Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of three strategies - organisational, business and information system – in post implementation of technological innovations. The findings reported in the paper are that improvements in operational performance can only be achieved by...

Organisations are increasingly investing in complex technological innovations, such as enterprise information systems, with the aim of improving the operation of the business, and in this way gaining competitive advantage. However, the implementation of technological innovations tends to have an...

Organisations are increasingly investing in complex technological innovations such as enterprise information systems with the aim of improving the operations of the business, and in this way gaining competitive advantage. However, the implementation of technological innovations tends to have an...

Organisations are increasingly investing in complex technological innovations such as enterprise information systems with the aim of improving the operations of the business, and in this way gaining competitive advantage. However, the implementation of technological innovations tends to have an...

This paper aims to use institutional theory to explore the role of humanresource (HR) practices as carriers in the evolution of interdependent supplyrelationships. Design/methodology/approach – This is a qualitative study of aninter-firm supply relationship where the two partners were...

This paper aims to explore the influence of human resource (HR) practices inshaping inter-organisational supply relationships, and to describe the extent towhich supply partners seek to adapt their internal HR practices to the externalrelationship. Design/methodology/approach -...

This research investigates the new psychological contract phenomenon in an organisational case study. The research question underpinning this study is - What are the core attributes of the new employment relationship? To investigate this research question, the researcher applied Noer's (1997)...

This study focuses on the determinants for the development of a human resource strategyin the Provincial Government Western Cape (PGWC).The context is that a new regulatoryframework for human resource development in South Africa, namely the National HumanResource Development Strategy (NHRDS) was...

Organizations are faced with competitive and changeable environments whichdemand more prepared employees to successfully cope with these current and futurechallenges (Oswick, Grant, Michelson, and Wailes, 2005). Organizations, as a way to copewith more hostile environments, may foster individual...

The purpose of this study is to reveal, through the use of case study methodology, howfaculty collaboration may foster the development of intellectual capital and how organizationalreward systems mediate this process. Collaboration has been chosen as the unit of analysis due tothe collaborative...