To improve the overall efficiency, from a supply chain perspective, manufactures are focusing their activities around a limited number of coreprocesses. Consequently the internal processing degree is reduced. When the degree of internal processing is reduced, the organizational balance between manufacturing processes and cross-organizational integration processes shifts, and this is reflected i...

Introduction Among organizational resources, human resources are known as one of the most important assets of any organization. Managers should develop effective strategies to achieve competitive advantages through employees. These advantages will be reached when employees try their best to achieve organizational objectives. There are some factors influence employees attempts in organizations. ...

Organizational culture is the main contextual factor that both directly and indirectly affects knowledge sharing among employees. There is no empirical research so far conducted on organizational culture of CBE that can inform selection of appropriate solutions from existing theoretical research. Our investigation found that risk avoidance is a key dimension of organizational culture that promo...

An important new stream of thought stressing the importance of organizational fluidity has emerged in recent years. It represents a reaction to the increasing complexity and environmental turbulence that organizations have to master. The solutions proposed are highly flexible and fluid organizational forms, based on relentlessly changing templates, quick improvisation, and ad hoc responses. Thi...

The influence of IT investments on organizational performance is revisited. Bounded rationality, organizational controls, and political forces may constrain optimal selection of inputs and appropriate substitution between inputs. For example, firms may not be able to attain an optimal level of IT by substituting IT for labor (for reasons such as pressure from the labor union). Besides estimatin...