...Abhishek Narain Singh; M.P. Gupta; Amitabh Ojha Purpose – Despite many technically sophisticated solutions, managing information security has remained a persistent challenge for organizations. Emerging IT/ICT media have posed new security challenges to business information and information assets...

... and formative, which means that the other aspects are ignored or repressed throughout the organization. All these qualifying aspects include both positive and negative norms but for three of them (analytical, economic and formative) the positive norms are dominant. Regarding the pistic aspect, even though...

... such as web content management, may find themselves obsolete unless they are able to distinguish themselves. Also, the author makes two important suggestions: organizations should adopt the ECM suite that aligns with the corporate objectives, and ECM vendors should be evaluated based on their long‐term...

...Maqsood Sandhu; Mian Ajmal Purpose This research aims to investigate the adoption of electronic communication tools and seeks to shed more light on their diffusion process, a challenging task for project‐based (PBO) and traditional business organizations (TBO). Design/methodology/approach...

...Terence Love; Bryn Tellefsen This paper applies new empirically‐based knowledge in the area of constituent market orientation to a seven‐element taxonometric model of virtual organisation. The most effective distribution of resources and management attention in the development of combinations...

... on theories‐in‐use and practice into a basic model for senior managers and IT practitioners. Senior management (client) ignorance of IT applications and their potential ramifications throughout the adoptive organisation was identified as a prime contributor to project failure. Two respondents noted...

... information supply chains and routes can be organised and navigated across networked enterprise activities is specified, designed and realised in a conceptual way within the context of a branch independent model that builds on the fractal idea by supporting self‐similarity, self‐organisation, self...

..., has been focused on understanding why firms outsource (the adoption decision) and what factors make for a successful outsourcing episode (the contract process). Consequently, there has been little that addresses the comprehensive effects of outsourcing on the organizations involved in the decision...

...Robert Halhead The logistics industry has had to respond quickly to help organizations survive the harsh business climate of the early 1990s. Demonstrates how this is being achieved by re‐engineering the flow of information around organizations to save money, speed production cycles,improve...

...Robbie Burns The classic marketing disciplines can no longer sustain continued growth of organizations. Top companies owe their success not only to strong brands and corporate image but also to sheer capability to achieve. Managing the supply chain is all‐important, involving strategic intent...

... of management,and information technology can now transform the use of this information to give managers substantial benefits in business planning and decision making. © MCB UP Limited 1993 Decision making Effectiveness Information technology Management Organizational change Organizations...

...Vincent‐Wayne Mitchell The use of organisms as a parallel to enable better understanding of organisations has been used infrequently in marketing. The organismic metaphor is brought to the attention of the marketing community. The power of the metaphor is established by making physical...

... INFORMATION SYSTEMS 19 of the EDI information. EDI-II therefore encourages and provides an infrastructure to allow an organisation to integrate fully all its internal business applications and systems. This allows for the more efficient and effective use of manpower and systems in an organisation. Companies...