This research examines an entertainment website, Jezebel: Celebrity, Sex, Fashion for Women (www.jezebel.com), to understand how the site’s use of a virtual newsroom and computer mediated communication influences organizational dynamics and culture. By employing a case study of Jezebel.com, this research used in-depth interviews and observations to examine the role of instant messaging (IM) in ...

This chapter introduces a formal framework for modeling and analys is of organizations. It allows representing and reasoning about all important aspects of artificial and human organizations structured in a number of views, including performance-oriented, process-oriented, powerand interaction-related aspects. The framework provides means to model formal (pre)defined organizational structures a...

The CEC GOAL Project (Esprit 6283) aims to develop generic software tools to support inter-organizational project management. Some distinguishing characteristics of inter-organizational projects are that they are collaborative, decentralised and heterogeneous. This means that generic issues in project management (such as risk and uncertainty) take on an extra dimension, and there are many new p...

International organizations are increasingly focusing on organizational learning. The experience accumulated by development agencies throughout the world has become a source of organizational knowledge, which, according to Nonaka, is transferred through processes of socialization and externalization. Based upon three case studies and in-depth interviewing of World Bank managers and evaluators o...

Leader-member exchange (LMX) represents the quality of interaction between leaders and members of a work unit, such as the information system function within an organization. LMX is expected to improve organizational citizenship behavior, beneficial behaviors not explicitly rewarded, but prior research has failed to establish this link satisfactorily. To determine the influence of LMX in the IS...

Digital libraries (DLs) are the focus of professional movements in the medical, legal, and scholarly communities. DLs are being used increasingly nationwide in the legal profession for research; computer-integrated court reporting; and for trial presentations of multimedia documents and evidence photos. In this paper, we present results of a study which contributes to DL research by examining s...

This paper presents an empirical study that examines the effects of dynamic IT capability and organizational culture on firm performance. More specifically, this study investigates the main effects of dynamic IT capability on firm performance, the main effects of organizational culture on firm performance, and the interaction effects between the two factors on firm performance. Adopting the Res...

The reuse of knowledge has a significant impact on an organization’s performance and the part it plays in a competitive environment. It is a process in which knowledge is an integral part of the organization, through the interaction between people-driven aspects such as change management and organizational culture; technological aspects such as systems, information and communication technologie...

The management of web service access is a great challenge primarily in organizations with a high number of web services and various sorts of access authorization. Both organizational and technical hurdles have to be overcome. Technical barriers arise by different security requirements across various systems under consideration of economic conditions. Complex service interaction may be mentioned...

This study investigates the effects of information technology (IT) on exploration and exploitation in organizational learning (OL). We use qualitative evidence from previously published case studies of a single organization to extend an earlier computational model of organizational learning (March 1991) by introducing IT-enabled learning mechanisms: communication technology (e-mail), knowledge ...