The dynamism and heterogeneity of pervasive systems necessitates a management system that automates enforcement of administrator and organization guidelines. Policy-based management, using Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules, is a suitable approach in which rules dictate actions to be executed when specified events and conditions are observed. Actions in these rules may fail during execution due...

It has been over a decade since organizational researchers began seriously grappling with the phenomenon of multiteam systems (MTSs) as an organizational form spanning traditional team and organizational boundaries. The MTS concept has been met with great enthusiasm as an organizational form that solves both theoretical and practical challenges. However, the development of the MTS domain has be...

Introduction At one level, performance support can be described as the tools and resources we use to be successful. Performance support means our tools, our habits, our tricks-of-the-trade, our colleagues, our reference materials, our office environment: all the resources we rely upon and organize to help us become successful in our work. As an individual, I acquire and build tools for myself; ...

Nanomaterial science and design have shifted from generating single passive nanoparticles to more complex and adaptive multi-component nanohybrids. These adaptive nanohybrids (ANHs) are designed to simultaneously perform multiple functions, while actively responding to the surrounding environment. ANHs are engineered for use as drug delivery carriers, in tissue-engineered templates and scaffold...

Past studies on the effects of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) scores firm performance have found mixed support. To further unpack these findings, we focus industry-level dynamism predictability ESG sales investor expectations prospects growth. Dynamism (predictability) is based standard error (R-squared) industry ratings regressed sales. Taking an investor’s perspective, a forward-...

This research develops the notion of environmental fit and flexibility and illustrates the importance of such fit empirically using survey data from 101 manufacturing firms. Two dimensions of environmental dynamism are identified and the fit between them and different approaches to flexibility are assessed. Hierarchical regressions provide evidence that flexibility is a stronger predictor of pe...

The global financial crisis at the end of 2007 financially influenced various countries, including Indonesia. Because Indonesia achieved highest growth in the Southeast Asia region during the recession, global investors shift their investment in Indonesia market. Therefore, it is very important to explore the stock dynamism in Indonesia. We propose a hybrid approach of fuzzy theorem, support ve...

This paper describes an empirical study of IT governance processes in complex organizations under conditions of environmental dynamism. Rooted in competing theories of organizational decisionmaking and knowledge-sharing, and based on a case study investigation of large, distributed organizations, this study examines the design and effectiveness of IT governance processes from both rational-anal...

Content-based Publish/subscribe systems (CBPS) is a simple yet powerful communication paradigm. Its content-centric nature is suitable for a wide spectrum of today’s content-centric applications such as stock market quote exchange, remote monitoring and surveillance, RSS news feed, and online gaming. As the trend shows that the amount of information along with its producers become astonishingly...

This study extends research on entrepreneurial behavior by investigating the relationship between the marketing strategy innovativeness (MSI) and new product performance in technology-based new ventures in China. Specifically, premised on contingent resource-based view we argue that MSI is a firm capability that must be bundled with external managerial relationships and be deployed in the appro...