This paper examines the organizational issues that arise when an organization transforms its IT infrastructure. The unanticipated changes in the IT infrastructure forced IS personnel to set new priorities that caused delays in other aspects of their work. There are several problems such as...

Reengineering is becoming an increasingly popular option for corporations seeking radical process change. Central to the success of reengineering is the coordination of information technology (IT) throughout the organization. Essentially, IT represents the core mechanism of information flow....

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to conduct empirical investigation of value co-creation phenomena in IT services outsourcing. This survey based research enabled to identify antecedents of value co-creation and their impact on value outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – This...

Purpose – There is an emerging recognition in the strategy field that differences in organization forms represent firms’ capability to gain benefit from investing in technology. This study has intention to add to this stream of research by proposing the technological turbulence (TT) as a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the main types of sector-based resistance that affect the success of the innovation, and specifically the Internet of Things (IoT), with particular reference to professional football, as a prime example of how institutions can prevent the IoT...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the extant literature about the exploitation of Internet of Things (IoT) in seaports by illustrating in detail how such IT infrastructures can impact on the redesign of their business processes. Thus, the research question of the study...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to understand how business process configurations influence motivation among process participants. Design/methodology/approach – An experiment was conducted in which business process rules complexity, work backlog, and case distribution method were...

Several world‐class companies have re‐designed or re‐engineered – their business processes with considerable success. However, failure rates of some 70 per cent have been reported in BPR projects. This may be due to focusing on operational and implementation issues, bypassing strategic...

Explores the reorganization of a sales and distribution operation. Describes a case study in which an integrated yet flexible organization was created by focusing strongly on identifying and re‐engineering the core business process. Presents a structured approach which was developed in the...

Investigates company Web sites and the use by them of IT. Posits that some companies are too much in a hurry to understand what is going on in IT, while others are just plain scared of the new technology. Looks at risk with regard to security and whether risk is changing for better or worse....