Kambeiz Talebi, the author of the Article discusses the urgent needfor topmanagers to change their style in small entrepreneurial firms during a business life cycle. Although most leadership theories assume that it is an easy task, but the case studies and practical experience suggest the opposite - managers find it hard to move from an innovative style when the company is young to taskoriente...

Drawing upon the corporate social responsibility literature, we investigate the moderating effects of the natural environment and the stage of an organization’s life cycle on the market orientation to firm innovativeness relationship. Through 229 owners or chief executive officer respondents, our results establish evidence of (1) a positive linkage between market orientation and firm innovative...

For a commercial company it is very important to be able to transfer relevant information to corporate knowledge. Therefore, a new concept must support and manage the information-to-knowledge and the knowledge-to-information cycle by using trustworthy knowledge repositories and personalised retrieval systems. The xFIND system represents an approach to a future-oriented knowledge system, which s...

The evolution of corporate intranets has tremendous implications for organization-wide information sharing, communication, collaboration, and application support. While some organizations continue to use intranets primarily for publishing and posting internal documents and corporate policies, a few are unleashing the power of intranets to access knowledge sources, collaborate on projects, and t...

A formal approach to security in the software life cycle is essential to protect corporate resources. However, little thought has been given to this aspect of software development. Traditionalb, software security has been treated as an afterthought leading to a cycle of ‘penetrate and patch. ’ Due to its criticality, security should be integrated as a formal approach .in the software life cycle...