In today’s fast-paced and rapidly changing business environment, companies has deeply modified their strategies to integrate technology into the business planning process. Technologies are now everywhere in the firm’s value chain. Thus, it is necessary for firms to adapt their strategic process as technology is pervasively important as part of business function. This implies the need to study a...

This paper analyzes which type of individuals’ characteristics drive behaviors in a public good game, depending on strategic uncertainty. The results of the laboratory experiment emphasize that advantageous inequity aversion has a significant effect on the contribution decision but beliefs on the others’ contribution and risk aversion are the characteristics that mainly lead the contribution de...

Despite the growing importance of information technology (IT) enabled offshore sourcing, there is relatively little academic research to understand the phenomenon. In this study, conceptualizing offshore sourcing as a strategic decision, and using the path dependency theory, we present a strategic sourcing model. Next, using secondary data, we empirically test the proposed model to study the ro...

Firms are working in increasingly dynamic and un-predictable markets due to economic instability, globalisation, and disruptive technologies. The uncertainty and lack of information that accompanies strategy making in these turbulent conditions places the strategic capacity of the top management team (TMT) under stress. However, there is little accessible research that can help top teams to eva...

Previous research has emphasized the importance of employees, managers and human efforts in general in attaining operational and strategic benefits from the use of IT. This paper focuses on how human efforts influence operational and strategic benefits attained from the use of the interorganizational systems (IOSs). A conceptual model is constructed combining transaction-cost economics, resourc...

Despite the increasing sophistication of the literature on strategic consensus and the compelling arguments linking it to organizational performance, empirical research has produced mixed findings. To address this conundrum, we examine the contingent role of strategic alignment—that is, to what extent decision makers place importance on strategic priorities that are responsive to, or fit, the d...

In this study we adopt an inter-organizational view to examine virtual organizations. Thus, we understand this phenomenon as a strategic agreement between organizations that collaborate and coordinate their work through information technologies. This dimension adds greater flexibility to the strategic alliance, which in turn is beneficial for the integration of knowledge. In high technology ind...

This article describes an innovative e-business strategy planning e-valuation approach, based on adaptive algorithmic modeling methods for solving a wide class of e-business and strategic management problems. The proposed methodology is based on basic ideas and concepts of four key-field interrelated sciences, i.e. Computing Science, Applied Mathematics, Management and Economic Sciences. Furthe...

Supplying water is a concern in the world because of decline low rainfall most as result rising temperatures and increased evaporation/transpiration، which cause decreasing farming areas supplying food under high population numbers effects on them with food. This research study included determining best sites that are suitable for creating available watersheds serve region future. Through analy...