The literature of organizational capabilities has overlooked the role of values. We present an institutionalist view of the capability phenomenon accounting for the values occurring in three levels: in the action at routine level, at the organization level and at the institutional environment...

Does organizational governance contribute to academic quality? Two top research universities are observed in-depth: Berkeley and the MIT. Three key factors are listed that help generate consistent and lasting high performance. Priority is allocated to self-evaluation and to the development of...

As the workshop’s fourth session will concentrate on the subject of rules and regulations in organizations. In the context of global competition and the global crisis experienced by most countries all over the world, one of the question raised is how linking materiality with discourse,...

Space reconfiguration and architecture is an important element for organizations (Berg & Kreiner, 1992). Thus, a new/building office inauguration is always an important moment of organizational life. It implies great changes and provide a great opportunity to scan organizational culture as long...

In this conceptual study we first categorize, from existing literature, different conceptions of culture rooted in Anthropology and Sociology. We argue that these conceptions build up the logical structure of specific theoretical and empirical tools which address human/IS interactions in a...

Organizations, in this paper, are presented as being non-linear dynamic complex systems. The paper gives a critical introduction to the different complexity theories. It shows how these theories could be used in organization research. The different complexity theories which are described are :...