Aims: To explore and describe behavioural organisational factors playing a role in the adoption of blockchain technology supply network, next to technical aspects.
 Research Questions: (1) “Why would companies use it insert information considered as strategic?” (2) customers consumers trust it?” (3) “Is suitable for every firm?”.
 Study Design/Methodology: A literature review combined...

The main focus of this chapter is to explore the concept “organisational commitment”. The discussion includes the following aspects: theoretical background; definition of the concept; adopted model for this study, dimensions of organisational commitment; development of organisational commitment; factors affecting the employees’ commitment; the effects of commitment; and the management of organi...

This article focuses on a study conducted with the purpose of exploring and describing the organisational climate as a cause of job dissatisfaction among nursing staff in selected hospitals within the Mpumalanga Province. The major objectives were to determine what organisational climate encompasses; ascertain which factors related to organisational climate can cause dissatisfaction among nurse...

Organisational audit of public health in the United Kingdom is rare. To provide a framework for a structured organisational audit in district public health departments in one region organisational factors contributing to efficient, high quality work were identified and compared between districts, enabling each department to identify its organisational strengths and weaknesses. A draft list of o...

Tacit knowledge has long been recognised, however its research has focused largely on who is more likely to have this store of knowledge, rather than taking this one step further and elaborating on just how well this knowledge is diffused throughout the organisational domain. We focus our efforts on the IS organisational domain, by which we mean computing workplace professionals as opposed to t...

This chapter examines the risk factors for firms investing in e-commerce or electronic commerce in New Zealand. The relationships between the intra and extra organisational factors that ensure the success or failure of the electronic commerce projects in New Zealand are discussed. The investment risks for electronic commerce projects may rest on the planning, development, implementation and pos...

This paper examined the adoption of total quality management (TQM) by 228 New Zealand enterprises of all sizes, ranging from one employee to 8,800. Overall, 33% of firms in New Zealand used TQM, with an additional 5% of firms no longer using TQM. This indicates strong TQM adoption rates by current international standards. Factors tested to predict TQM adoption were organisational size, workplac...

In this paper I argue that so-called transdisciplinary research, that is problem-oriented, non-technological research outside the disciplinary structure, leads to a strengthening of organisational aspects of knowledge production and, particularly, of a change in quality standards. Quality standards are increasingly defined in intra-organisational or project-dependent and procedural instead of d...