Drawing on the JD-R model, this study examines influence of error management climate (EMC) job stress frontline aeronautical employees. It also analyzes moderating role psychological capital (PsyCap) dimensions (i.e., hope, optimism, self-efficacy, and resilience) for relationship between stress. The data was collected from 208 individuals through a questionnaire survey analyzed using partial l...

Management of intellectual capital is an important issue in knowledge intensive organizations. Part of this is the composition of the optimal project portfolio the organization will carry out in the future. Standard methods that guide this process mostly focus on project selection on the basis of expected returns. However, in many cases other strategic factors should be considered in their inte...

This study aims to explore the critical driving and resisting forces that promote or inhibit the implementation and use of project management (PM) software in Qatari Government Organizations in an attempt to determine whether software-based PM methodologies are being effectively implemented in the public sector organizations or not. Research hypotheses were evaluated using ANOVA and MannWhitney...

A community cloud operates to serve multiple organizations who have entered into sharing arrangements with one or more cloud providers. Members of the participating organizations may also collaborate on shared projects, which may lead them to exercise shared control over virtual machines or other cloud-hosted resource instances. Software running in the cloud instances may serve the community me...

Using powerful and convenient analysis tools, engineers “adapt their product designs virtually”—i.e., they iteratively build models of potential product configurations virtually, in the computer; they analyze these models to predict their performance; they evaluate the predicted performance of each configuration against required or desired performance objectives; and they propose new configurat...

This article analyzes information sharing problems in the humanitarian development sector and proposes the concept of a web-based exchange platform to face some of the technical challenges. The “Development Information Exchange System” is a mediator-wrapper-architecture that uses XML documents to loosely couple autonomous and heterogeneous information systems. Detailed project information of hu...

An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system automates and integrates key business processes of an organization and provides information to the top management required for strategic decision making. The implementation of ERP systems in organizations is a challenging task. Apart from the technical factors associated with ERP implementation, various socio-technical factors are found critical duri...

gratefully acknowledge the cooperation of the respondents from Michigan-based nonprofit organizations. In addition, we thank Dick Rappleye for his assistance and critical reading of early drafts of this report, Sameer Patil for his help in conducting the web-based survey, and Dan Atkins, on behalf of the Alliance for Community Technology, for bringing us together with the Requirements analysis ...

Technology centered organizations must be able to identify promising new products or process improvements at an early stage so that the necessary resources can be allocated to those activities. It is essential to invest in targeted research and development (R and D) projects as opposed to a wide range of ideas so that resources can be focused on successful outcomes. The selection of the most ap...