IS outsourcing is one of the major issues facing organizations in today’s rapidly changing business environment. It is often presented as an attractive business proposition to improve productivity, reduce costs and increase competitiveness. This study examined the relationship between knowledge sharing and IS outsourcing success based on the social capital theory. It shows the knowledge sharing...

introduction: in today’s changing world, in addition with establishing human capital, supporting social capital is one of other challenges in organizational behavior. furthermore, social capital is a public characteristic, but it is resulted from individual efforts in making trust, relationships and cooperation. without social capital, staff would not have willingness to share information and k...

Organizations will be central actors in societal adaptation to climate variability and change. But highly simplified assumptions are often made about the response of organizations to the stimulus of perceived or experienced climate change. This paper reviews recent literature, arguing that three approaches are applied in studies of organizational adaptation: utility-maximizing, behavioral, and ...

Purpose Innovative organizations are increasingly facing challenges in a dynamic market to address corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues; however, research on how organizational learning (OL) contributes organizations’ and innovation remains sparse. This study aims bridge the gap previous examines OL capabilities (DCs) act as drivers of CSR performance (CSRP) performance. Design/methodol...

Purpose-This study attempts to investigate (1) the effect of meditation experience on employees’ self-directed learning (SDL) readiness and organizational innovative (OI) ability as well as organizational performance (OP), and (2) the relationships among SDL, OI, and OP. Design/methodology/approach-This study conducts an empirical study of 15 technological companies (n = 412) in Taiwan, utilizi...

The economic activities related to food and agriculture are not usually considered as the conventional path to development. These are generally categorized as ‘low-tech’ activities and often considered as a transitional phase towards ‘high-tech’ manufacturing industries. This paper holds that such conventional thinking may no longer be true in certain contexts. It uses the Prebisch-Singer thesi...

Many scholars and practitioners have emphasized the importance of learning within and by organizations to respond to changing conditions in the global marketplace and to sustain competitive advantage. As a result, organizational learning has become an important capability for many organizations to remain viable. Although the importance of organizational learning has been growing in response to ...