Organizational adoption of innovations does not always follow easily comprehendible patterns. This is often the case with interorganizational information systems (IOS), where adoption is dependent on attributes related both to the organization and to its environment. The present study operationalizes the Tornatzky and Fleischer (1990) model for organizational adoption in order to investigate re...

With the advent of comprehensive safety standards for software intensive safety related systems, such as IEC 61508 and its speciali-sations for particular industry sectors (medical, machinery, process, etc), there is a need to establish combinations of techniques which can be used by industry to demonstrate conformance to these standards for particular developments. In this paper we describe on...

The first Industrial Revolution and most technological developments preceding it had little or no scientific base. It created a chemical industry with no chemistry, an iron industry without metallurgy, power machinery without thermodynamics. Engineering, medical technology, and agriculture until 1850 were pragmatic bodies of applied knowledge in which things were know to work, but rarely was it...

A central problem confronting all West European economies after World War I! was that of Americanization. How far should European industry be reconstructed in the image of the United States, unquestionably the dominant economic and military power of the postwar world? To contemporaries on both sides of the Atlantic, Americanization of industry meant above all mass production -the high-volume ma...

The cost reduction of green tea processing, the control of fossil fuel resources, and the curbing of corresponding greenhouse gases emission depend on the energy efficiency of tea processing units. Therefore, it is imperative to identify and analyze factors determining energy efficiency of these agro-industrial units. To this end, the present descriptive survey was carried out on 40 managers of...