This paper examines the task, relationship, and change orientations of e-business leadership, based on an exploratory study of 31 successfully operating e-business sites, with hypotheses developed from situational leadership theory. The results indicate that, despite different levels of e-business readiness, effective leadership is characterized by high task, high relationship, and high change-...

The process of resolving cost-requirements conflicts is difficult because of incompatibilities among stakeholders’ interests and priorities, complex costrequirements dependencies, and an exponentially increasing option space for larger systems. This paper describes an exploratory knowledge-based tool, the Software Cost Option Strategy Tool (S-COST), for assisting stakeholders to surface appropr...

Team efficacy beliefs show promise in enhancing team performance. Using a model-based quantitative research design, we investigated the antecedents and performance consequences of generalized team efficacy (potency) in a sample of 56 capital projects executed by 15 Fortune 500 companies in the process industries. Empirical analysis of our field survey identified that generalized team efficacy b...

In order to improve the internal structure of object-oriented software, refactoring has proved to be a feasible technique. Scheduling a refactoring process for a complex software system is a difficult task to do. Refactorings may be organized and prioritized based on goals established by the project management leadership, that shapes a refactoring strategy. The paper presents a multi-objective ...

Supplier development involves the customer firm's support of a deficient supplier in a channel. This research examines the relationship between supplier development, improvements and the support of the customer firm's competitive strategy with the resource-based view and the relational view as theoretical explanatory perspectives. The results show that appropriate supplier development activitie...

This paper examines the relationship between strategy and Total Quality Management (TQM) implementation, as well as the impact of the adaptation of both to organizational performance. We have used the emphasis on cost leadership, differentiation on marketing and differentiation on innovation as strategic dimensions to develop four great strategic configurations. The degrees of implementation of...