We developed an overarching multi-level mediation model using 199 responses from 53 companies the industrial sector in Jordan to examine (1) effect of firm-level environmental climate on relationship between formal regulatory institutions and strategic actions, (2) role that informal conveyed via political, normative, business connections plays environment-related cognitions top managers. At ‘w...

This study is to design a leadership development program for a company’s succession planning which will be important for its future competition. A semiconductor assembly and testing multinational corporation (MNC) in Taiwan was selected for interviews of its high level management to address the business strategy and challenge. Along with an investigation of the literature, this research works o...

Various commercial e-services have emerged in the last years (eg. Google Ads). Besides requiring a solid technical foundation, these eservices must also be profitable in the long term. Such profits are achieved by creating competitive advantage. How to create competitive advantage is outlined in an organization’s business strategy. For an organization to execute its business strategy, a consist...

This paper describes experiences of value creation in e-grocery business. In addition to customer value, we focus on the strategic management perspective this being extremely vital as profitable ebusiness is emphasized. To get more in-depth understanding of the phenomenon a long-term case study strategy and qualitative methods were used. Based on the results of the study, profitability seems to...

This paper aims to evaluate what effect applying residents’ urban image to virtual city design (a real time virtual model of an actual city) has on wayfinding performance during ‘flying-based’ navigation mode. Two experiments were conducted to compare two virtual city designs using the virtual model of Tel Aviv city. One design included highlighted urban elements from the residents’ urban image...

Elastic scaling allows a data stream processing system to react to a dynamically changing query or event workload by automatically scaling in or out. Thereby, both unpredictable load peaks as well as underload situations can be handled. However, each scaling decision comes with a latency penalty due to the required operator movements. Therefore, in practice an elastic system might be able to im...

This thesis, joint with F. Mezzanotti, provides a lower bound for the extent of strategic voting. Voters are strategic if they switch their vote from their favorite candidate to one of the main contenders in a tossup election. High levels of strategic voting are a concern for the representativity of democracy and the allocation efficiency of government goods and services. Recent work in economi...

Defence Research and Development Canada – Valcartier has sponsored the development a Conceptual Operational Model of the strategic planning process within the Canadian Forces Joint Staff. This model is intended to convey an understanding of the processes within the headquarters for planning and monitoring international missions. As such, it captures the command and control processes at the stra...

Using the healthcare integrated delivery system (IDS) as a distinct and useful example of an interorganizational network, the current study empirically tests a model of strategic fit for this level of analysis. In particular, this study examines the strategic fit between IT integration and sophistication and organizational maturity within the healthcare IDS. Secondary data obtained from HIMSS A...

During recent years, IT alignment research has gained considerable attention in both academia and practice. However, so far most studies focus on the strategic-to-strategic IT alignment dimension, thus omitting an integration of the strategic-to-tactical IT alignment dimension. By drawing upon assimilation and institutional theory, our research model depicts a perspective on IT project alignmen...