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The frequent use of global virtual teams for accomplishing organizational tasks helps explain the continued interest in research designed to identify and disentangle the relationships among factors influencing team performance. Participative goal setting represents one factor that may be particularly important in these settings. 52 self-directed global virtual teams, consisting of 318 participants,...
This study examines the development of trust within a 77 member global virtual team, "SciTeam", tasked with organizing a scientific conference. A dedicated discussion board space was created within a virtual scientific organization platform (on which team members from around the world interacted). The task included logistics, scheduling, and content components. We studied the team using...
This study aims to understand the mechanisms of disaster response network evolution by quantitatively examining the actors' attachment behaviors in a real disaster collaboration networks. We aim to do this by identifying the characteristic of existing actors and its impact in forming new connection over time. To quantify actors' attachment logics (i.e., preferential attachment), different options...
Little research data exist about agile teams and wellbeing. After changing our software engineering mode to agile, we wanted to find out if people experienced more or less stress than before. This study is based on a company-wide survey of 466 software engineering practitioners. We asked about their subjective feelings about stress, empowerment, and performance in their respective engineering teams...
Leading enterprise transformation experts offer diverse perspectives on how Agile methods and Lean Product Management practices can improve organizational systems and outcomes. Agile methods promote iterative product releases and pull risk-reduction earlier in product development. Lean product management methods test market hypotheses and rapidly adapt to discoveries. Applying agile and lean product...
Executives around the globe are investigating the benefits that cloud computing can deliver above and beyond cost savings. What is its contribution to competiveness - through improved agility, expanded business networks, and enhanced decision-making? At the same time, the organizational factors inhibiting or supporting cloud computing adoption are poorly understood. This paper builds on Tornatzky...
IT Governance (ITG) continues to be a top priority for organizations, public and non-public. While the level of awareness towards ITG is evident, it is hardly manifested in practice. The purpose of this study is to elicit factors that act as barriers to the adoption of formal ITG practice. This qualitative study consists of 9 semi-structured interviews with the key person in charge of ITG adoption...
This paper investigates the complications of designing effective governance for IT risk management (IT-RM). Literature on formal governance suggests that either a coercive (i.e., to force employees' effort and compliance) or an enabling (i.e., to help employees better to master their tasks) design of procedures help to avoid what literature calls 'mock bureaucracy' (i.e., rules are promulgated for...
Organizations are investing substantial resources in technical security measures that aim at preventively protecting their information assets. The way management -- or information security executives -- deals with potential security measures varies individually and depends on personality traits and cognitive factors. Based on the Theory of Planned Behavior, we examine the relationship between the...
The paper considers the implications of the Corporate Moral Agency debate for the notion of artificial moral agency and the general intelligence project. A distinction is drawn between meta-arguments and object-level arguments, whilst the implications of the arguments within each category are indicated. The "metaphor" "mutuality" and "political" arguments are then discussed...
Organizations increasingly rely on information system (IS) professionals to facilitate end-users' effective use of information technologies. Focusing on IS post-adoptive support and drawing upon organizational citizenship behavior (OCB) theory, this study seeks to understand IS professionals' customer-oriented citizenship behavior, discretionary behavior that would greatly enhance customer service...
We are seeing more and more organizations undertaking activities to engage dispersed populations through IS. Using the knowledge-based view of the organization, this work conceptualizes a theory of Crowd Capital to explain this phenomenon. Crowd Capital is a heterogeneous knowledge resource generated by an organization, through its use of Crowd Capability, which is defined by the structure, content,...
This qualitative research examined the links between knowledge management (KM) and innovation in 16 Australian manufacturing and service organizations that exhibited successful innovation and robust KM practices. A review of the literature indicated the contributions of KM to systematic innovation capability. Using a multiple cross-case analysis methodology and applying a framework of sustained innovation...
Organizational level studies of knowledge management have been enhanced by the development of the measurement instruments for individual knowledge management practices. However, our understanding on what factors and how these factors drive an individual's knowledge creation, knowledge sharing, and knowledge application activities is still limited. This paper explores the influence of the cognitive...
In this paper we propose a Peak Load Allocation Market framework designed to incentivize organizational units of Commercial and Industrial customers to reduce their peak demand. The market mechanism requires units' bids to indicate the value they associate with power services, and the power requirement for these services. The market resolution produces a service and payment allocation, i.e., determination...
This study investigated how external influences motivate senior management to commit to information system security (ISS) by examining the mediating role of senior management between external influences and organizational change. Neo-institutional theory was used to examine normative, mimetic, and coercive mechanisms that affect ISS assimilation in organizations. Findings show senior management beliefs...
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