In the era of New Economy, knowledge creation has been regarded as the main source of organization’s competitive advantage. Based on the assumption that knowledge is originally generated and constructed from organizational members, this paper aims to explore how knowledge is constructed and created in organizations with the existence of organizational structure and social structure. On the “har...

The growing prominence of virtual organizations, such as Dell and Amazon.Com, has demonstrated the potential for virtual governance structures to achieve greater competitiveness than their more traditional counterparts. The designs of such organizations typically support three important characteristics: virtual customer interaction, virtual sourcing of complementary resources and assets from a ...

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) sector is thriving in India but before the IteS market can really open out beyond the call centre model of business, sparks of trade unionism are now visible in the BPO and call centre industry in India. Nevertheless, there is a widely held view that important changes are occurring in the character of employee attitudes and it is argued that employees’ collect...

This paper explores the degree and nature of the research interaction between the academic fields of Information Technology, Organization, and Organizational Change. This is done so as to see if, and how, the highly digitized modern business world is reflected in related research. The paper analyses 9.669 articles published in 1995-2006 that are derived from major journals within each field. Th...

This paper explores the degree and nature of the research interaction between the academic fields of Information Technology, Organization and Organizational Change (OC). The paper analyses 9,669 articles published in 1995-2006 derived from major journals within each field. The articles are then reviewed with the bibliometric methods: frequency, cross-references, co-citation, shared references a...

Knowledge management labels a fairly heterogeneous cluster of ideas. The concept can be traced to the emergence of communications technologies that create access to computerized networks that allows for (almost) real-time interaction, regardless of physical distance. These technologies includes the internet, intranets, e-mail, and the world wide web. The term also covers currents that draw upon...

n the last few years, the applicability and functionality of systems for collaboration support has expanded, leading to their growing application in cooperation, communication, and organizational processes. This expansion provides opportunities to study their social, business and technical impacts. Usually an integration of novel emerging technologies with existing organizational practices is v...

Configuration management is an important aspect of an efficient development process. As with other aspects of software development, configuration management happens in the presence of social and organizational constraints. The various goals of configuration management (stability, developer independence and interaction, etc.) sometimes conflict with each other. This paper presents three configur...

By adopting signaling theory as the overarching framework and integrating selfdetermination theory, we examined the signaling function of task i-deals, financial i-deals, and their interaction. Across three studies with varying measures, we found that task i-deals, independently and jointly with financial i-deals, conveyed a positive message regarding competence in that they were positively rel...

Intellectual capital has been described as intangible assets that may be used as a source of sustainable competitive advantage. However, intellectual capital components have to interact, to create value. Previous studies demonstrate that intellectual capital is positively and significantly associated with organizational performance. Our aim is to consolidate these findings, examining the inter-...