Position The role of humans in the software development process must be studied in the context of their organizational connguration. The organizational structure within which the process executes has a profound effect on its outcome. The communication and interaction problems associated with human involvement in development cannot be addressed by process improvement alone. The solution must inc...

Mission performance is likely to be high when organizational structures are “congruent” with the mission and degraded when organizational structures are “incongruent” with the mission. All else being equal, it is to an organization’s advantage to monitor the fit between its structure and mission, and to alter its structure when a misfit is identified. We afforded teams the opportunity to adapt ...

In our longitudinal study of an ERP implementation using a grounded theory methodology we explored changes in organizational control. We observed contradictory and even paradoxical outcomes from ERP-enabled increases in visibility to organizational operations and associated increases in the control of these operations. Based on these observations, we developed a preliminary framework of the cha...

Increasingly, implementations of information systems (IS) are providing electronic substitutions for physical structures. The evolution of the digital information age has important implications for changes in organizational culture, a concept often linked to organizational performance. While organizational culture has been researched within an IS context, the majority of studies have investigat...

The reasons for information systems (IS) failure are numerous, frequently difficult to determine and may include organizational factors that are outside a project’s control. This paper describes research in progress, which explores the effects of organizational change on the development, implementation and operation of IS. A human resources system (HRS) project is discussed in detail and the li...

Changes in global economy require changes in firms. They need to adapt to speed producing faster and creating new products, structures and processes. The purpose of the paper is to explore literature about organizational culture and its impact on innovation. In the paper the method of literature review is used to examine influence of organizational culture on innovation and performance of enter...

Using panel data from manufacturing firms in Cameroon, this study investigates the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on firms’ productivity in Cameroon. The empirical model is derived from the flexible Translog production function. The strategic complementarities between ICT-capital and organizational changes are accounted for. We estimate our model using the SystemGen...

abstract background: today, given the changes made in the organizations and their environment, the importance of human resources has increased. one of the issues raised in this regard is the organizational silence. the main purpose of this research is to study the manner of impact of self-concept, organizational identity and organizational values on organizational silence of employees of hazrat...

In times of continuous changes, enforced through globalization and networking, organizations face the need both to react quickly to experienced or occurring changes, and to act pro-actively to foreseen developments. An effective way for organizations to act and react is to model the business at the process level and to re-construct or rearrange this representation according to the needs for dyn...