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In order to exploit the value of human resources slack, this paper studies the impact of human resources slack on the product innovation of information technology firms. I develop a nonlinear U-shaped relationship model between human resource slack and product innovation, and subsequently test this model using samples of 34 Chinese firms. The empirical results show that human resource slack on the...
The Information Technology industry is growing at a healthy rate with businesses heavily dependent on IT applications for their operations. India has become a global hub for IT services export and has witnessed exponential growth of employment opportunities. While the IT industry has felt a pressing need for acquiring and retaining competent talent, academia on the other side has also felt a strong...
As the development of IT, information system (IS) become more and more important for commercial use in an Organization. Two models-Nolan's Stages of Growth Model and Three-Era Model are used to introduce how IS has changed and been used within an Organization. Then, McFarland's Strategic Grid which is a powerful tool for management to appraise the importance and the potential opportunities of IS is...
Importance of BITA has increased over the past few years. However, achieving and maturing BITA still has apparent difficulties. Therefore, research efforts resulted in a number of theoretical models that can be applied as supportive tools for assessing different components of BITA. Most of these efforts have been produced either in Anglo-Saxon Countries or based on their experiences. The purpose of...
This research aims to better understand how IT governance supports organizations in their business exchanges with other organizations by investigating further the various modes of interorganizational governance of IT. After conducting case studies and interviews with committee members and IT executives, two modes of governance of IT during interorganizational relationships were uncovered: outsourced...
Many organizations have adopted an Enterprise Architecture (EA) approach because of the potential benefits resulting from a more standardized and coordinated approach to systems development and management, and because of the tighter alignment of business and information technology in support of business strategy execution. At the same time, experience shows that having an effective EA practice is...
Despite the increased attention on boundary spanning in organizations, we still know surprisingly little about how boundaries are formed and what spanning activities can be applied in the context of offshore outsourcing organizations. This paper examines the antecedents of boundary formation in this context and also has proposed spanning activities that can help offshore outsourcing organizations...
Today's society is exposed to an increasing number of disasters and large scale emergencies (e.g. earthquake in Haiti, global swine flu, or manmade disasters like the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico). Information and communication technology (ICT) can help to prevent and mitigate the effects of threatening situations if applied appropriately. In industry ICT governance methods have become important...
Both practitioners and researchers put forward enterprise architecture management as a mean for achieving success with information technology. Many arguments have been put forward to support the benefits claimed to arise from mature enterprise architecture management and a considerable amount of literature describes the components of mature (successful) enterprise architecture management. However,...
For the purpose of better understanding the sociopsychological factors involved in an individual's coping process towards technochanges, this study examines how the social capital derived from two types of social networks - supportive and informational - influences individual adaptation to the new ICT and its related performance. Based on the social network theory and the coping theory, we establish...
IS/IT outsourcing has been a rich source for discussion since the much-vaunted agreement between Kodak and IBM in July 1989. With agreements signed for between 5 and 10 years in general, what happens at the end of an outsourcing agreement, or when the circumstances in an organisation change and the outsourcing agreement is reviewed? In 2005, a survey by Deloitte found that 1 in 4 major companies in...
In order to improve guiding work for graduation design, new guiding organization style was found. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and compare two organization styles (old and new) from information flow aspect. Based on entropy theory, efficiency entropy and quality entropy were introduced to evaluate the order degree of system structure. Efficiency entropy reflects uncertainty degree of information...
Numerous studies conducted on the information technology (IT) acceptance specifically in developing and less-developed countries indicates the importance of acceptance as a substantial stage in the process of IT implementation. Perceiving problems, opportunities, threats and fundamentals makes this process more convenient. Considering numerous researches in the field of IT acceptance, this study provides...
The organizational goal of the enterprises is to meet stakeholder interests and profit goals. Due to the communication of information and communication barriers, the enterprise group of stakeholders in the process of core competence is influenced by the enterprise operation and management control ability level. Because the enterprise stakeholders has different abilities to influence the whole organization,...
The extent of the successfulness of an organization's information systems would start at the very beginning, even before it is implemented. In other words the success of a system would be determined at the very beginning of its implementation project; from identification of requirements to the final implementation and go live phase. Hence the sequence of activities occurring according to a preplanned...
Throughout the human history that dates back to millions of years the footprints are abundant to illustrate that living with technologies have continuously induced major impacts on the human, social, and organizational transformations. The attributes of human living today and the manner in which the modern societies and organizations are formed indicate a remarkable difference in comparison to the...
Rapid development of IT enables more professional buyers to put even more pressure on manufacturing enterprise's margins. Existing literatures recommend the transition from basic product offerings to service-based offerings in order to regain competitiveness in such a context. This requires manufacturing enterprises to change existing innovation organizational structure based on the requirements of...
With the development of internet and information technology, there will be more enterprises to apply eHRM( electronic Human Resource Management) in China. This new technique has improved industrial production. There are many problems in China's current eHRM. This article analyzes the current situation about e-HRM in China, then puts forward countermeasures, this will lead human resources management...
Despite the large-scale adoption of enterprise resource planning (ERP), attaining the expected benefits is still a challenging task. Organizational culture,a representative of holistic organizational context, is always neglected by prior studies when focusing on ERP assimilation. Through analyzing relative literatures, this paper drew upon five dimensions (interpersonal harmony, outcome orientation,...
Connection with the actual using issues of inter-organizational information systems(IOS), this study focuses on analysis assimilation of inter-organizational information systems in the post-implementation stage within organizations. Based on knowledge related theory, we discuss the organizational knowledge application process how to influence IOS assimilation, building a theoretical model of relationships...
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