Human Factors, the so-called Soft Issues, play a vital role in highlighting the differencebetween success and failure for any project where people are involved, resistance tochange, both at a personal and organizational level, being one such factor. In this paper,we report the findings of two...

This paper provides estimates for the Mercosur countries of the Frisch elasticity —i.e., the elasticity of substitution betweenworked hours and real wages holding constant the marginal utility of wealth—. We find a strong heterogeneity, with estimated elasticities ranging from 12.8 in...

The applicability of Passive Downdraught Evaporative Cooling (PDEC) for reducing energy consumption in hot dry climates is reviewed. A new EC Joule project explaining the application of PDEC in non-domestic buildings is described. The building performance assessment methodology which employs...

This paper reports empirical fmdings (using Action Research) of an industrial case studyaimed at identifying and understanding the influence of organizational culture on the processof adopting and diffusing a software engineering process. The organization under study isgoing through a...

This paper is seeking to make a contribution through exploring project management from the perspective of information systems (IS) investment evaluation. Organizational investments in IS are significant in financial terms and, as a result, management would appear set to increasingly scrutinize...

With the rapidly decreasing price of the RFID tag, its adoption and utilisation is increasing swiftly in various contexts including organisations for supply chain management, hospitals for various types of uses and other public sector organisations. Inline with its rapid adoption, researchers...

Growing competition and choice in the offshore outsourcing field has gradually altered the way organisations select and approach outsourcing contracts. In declining economic conditions organisations are even more concerned than before about the value proposition and risk involved in signing over...

Although manufacturing information and data systems (MIDS) form an integral part of a manufacturing organization's infrastructure, the growth of corporate IT expenditure has left many companies questioning the value of their MIDS deployment. The use of traditional appraisal techniques to justify...

Recent developments in the field of integration technologies like Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) have emerged to support organizations towards improving the quality of services and reducing integration costs. Despite the importance of EAI, there is limited empirical research reported...

The research in this paper considers the complex and dynamic arrangements for potential and actual knowledge sharing in interorganizational networks. The essence of this stance is that “knowledge” relates to affirmative managerial action beyond the necessary collection of information...