This paper explores the linkage between organizational structure and cross-cultural management. It suggests that a fluid and continuously evolving structure enables effective crosscultural management. In support of this proposition, the paper reports on the experience of one of the world’s largest financial services corporations – a Swiss Bank. The bank adopted a different type of organizationa...

Many researchers have argued that organizations must tailor their structures and decision-making process to fit the demand of their external environments. Uncertain environments require more flexible and responsive structure. The new design must achieve a fit, both with the organization’s external environment, and among its elements of structure and processes (Thompson, 1967). In this paper, I ...

This paper describes the background for a study in progress of the effect of organizational culture on levels of e-commerce adoption. While e-commerce has been studied in detail, the importance of organizational culture in the level of e-commerce adoption has not been explored in depth. Organizational culture can be a limiting factor on the acceptance of technological change and has been linked...

Research has suggested that gaining a competitive advantage requires users of technology to be early adopters and that higher levels of e-commerce adoption are associated with increased levels of organizational performance. While e-commerce has been studied in detail, the importance of organizational culture in the level of e-commerce adoption has not been explored in depth. Organizational cult...

Multi-agent Systems (MAS) meld the research fields of Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence into a field called Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). MAS fit nicely into domains that are naturally distributed and require automated reasoning to solve problems. Sensible Agents are one MAS designed for domains with a high level of dynamism and uncertainty. A central problem in MAS...

Background: Smart buildings are one of the major application areas of technologies bound to embedded systems and the Internet of things. Such systems have to be adaptable and flexible in order to provide better services to its residents. Modelling such systems is an open research question. Herein, the question is approached using an organizational modelling methodology bound to the principles o...

Purpose – The idea that knowledge management can be a potential source of competitive advantage has gained strength in the last few years. However, a number of business actions are needed to generate an appropriate environment and infrastructure for knowledge creation, transfer and application. Among these actions there stands out the design of an organizational structure, the link of which wit...

Today’s software operate in a dynamic, organizational context and hence, it needs flexible architectures based in social and intentional concepts to enable software to evolve consistently with its operational environment. The Tropos requirements oriented development methodology, has defined a number of organizational architectural styles which are suitable to cooperative, dynamic and distribute...