from Protein Interaction Networks (PINs). Lethal proteins are an interesting subject in understanding the minimal condition for cellular development and survival. A dysfunctional research subject or absence of a lethal protein would result in fatality of the cell. Biological experiments have been condu...

Position The role of humans in the software development process must be studied in the context of their organizational connguration. The organizational structure within which the process executes has a profound effect on its outcome. The communication and interaction problems associated with human involvement in development cannot be addressed by process improvement alone. The solution must inc...

There is an increasing need and interest for organizations to collaborate with internal and external partners on a global scale for creating software-based products and services. Potential risks and di↵erent strategies need to be addressed when setting up such collaborations. Aspects such as cultural and social features, coordination, infrastructure, organizational change processes, or communic...

Over the past decade our research group at the University of Washington has investigated a number of techniques for improving end-user customization and programming. Much of this work has been reported in the AI literature, and we seek to participate in the Second Workshop on End-User Software Engineering in order to expand our understanding of existing work and alternative approaches.

this paper is based on the recent development to literature on organizational culture and its role in management thory and practices. based on the review of literature, both management theories and organizational culture the author finds significant interrelation and interaction between the management theory and the systems of shared values, norms and behaviors held by the people in a given org...

There is an increasing need for organizations to collaborate with internal and external partners on a global scale for creating software-based products and services. Many aspects and risks need to be addressed when setting up such global collaborations. Different types of collaborations such as engineering collaborations or innovation-focused collaborations need to be considered. Further aspect...

This study investigates the effects of financial management practices and their role in economical development and organizational performance. Economic environment is changing rapidly and this change is characterised by such phenomena as the globalization, changing customer and investor demands, ever-increasing product-market competition. To compete successfully in this environment organization...

This study investigates the effects of financial management practices and their role in economical development and organizational performance. Economic environment is changing rapidly and this change is characterised by such phenomena as the globalization, changing customer and investor demands, ever-increasing product-market competition. To compete successfully in this environment organization...