As organizations implement software reuse programs to improve productivity and software quality, they face the challenge of how best to encourage reuse. This study describes a behavioral model that attempts to explain the influence of a reuse consumer’s perception of the trustworthiness of the producer, the technical characteristics of the component, and the organizational reuse norms on a reus...

The size of international software industry is over $1000bn. Total revenue earned by the Indian software industry in year 2005 was $30bn and which is expected to grow. The price quoted by vendors to its customers and the rate of the customer service is dependent on the productivity of the project. Given the fact that software development complexity is on an ever-increasing curve, it becomes cri...

OBJECTIVE To test whether an intervention to improve primary care depression management significantly improves productivity at work and absenteeism over 2 years. SETTING AND SUBJECTS Twelve community primary care practices recruiting depressed primary care patients identified in a previsit screening. RESEARCH DESIGN Practices were stratified by depression treatment patterns before randomiza...

One of the methods that have been used to encourage student reflection skills is scientific writing. The purpose of this article is to discuss implementation of obligatory study topic with the main objective to increase the skills of scientific writing among students of Bachelor Nursing Curriculum and its relation to scientific publishing volume of Bachelor degree students from the University o...

with entrance spirituality and god to management and organization field, as 21st century challenge, organization’s managers and leaders especially educational institutions must confront with new phenomena. spiritual leader’s role to incite and encourage human resource with use of spiritual vision and establishment of cultural context based on human values, to foster empowered, high productivity...

Since the late 1980s, technological advances and policy reforms have created new opportunities for private-sector investment in India’s seed and agricultural biotechnology industries. These changes have had a significant impact on cotton yields and output in India, but less so for rice and wheat—the country’s main cereal staples—for which yield growth rates are tending toward stagnation. This a...

Much has been said about the importance of innovation, especially after the rise of globalization and implementation of more open markets. In this paper, we will show how innovation is linked to schools of thoughts that sought to explain and understand what would lead nations to reach a certain degree of long-term development, since the model of Joseph Schumpeter in the mid-1930s until Romer’s ...

What influences encourage and discourage long-term use of an Information System (IS)? In a longitudinal study over 14 months, we examine use of a Learning Management System in an educational setting. Our findings suggest that the influences that support users' decision to adopt a technology may not be sufficient to encourage continued long-term use. New influences emerge as users employ technol...

during the past two decades business and manufacturing have observed significant and radical changes. companies have used automation in the manufacturing, in order to improve quality and competency. it was expected that along with these changes, management accounting systems, which focus on monitoring and analyzing management decisions, should adapt with and encourage the changes. many authors ...