Previous research has found that organizational innovations are important for organizations’ long-term competitive advantage and for technical innovations. In spite of this conclusion, organizational innovations remain poorly managed and poorly understood, especially the processes through which organizational innovations are created, diffused, and sustained. There is thus a need for a more comp...

Despite numerous advances in IT security, many computer users are still vulnerable to security-related risks because they do not comply with organizational policies and procedures. In a network setting, individual risk can extend to all networked users. Endpoint security refers to the set of organizational policies, procedures, and practices directed at securing the endpoint of the network conn...

Based on the common elements in the definitions and operationalizations of knowledge management and the learning organization, a triad of objectives for both knowledge management and the learning organizations is identified: 1) improved information and knowledge that enables (2) organizational behaviors and decisions that have greater impacts, and (3) improved organizational performance. These ...

The author employed an ethnographic research approach, combined with a clinical element, to explore the nature and role of culture in the context of organizational change. The study took place at the U.K. operations of a global human resources consulting firm, People Associates. Using Schein’s levels of culture model, the author identified cultural assumptions and values and explored how these ...

Purpose: Recent global security surveys indicate that security training and awareness programs are not working as well as they could be and that investments made by organizations are inadequate. The purpose of the paper is to increase our understanding of this phenomenon and illuminate the problems that organizations face when trying to establish an information security awareness program. Desig...

A progressively more technological and competitive employment environment in today’s world economy requires employees to have a firm understanding of critical technical skills to build on when they arrive at the workplace. This study examines how differences in the environ­ mental conditions and organizational factors fac­ ing four community colleges contributed to the development of occupation...

Commercial market actors customers invest in energy efficiency for different reasons that residential customers. However, energy efficiency program evaluators often rely on the same behavior change theories to measure the effectiveness of programs targeted at residential and commercial customers.,. While these theories are invaluable in many cases, they often frame the end user as an individual...

When information technologies (IT) have a central role in organizational change programs , understanding how organization members make sense of technology is critical to influencing their actions and to achieving planned outcomes. Orlikowski and Gash articulated a theoretic framework centered on technological frames of reference (TFR) to investigate interpretive processes related to IT in organ...

Scholars and practitioners increasingly strive to understand the complexities marking implementations of organizational change programs. Studies on this topic often concentrate on members’ cognition about a planned change, regularly finding that members’ knowledge structures and interpretations either converge or diverge over time. Using interviews, observations, and a unique discourse processi...

Systematic evaluations of efforts to transfer research-based interventions and procedures into general practice at community drug treatment programs have been limited. However, practical experiences as well as results from studies of technology transfer and organizational behavior in related fields provide a basis for proposing a heuristic model of key factors that influence this process. The s...