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The purpose of this study was to better understand the succession of family business in China. The paper made the systemic analysis of the internal and external environment to explain the succession influencing factors in family business. Based on a review and analysis of the literature, the paper presents a model on the factors that influence the family business succession in China.
While IT projects continue to have a poor reputation for successful outcomes, there is increasing evidence that the project manager's skills can be critical for effective project team performance. The aim of this exploratory study was to examine the leadership behaviors of IT project managers, with the goal of exploring the types of leadership behaviors they used to keep their projects on track. We...
The high quality of relationship of business to business (B2B) can reduce risks and trade costs and attain double-win of each other. In B2B context, the customers of certification industry are taken as investigation object, the service quality's impacts on relationship quality is explored in this paper. On the basis of existing researches, four dimensions(process service capability, process interactive...
Building on prior research related to the impact of information technology (IT) and operational risk management (OPM) in the context of SMEs, this paper proposes there is a relationship between IT operational risk management and performances of SMEs. Specifically, a model is developed showing the relationship between IT operational risks, evaluation models, principal causes of IT failure, change management...
This paper examines post-adoption behavior (continue to use or not) within the context of B2B e-marketplace in China. first, based on innovation diffusion theory and relative research, ten key factors effecting organizations to continue to use B2B e-marketplace are identified, the theoretic model is built based on TOE framework and 10 hypotheses are formulated. Then, the model and ten hypothesis are...
This study explores the composed elements of a sense of belonging and the consequences of this sense when using technology in the setting of a community-based organization. Previous research on the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) has indicated that a user's actual behavior in technology use is determined by perceived constructs of technology features, such as usefulness and ease of use. However,...
Current approaches to Business Process Management (BPM) and operational Business Intelligence (BI) integration have been very limited and simply reduced to the problem of technical integration between BPM and BI systems. This paper argues that further opportunities for business value creation could be discovered through systematic analysis of the non-technical aspects of BI and BPM integration, especially...
Firms are increasingly using onshore and offshore business process outsourcing (BPO) to manage their front and back office functions. While most IS research uses transaction cost economics (TCE) to study the transaction-level characteristics that facilitate outsourcing, to advance theory there is a need to focus on the firm-level characteristics that facilitate onshore and offshore BPO. This paper...
IS Offshoring call center employees engaging with both the vendor and the client when performing outsourced IS services may develop dual identification with the vendor and the client. However, the antecedents and consequences of such dual identification, and the relationships between them are poorly understood. We draw on social and organizational identity theory to seek answers to the preceding concerns...
This paper provides a broad overview of the literature on theoretical perspectives in the context of lean manufacturing. Four organizational behavior (OB) theories (contingency theory, resource-based view theory, institutional theory, and transaction costs theory) are reviewed and analyzed on how these theories support the implementation of global manufacturing strategy. The results of this study...
The objective of this paper is to determine the knowledge sharing behavioral intentions among employees. We developed nine hypotheses on the behavioral intentions of employees with respect to sharing knowledge, which are grounded on theory. In addition, we used 141 valid survey responses from an electronics manufacturing firm in Malaysia and analyzed the data using correlation and regression statistical...
Leveraging resource involves the set of processes (i.e., mobilizing, coordinating and deploying) used to exploit a firm's capabilities to take advantage of specific markets' opportunities and create value for customers and wealth for its owners in the marketplace. Entrepreneurial spirit is able to promote the flow, transmit and diffuse of knowledge, which play the vital role at the process of resource...
The paper applies an evolutionary perspective to the study of clusters by analyzing the interrelated develop process of entrepreneurs and industry cluster transformation. It argues how the exogenous and endogenous forces of high-tech industry in which an entrepreneur lives and works has a fundamental impact upon their ability to recognize and exploit opportunities, correspondingly, this paper also...
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