BACKGROUND Workflow interruptions during surgery may cause a threat to patient's safety. Workflow interruptions were tested to predict failure in action regulation that in turn predicts near-accidents in surgery and related health care. METHODS One-hundred-and-thirty-three theater nurses and physicians from eight Swiss hospitals participated in a cross-sectional questionnaire survey. The stud...

Managing projects is firmly driven by its business goals. Simplistically, considering a project as success, or failure, depends on it meeting its objectives and requirements within its resources. While traditional projects are well constructed, Information Systems projects tend to be complex and ill-defined. These problems are exacerbated in contexts of Inter-Organizational Information (IOIS) a...

Non-profit organizations represent an important institutional avenue for delivering social services in contemporary Australia. Moreover, a voluminous theoretical literature exists on the voluntary sector in advanced countries. However, relatively little effort has thus far been expended on the empirical assessment of the main models of non-profit organizational behaviour. Using 2003 survey data...

Although we expect managers to use the capabilities of business analytics systems to search for solutions and improve firm performance, we do not have a good understanding of the factors that motivate managers to undertake such search. Drawing on attribution and control theories, we propose a theory that explicates the performance conditions under which managers undertake search activities. Spe...

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) views Health Information Technology (HIT) as an essential organizational prerequisite for the delivery of safe, reliable, and cost-effective health services. However, HIT presents the proverbial double-edged sword in generating solutions to improve system performance while facilitating the genesis of novel iatrogenic problems. Incongruent organizational processes...

Globalization has affected the organizations in different aspects such as structure, architecture, internal/external strategies and sourcing management. Outsourcing is one of the recent business strategies used to provide IT needs via external agents. The relationship between the service buyer and provider companies is a constituent playing a significant role in IT outsourcing success or failur...

The technology industry has received poor marks on its ability to deliver successful projects on time and on budget. According to Sribar & Passori [32], 72% of all IT projects are late, over budget, lack functionality, or are never delivered as planned. Varley [36] suggested that poor communications, unrealistic expectations, competing agendas, resistance to change, and lack of agreed upon metr...

Organizational culture is the main contextual factor that both directly and indirectly affects knowledge sharing among employees. There is no empirical research so far conducted on organizational culture of CBE that can inform selection of appropriate solutions from existing theoretical research. Our investigation found that risk avoidance is a key dimension of organizational culture that promo...