This paper analyzes power relationships and the resulting failure in complying with information security rules. We argue that inability to understand the intricate power relationships in the design and implementation of information security rules leads to a lack of compliance with the intended policy. We conduct the argument through an empirical, qualitative case study set in a Swedish Social S...

Recent research in social psychology has examined how psychological power affects organizational behaviors. Given that power in organizations is generally viewed as a structural construct, I examine the links between structural and psychological power and explore how their interrelationships affect organizational behavior. I argue that psychological power takes two forms: the (nonconscious) cog...

Due to the cross-boundary characteristicof inter-organizational information systems (IOS), its usage is affected by inter-organizational relationships (IORs), which plays an even more important role in China.This paper develops a conceptual model of the influence of IORs on IOS usage and supply chain performance. Based on organizational learning theory, the paper dividespatterns of IOS usage in...

This paper presents a new approach to conceptualizating organizational memory and memory support systems. Organizational power structures are shown to have implications for semantic ambiguity in memory support systems, and it is claimed that a communicative view on organizational memory is needed to support organizational learning and innovation processes that create new knowledge. The paper di...

S. TINA GHOSH and GEORGE E. APOSTOLAKIS US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Mail Stop: T-7F27 Washington, DC 20555, USA Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and Engineering Systems Division 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 24-221, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA Corresponding author. E-mail : [email protected]...

Objectives: Employees' job satisfaction and organizational commitment is very important for the steady growth development of an organization. Today, with increase in competitive environment, attempts organizations to understand how ensure this stability have also increased. Also, it seen that high psychological capital employees their dissent behavior performance, while power distance both redu...