This paper describes a new systematic method for exploring and evaluating alternatives of a product design process for differentiated products - those that share some elements but also have differentiating features. Based on coordination theory, the method clarifies the opportunities and risks...

Transfer pricing provides management with an efficient tool for coordinating the use of information system services. In practice these services, if they are charged out to end users, are priced via an allocation of historical costs based on individual usage, or are assigned a price based on the...

Previous research identified that the delivery of integrated IT services requires intensive coordination. The aim of this research is to create a deeper understanding in how a vendor coordinates the delivery of integrated IT services to their clients as part of an outsourcing arrangement. This...

Purpose – The food and beverage industry, particularly the agro-processing and packaging industry, plays a critical role in the economies of Latin America and Caribbean countries. To remain competitive and to increase competitiveness, companies operating in this industry must achieve...

In this study, we first examine the relative impact of integration (both internal integration and external integration) on plant performance. Internal integration is operationalized as process integration which includes both information management and statistical process control. External...

The Virtual Design Team (VDT) extends and operationalizes Galbraith's (1973) information-processing view of organizations. VDT simulates the micro-level information processing, communication, and coordination behavior of participants in a project organization and predicts several measures of...

This paper presents the results of a qualitative review and synthesis of the literature on open source governance, addressing four key questions: (1) How has open source software (OSS) governance been defined? (2) Has the phenomenon of OSS governance been conceptualized as a monolithic or...

This paper describes a framework for the coordination and integration of information systems. By modeling typical enterprise information systems as consisting of multiple agents with different functionalities, the methodology provides the representational formalism, coordination mechanisms, and...

This paper deals with a connection between financial and quality management systems. These departments only rarely cooperate on projects, which could be a loss, because this connection has many improvement opportunities. The author shows through the simple example of catering deliveries a...

This report describes the research and policy context for the evaluation, logic model underlying the projects, and selection of the random assignment sites and enrollment of youth. It also presents comprehensive designs for the process, cost, impact, and benefit-cost analyses, and concludes with...