In the strategic alignment model of Henderson and Venkatraman (1993) [1] IT infrastructure has an important but only implicitly defined role. According to evolving literature, IT infrastructure serves many different purposes in large companies. We outline the main missions (roles) of the corporate-wide IT infrastructure and its contribution to IS effectiveness and study the relationship of IT i...

abstract through the interpretation of texts, and subsequent creation of social reality, mediated representations are often seen to be presented within the certain of ideological discourses that reflect the existing power structures. the main objective of this paper is to analyze television commercials with an emphasis on gender roles to decode the main elements of a dominant discourse (preferr...

Virtual teams enabled by information and communications technologies (ICT) are increasingly being adopted not only by for-profit organizations but also by education institutions as well. This study investigates what contribute to the success of virtual learning teams in a higher-education institution. Specifically, we examine the issue of leadership in virtual learning teams. The study first re...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this systematic review was to determine the effectiveness and implementation of advanced allied health assistant roles. METHODS A systematic search of seven databases and Google Scholar was conducted to identify studies published in English peer-reviewed journals from 2003 to 2013 and reporting on the effectiveness and implementation of advanced allied health assista...

This study was undertaken to discover working public thoughts about roles of United States women in leadership positions and to test the relationship between managerial leadership styles and organizational effectiveness. A survey of perceptions of leadership roles and effectiveness distributed 700 randomly selected entities from industries in the United States. Findings suggest approximately 50...

poorinformative websites of hotels in iranian tourist destinations has turned to a deterrent factor in attracting potential tourists from all over the world. the main goal of this study was to identify effective solutions for improving the informative effectiveness of iranian top hotels’ websites based on interviews with 25 hotel managers (i.e. ceos, public relations managers and it managers). ...

The paper arises from research that examined a healthcare coordination improvement initiative that was focused on increasing knowledge sharing among a network of healthcare workers involved in the care of children with complex medical needs. Part of this initiative involved a summary medical note (the SPOC) that was paper-based and carried by parents between the specialists involved in their ch...

This paper, based on the Viterbi algorithm, selects the most likely combination of different wording from a variety of scenarios. In this regard, the Bi-gram and Unigram tags of each word, based on the letters forming the words, as well as the bigram and unigram labels After the breakdown into the composition or moment of transition from the decomposition to the combination obtained from th...