Business model describes the company’s most important activities, proposed value, and the compensation for the value. Business model visualization enables to simply and systematically capture and describe the most important components of the business model while the standardization of the...

Mit ihren vier Perspektiven - finanzielle Perspektive, Kundenperspektive, interne Prozeßperspektive sowie Lern- und Entwicklungsperspektive - informiert die Balanced Scorecard in einem ausgewogenen Bild über die aktuelle Zielerreichung und die zukünftigen Erfolgsmöglichkeiten eines...

The competitive global market climate of the new millennium has raised awareness of business processes as the most important management paradigm (Levi, 2002). Consequently, process elements, as well as process-based organizational solutions, have become an emergent need. However, the question is...

This study examines leadership succession among university presidents. Strategy researchers have emphasized that changing leaders is an important organizational decision which is likely to affect the strategic direction of the organization (e.g. Hambrick/Fukutomi 1991). Using longitudinal data...

Based on the literatures of organizational learning and change, this research continues to focus on the individual level of learning in organization. Individual learning comprises of at least the cognitive and behavioral aspects as the two represent two different phenomenon and complementary to...

We build upon a renewed typology of organizational configurations, as a starting point towards a new theory of strategic and organizational change. Four configurations are identified. Each of them consists of a specific set of four attributes: knowledge types, organizational forms, societal...

Globalization determines rapid environmentally changes intensifying the competition. All the organizations are facing the change. In this paper we present the necessity of change, the phases of change, the forms and dynamic of change. To conclude, the change is one of the essential elements...

In the past decades, the potential of information systems to support organizational activities and to attain competitive advantage has been widely recognised by academic literature as well as the business community. IS planning methods have been constructed in an attempt to use IS successfully...

Companies are installing groupware to gain more efficiency. This article is based on a research done at a global leasing company to the high-order effects of groupware. The groupware was used by an international european team in the company developping a new database. The major effects of using...

Serendipity plays an important role in science and technology development. This article investigates serendipity as a potential mechanism of change in management areas such as technology management, strategy and organization. The mechanism will be described and conditions that support or hinder...