Business analytics systems can potentially contribute to firm performance and create competitive advantage. However, these benefits do not always follow from investment in business analytics technology. This paper argues that dynamic capabilities, enabled by business analytics technology, lead to value-creating actions and ultimately to improved firm performance. We develop a theoretical model ...

the coordination and alignment between the corporate, business and functional strategies cause to raise organizational efficiency. this article based on strategic reference points theory, intends to illuminate how the alignment of human resources , ethical decision making and organizational culture strategies affect firm performance. data for this study were collected from research organization...

Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, this paper examines the impact of organizational change on workers. We find evidence that employers do appear to compensate at least some of their workers for engaging in high performance workplace practices. We also find a significant association between high performance workplace practices and increased wage inequa...

In this paper we explore the information processing problem of the firm by modeling the firm as type of network, which is comprised of two kinds of agents, ’searchers’ and ’managers.’ The searchers explore the external environment and report the information to the managers. We study the role of centralization/decentralization in organizational structure to see how it affects performance of a fi...

Canonical correlation analysis of manufacturing firm data demonstrated that organizational "competence" (executive ratings of organizational performance and executive turnover) was not strongly related to situational variables like organization size, structure, and technology. Instead, "competence" was related primarily to management's values regarding the firm's publics, such as customers, sup...

In this paper, we examine the phenomenon of dyadic inter-organizational relationships and develop a conceptual model to explain the influence of complementary knowledge and relative absorptive capacity on firm performance. Using theoretical perspectives emanating from the knowledge-based view of the firm and organizational learning, we suggest that performance outcomes in inter-organizational r...