Academic and scientific research often involve the construction of formal and numerical models to solve scientific and engineering problems. Many organizations are evaluating and migrating toward new trends in information systems and IT infrastructure. Now the challenges are less technological and become more cultural as related to governance issues. The paper deals with improving an enterprise...

Organizational agility is a key factor for survival and success in today’s global, interconnected and turbulent business environment. Mobile technology, due to its anywhere, anytime characteristics, can be a promising tool for enhancing organizational agility. Yet there are no studies that guide organizations in leveraging mobile technology for improving speed and responsiveness to market needs...

Organizational research frequently involves seeking judgmental response data from informants within organizations. This article discusses why using rnultiple informants improves the quality of response data and thereby the validity of research findings. The authors show that when there are multiple informants who disagree, responses aggregated with confidenceor competence-based weights outperto...

In this paper, I examine the impact of partner technological diversity and alliance organizational form on firm innovative performance. Using a sample of 463 R&D alliances in the telecommunications equipment industry, I find that alliances contribute far more to firm innovation when technological diversity is moderate, rather than low or high. Although this relationship holds irrespective of al...

The task in expert finding is to identify members of an organization with relevant expertise on a given topic. In existing expert finding systems, profiles are constructed from sources such as email or documents, and used as the basis for expert identification. In this paper, we leverage the organizational hierarchy (depicting relationships between managers, subordinates, and peers) to find mem...

Focus — specialization and speciÞc technology — improves productivity but leads to more dependency and opens a door for power problems. We analyze how organizational design and the choice of technology interact with the allocation of ownership in minimizing the holdup problem in the property rights theory of Grossman-Hart-Moore. We Þnd a novel motive for job rotation: rotation reduces holdup pr...