Chris Kimble and Isabelle Bourdon Abstract: This paper explores the contribution of communal structures such as Communities of Practice (CoPs) on Intra-organizational Knowledge Management (KM). First, we look at intra organizational knowledge management and explore the role that information systems can play. We introduce the idea of "Systèmes d'Aide à la Gestion des Connaissances" SAGC (Systems...

INTRODUCTION One-third of US veterans receiving care at Veterans Health Administration (VHA) medical facilities are obese and, therefore, at higher risk for developing multiple chronic diseases. To address this problem, the VHA designed and nationally disseminated an evidence-based weight-management program (MOVE!). The objective of this study was to examine the organizational factors that aide...

Adoption of Information Technology (IT) in organizations is influenced by a range of factors in the context of technology, organization, environment and individuals. Amongst others, the IT literature has identified several organizational factors that either facilitates or hinders innovation adoption in organizations. Studies examining the factors influencing IT adoption have produced inconsiste...

Effective project management, such as clear user requirements and top management support, are more conducive to the success of ERP than system innovation. Organizational fit is an important project success factor; however, its importance and relationships with key project management (PM) factors in large-scale software projects have not been thoroughly investigated. The purpose of this paper is...

Many healthcare reforms are to digitalize and integrate healthcare information systems. However, the disparity of business benefits in having an integrated healthcare information system (IHIS) varies with organizational fit factors. Critical success factors (CSFs) exist for hospitals to implement an IHIS successfully. This study investigated the relationship between the organizational fit and t...

this study examines the effects of organizational culture (oc) on corporate entrepreneurship (ce) among small and medium enterprises (smes). first, some models were developed to measure organizational culture and corporate entrepreneurial activities. these models measure the key factors of oc that influence personnel to initiate ce and different entrepreneurial activities that smes applied for ...

This paper proposes and tests a model to explain three critical outcomes of Performance Management Systems (PMS): information quality, effectiveness, and usefulness of the PMS to managerial decision-making. Drawing from Organizational Information Processing Theory (OIPT), we examined how those three outcomes may be influenced by factors that affect OIP requirements (industry, size, and geograph...

Numerous studies have identified that the vast majority of high-consequence maritime accidents are largely attributable to human and organizational factors. Some would argue that human and organizational factors play a significant role in all maritime accidents. In an industry where technological equipment and hardware solutions have typically been applied to improve and promote shipboard safet...