...Isidoro Romero Purpose This study aims to explain how information technology (IT)-enabled organizational change occurs at varying rates due to the specific characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The paper investigates the primary determinants of IT-enabled organizational...

...Fevzi Okumus; Anil Bilgihan; Ahmet Bulent Ozturk; Xinyuan (Roy) Zhao Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate potential barriers to deployment of information technology (IT) projects and evaluate strategies to overcome them in hotel companies. Design/methodology/approach Empirical...

... Organizational change Change management Information technology Michel Foucault A growing body of research in organizational science explores the concepts of contradiction and paradox, recognizing the complexity and ambiguity of organizational life (Cameron and Quinn, 1988 ; Hundsnes and Meyer, 2006...

... complementary capabilities to achieve competitive advantages of EO, it will be more likely to develop an EO. Entrepreneurialism Information technology Communication technologies Marketing Entrepreneurial orientation Dynamism Technology capabilities Marketing capabilities Moderating effect...

...Peter Dobers; Lars Strannegård In an increasingly connected age, information technology can be argued to have become more politicized. The attempts to establish network technologies to promote the development of an information society are tokens of an increasingly vested interest that politics has...

...June Tolsby Illustrates how the implementation of a major information technology (IT) system within the Norwegian Army affected the way the employees perceived their flexibility and personal involvement in their work. By employing Taylor’s initial works, this paper illustrates how the introduction...

... UP Limited 2000 Trade unions Virtual companies Information technology Denmark Scandinavia Change managers can – with some friction – use information and communication technologies (ICT) to transform organisations into networks of spaces, where information and even physical flows...

... of organisation development (Frohman et al., 1976; Weisbord, 1987; Burke, 1994; Rothwell et al., 1995; French and Bell, 1999). Argyris et al. (1985) summarize Lewin’s concept of action research: Action research Organizational change Information technology When...

...Giovanni Masino The relevance of information technology is becoming crucial for most organizations. Learning processes and coordination arrangements are deeply influenced by technological advances. Empirical evidence shows that complex and apparently contradictory outcomes usually result from...

...Sam K. Steffensen Linking informational network and organizational change theories with the multi‐faceted transformations taking place in global competition, in particular the economic recession in the Asia‐Pacific and information technological progress, the paper focuses on two major issues: first...

... and organizational change together. © MCB UP Limited 1998 BPR Communication technology Cost reduction Customer satisfaction Information technology Total quality management (TQM) was once a good fad, but now, according to Business Week, “it is dead like a pet rock” (Byrne, 1997...

... as a component of resource‐based theory. Concludes that organizational learning is itself a strategic capability or resource important to the process of building and maintaining competitive advantage. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Competitive advantage Information technology Organizational learning...

...Carolyn Green; Karen Ruhleder Discusses the visions of “global villages”,“borderless worlds” and “towers of Babel” which,according to the visionaries of our day, we are heading towards,enhanced by the rapid development of communications and information technologies. Explores the shortcomings...