This paper introduces a unified theoretical model of organizational agility and investigates the attributes of knowledge-intensive work-design systems, which contribute to achieving and sustaining organizational agility. Even though there has been considerable research on the topic of agility, these studies are not unified regarding their conceptualizations of agility and/or tend to adopt fairl...

Background: Today, government agencies, including medical universities, are facing a changing environment that needs to take advantage of new approaches such as entrepreneurship and organizational agility to maintain or enhance competitive advantage. Therefore, this study was designed to identify the factors affecting entrepreneurship and agility of organizations that have a gr...

Agility is all the rage. Across the landscape, businesses request agility as a deliverable, make claims that they are agile, and (some) go so far as to assert they can provide agility to other corporate entities outside of their own sphere of influence. The challenge before us as a Systems Engineering Community is that (Enterprise) Agility, although well documented throughout engineering litera...

Petroleum companies have great interest in developing their countries through improving their resources to be more competitive. They are also trying to maintain a high level of responsiveness to achieve agility and to remain competitive in the global marketplace especially after instability of oil prices and global financial crisis. Agile systems (AS) is considered as the next industrial revolu...

Agility has an undeniable effect on organization success inthe present changing markets, and information technology (IT) is a majorfacilitating factor in business activities of organizations nowadays,as about more than a half of present organizations capitals is based onIT. Therefore, assessment of the IT application level and organizationalagility, and study of the effect of application of IT ...

Knowledge creation has emerged as a critical area in information systems research in the past decade (Nonaka 1994). However, the mechanism through which knowledge creation enhances firm performance remains unclear. This paper examines the role of organization agility as a mediator between knowledge creation processes and firm performance. Our survey study of 134 firms indicates that two forms o...

features within the organization are vital part of its success; therefore, more and more to identify these features and how they impact on the output of the rapidly changing environment of today, it seems imperative. guided by the knowledge of the organization is the function of a human and organizational culture. knowledge management is the practice of corporate culture and how to build a cult...

Literature is divided on whether enterprise systems promote or hinder organizational agility. To the best of our knowledge, this paradox has never been rigorously theoretically analyzed nor empirically investigated. This paper seeks to address this paradox by leveraging upon innovation assimilation literature and knowledge based and capabilities based views of organizations. We propose a theore...

The contemporary workplaces face demanding challenges, such as expectations to be agile, competitive, efficient and adept to using employee knowledge. There are several required virtues in order to have a conductive workplace, for example, organizational learning and agility. The discussion forum aimed to bring out the inter-related roles of organizational learning, agility and social technolog...