This research addresses the theoretically neglected question of how the internal diffusion of inter-organizational systems (IOS) into a firm's activities and its external diffusion into the supply chain partners influence performance improvement. Drawing on the resource-based view, our research...

This research examined the current status of the movie genre usage in movie research and film industry and introduced a new method to classify movies. Using a large-scale audience survey data, the authors clustered movies into 9 distinct types based on 8 audience-perceived movie characteristics...

Among the potential determinants of consumers’ commitments to online shopping site are information features of the Web site, because online shopping consumers have to base their judgment solely on the product or service information presented on the site. When consumers are satisfied with...

The results of this study indicate that the aspect of cognitive style addressed in "the Minnesota experiments" may pertain to a decision maker's choice of a planned or spontaneous solution strategy. Whether or not such a characterization is equivalent to an analytic-heuristic classification is...

Because many organizations have not been successful in introducing new task and managerial methods into the workplace, considerable attention has been directed toward developing a more complete understanding of organizational innovation. Three separate literatures (organizational science,...

Based on the innovation and technological diffusion literatures, promising research questions concerning the implementation of a production and inventory control information system (material requirements planning: MRP) are identified and empirically examined. These questions focus on the...

Centralization and formalization have previously been employed in research designs investigating organizational innovation. The results, however, have been mixed. Three arguments are raised toward explaining this inconsistency. First, innovation is a multi-phased process in which the influence...