COBIT is a well-known framework for IT governance, and provides an extensive list of control objectives for IT managers. However, anecdotal evidence shows that many organizations that use COBIT do not implement the entire framework. Instead, they focus their efforts on only some of COBIT’s control objectives. We argue that this could be due to the bounded rationality of IT managers, which affec...

Manufacturing flexibility is the ability of a manufacturing system to cope with environmental changes effectively and efficiently. Most operation managers cannot provide exact numerical values to express opinions based on human perception due to ill defined and ambiguity of flexibility assessment. However, fuzzy logic provides a useful tool to deal with problems in which the phenomena are impre...

The current article argues that taking subjective theories of both the rater and ratee into consideration contributes to a deeper understanding of leadership evaluations. In the present study, individuals’ pre-existing implicit personality theory (Dweck, 1996) was measured in an organizational setting and was identified as a moderating variable for leadership assessments (108 participants). It ...

The paper presents an integrated framework for IT-enabled organizational innovations. The framework highlights the factors that affect the effective introduction of knowledge and information systems to become organizational innovations. It conceptualizes the innovation process as an open system and takes into consideration knowledge management and performance evaluation. The rationale for this ...

Although there has been considerable improvement in delivering on IT projects in the past decade, successful ones are still considered the exception rather than the rule. Many factors have contributed to this dismal IT project track record, but none is more to blame than a lack of leadership. Conceptually, leadership and management theories have antithetical premises. But principally, they are ...

Risk managers operate in the space of risk and returns, constrained by financial market regulations. How can risk managers assess risk associated with changing regulatory structures, given that theories about the relationship between risk and return are much more developed than theories about the determinants of regulatory constraints? To help risk managers develop insight and predictive abilit...

While firm growth critically depends on financing ability and access to external capital, the operations management literature seldom considers the effects of financial constraints on the firms’ operational decisions. Another critical assumption in traditional operations models is that corporate managers always act in the firm owners’ best interests. Managers are, however, agents of the owners ...

Collaborative Networks (CNs) enhance the preparedness of their participants to promptly form Virtual Organisations (VOs) that are able to successfully tender for large scale and distributed projects. However, the CN efficiency essentially depends on the ability of its managers to match and customise available reference models but often, also to create new project activities. Thus, given a parti...

The increase in complexity of software development has become critical to the organizations to comprehensively identify and manage the risks involved in the software development projects. In identifying and further developing the projects, project managers must be aware of the risks or inherent risks affecting the projects. This paper presents empirical findings on the risk factors that signifi...