The papers in this minitrack focus around the strategic uses of convergent technologies that clearly dictate the need for organizational readiness. e-Business models, strategic partnership alliances, technology-focused solutions, staffing, and methodologies are all part of an evolving organizational model needed to capitalize on fast moving information technologies. Emerging technologies are ro...

Change has become a normal occurrence within organizations and especially municipalities, due to the rapid society and economic changes. In a competitive global economy, organizations are forced to stay abreast with environmental changes in order to survive. Employee readiness for change can be a determining factor of successful change. To recognize antecedents of change readiness, the present ...

Implementing knowledge management or knowledge-sharing projects in an organization require significant organizational prerequisites. Lacking proper infrastructures and prerequisite, not only make the knowledge management process unprofitable, but might incur harmful effects as well. To decrease such risks, it is proposed to introduce the readiness assessment, in order to gauge a company’s appet...

BACKGROUND Current acute care surgical practices do not focus on the unique needs of older adults. Adverse outcomes in older patients result from a complex interrelationship between baseline vulnerability and insults experienced during hospitalization. The purpose of this study is to assess the organizational readiness and the barriers and facilitators for the implementation of elder-friendly i...

Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems represent an opportunity to improve the delivery of health care. However, low implementation rates inhibit the ability of EHR to fulfill the promise of the information systems. One possible reason why implementation rates remain low is the high degree of customization required by clinical workers to fit the information systems to the organization. This wor...

OBJECTIVE This study explored factors that affect the adoption or rejection of evidence-based practice (EBP) changes and differences in nurse manager and staff nurse perceptions about those factors. BACKGROUND Roger's Diffusion of Innovations Theory explains relevant organizational strategies for guiding practice change. METHODS The primary author developed the Evidence-Based Practice Chang...

Drawing on a case study of an ongoing consolidation of two US school districts, we examine the potential contribution that institutional theory can make to our understanding of change readiness. In so doing, we suggest that an institutional perspective provides three major opportunities for advancement in this area. First, we argue that it allows a shift from individual to collective cognitions...

Implementation of ERP systems continues to drive change in organizations. However, the effort is often considered a failure, partially because potential users resist the change. Readiness plays an active role in reducing resistance to such efforts. Therefore, we examined the formation of readiness for change and its effect on the perceived technological value of an ERP system leading to its use...

BACKGROUND The adoption and diffusion of clinical information systems has become one of the critical benchmarks for achieving several healthcare organizational reform priorities, including home care, primary care, and integrated care networks. However, these systems are often strongly resisted by the same community that is expected to benefit from their use. Prior research has found that early ...