faculties’ empowerment is one of the effective tools for increasing productivity and optimum use of their individual and group abilities and capacities to reach organizational goals. organizational culture is the main component of decision making in universities and one of the requirements of psychological empowerment (i.e. meaning, competence, self-determination, trust, impact). given the impo...

The organizational paradigm of maximal division of labor is loosing ground. From business process redesign and sociotechnical systems theory, methods have been suggested to redesign organizations. Many redesign projects, however, do not yield the desired outcomes. This paper shows that the progression of fundamental change is related to the management of the change process. Research in forty-ei...

information technology is a critical tool for companies to achieve the competitive advantage and organizational innovation. it capability provides an appropriate opportunity for retailers to improve their relationships with customers and progress firms’ performance. comes with advances in technology, retail industry by using information technology has changed its business process from tradition...

Organizational agility has recently received a great deal of attention as it is seen as a significant business capability which allows firms to respond flexibly to today’s rapidly changing business environment. However, it is still unclear as to how and why specific information technology (IT) investments can enable organizational agility and thus lead to a firm’s long-term competitive success....

This contribution focuses on ‘alliancing capability’ which describes a specific form of dynamic capabilities. ‘Alliancing capabilitiy’ are characterized by corporate processes, positions (asset combinations), and paths. The specific interdependence of these three ‘P’, while setting up alliances, characterizes a specific dynamic capability of a corporation. Derived from past research it could be...

The SEI’s Capability Maturity Model for Software has popularized the notion of measuring the software process maturity of organizations. ISO’s SPICE project is currently creating a set of international standards for software process management that harmonize existing approaches. One of the objectives is to create a way of measuring process capability, while not using a specific approach such as...

For many firms, producing information, knowledge, and enhancing learning capability have become the primary basis of competitive advantage. A review of organizational learning theory identifies two approaches: (1) those that treat symbolic information processing as fundamental to learning, and (2) those that view the situated nature of cognition as fundamental. After noting that the former is i...

many previous studies used leader - member exchange to explain the quality relationship between employees and supervisors. however, in previous studies, the mechanism of this theory in creativity is not so clear. thus, this study defines the role of leaders in creating a culture of organizational learning using normative approach to examine the relationship between communication quality leader ...