Human Factors, the so-called Soft Issues, play a vital role in highlighting the difference between success and failure for any project where people are involved, resistance to change, both at a personal and organizational level, being one such factor. In this paper, we report the findings of two empirical studies, using Action Research (AR), that were conducted over a period of two years at a m...

SupplyChainManagementInformationSystem(SCMIS)hasgainedalotofimportancebecause ofitsabilitytoreducecostsandincreaseresponsivenessinthesupplychain.Theimplementation ofSCMISisacomplicatedprocesswithsignificantrisk.Thestudieshaverevealedthatthesuccess inimplementingthesesystemsisnotveryencouraging.Therefore,itisnecessarytoestablishthe imped...

In light of the new interest in remote application hosting, or application service provision (ASP), this study aims at empirically testing the ASP Intention Model (AIM), by surveying 143 decision makers in organizations. The model, based on institutional theories, reflects factors affecting organizational intention to adopt remote application hosting: perceived business benefits of ASP, perceiv...

The phenomena of leadership and organizational culture (OC) has been defined as the driving forces in the success or failure of an organization. Today, nurse managers must demonstrate leadership behaviors or styles that are appropriate for the constantly changing, complex, and turbulent health care delivery system. In this study, researchers explored the relationship between nurse managers' lea...

The lack of consideration of organizational issues in systems development can lead to project failure. A review of the literature and a pre-test survey suggested classifying organizational issues into five categories and examining how these are considered by IT managers. A postal survey with responses from 64 senior IT specialists over a cross section of industry and commerce showed that there ...

Information systems development is a high-risk undertaking, and failures remain common despite advances in development tools and technologies. In this paper, we argue that one reason for this is the collapse of organizational intelligence required to deal with the complexities of systems development. Organizations fail to learn from their experience in systems development because of limits of o...

Organizational IS/IT strategy, as a possible source of organizational failure and success, has been widely discussed in both academic and business circles. Several different models for the process of IS/IT strategy formation and implementation have been presented—mostly linking it to the organizational corporate strategy through the notion of alignement. This chapter discusses a different persp...

An individual’s reluctance to report bad news about a troubled IT project has been found to be an important contributor to project failure. While there are a variety of factors influencing the reluctance to report, prior IS research has mainly focused on situational factors rather than personal and organizational factors. In this paper, we examine the effects of certain organizational factors o...

Despite of the rapid technical development, failures in information systems implementation are common and it seems obvious that the implementation of inter-organizational systems (IOS) include all the same possibilities for failures as intra-organizational systems – and unfortunately even some more. In this paper, we present some empirically proven means for avoiding problems during the impleme...

Empirical evidence, especially in case studies, shows that individual leaders often have a crucial role in successful enterprise transformation in transition economies. Conventional economic analysis alone cannot explain this role of leadership. In this paper we use coordination games to analyse transitions from one Nash-equilibrium to another. We argue that the creation of common knowledge amo...