Information Infrastructure Centrality in the Agile Organization

Morris, Steven A.; McManus, Denise J.

doi:10.1201/1078/43202.19.4.20020901/38830.2

Cited by 25 publications

(3 citation statements)

References 9 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…The volatility of markets, the hyper-competitive economic environment, the new threats of globalization, and the knowledge-based competition induced by accelerating technological change explain the current managerial practice of engaging in organizational experiments without the support of validated theories (Daft & Lewin, 1993). Examples of experiments carried out by managers (Daft & Lewin, 1993) consist in agile, modular, cluster, learning, or network organizations, in virtual or spinout corporations, and even in perpetual matrix (Miles & Snow 1986, Bartlett & Ghoshal 1989, Morris & McManus, 2006. These new organizational forms share a number of elements, such as decentralized decision-making processes, self-organizing units, flatter hierarchies, permeable boundaries (both external and internal), employee empowerment, renewal capacity, and coordination mechanisms characterized by self-integration (Daft & Lewin, 1993).…”

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning in an agile setting: A multilevel research study on the evolution of organizational routines

Annosi

Martini

Brunetta

et al. 2020

Journal of Business Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Recognizing a serious lack of research on routinized individual actions and organizational adaptation in the stability-change paradox, we intend to provide an in-depth explanation of the way in which agile methods affect organizational learning in self-managed, team-based organizations, taking a multi-level evolutionary approach. We explore learning in agile organizations by breaking the analysis of organizational routines down into different levels -individual, team and organization -and describing the process of variation, selection and retention of routines at each level. Leveraging on multiple case studies, we discuss how team members learn and gain knowledge, from both direct and indirect experience, and analyze how teams develop conceptual frameworks and interpret those experiences. Finally, we discuss how organizational memory develops and how teams in agile organizations adapt simultaneously within an ecological structure that also comprises the changing environment. Our findings reveal substantial flaws in the capacity of agile methods to foster organizational learning.

show abstract

Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

Learning in an agile setting: A multilevel research study on the evolution of organizational routines

Annosi

Martini

Brunetta

et al. 2020

Journal of Business Research

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…We see ISs as one of the pillars supporting an organization and generating competitive ad-vantages, instead of an independent and reactive object [Morris and McManus, 2002]. An organization consists of many elements that depend on the performance of each other and on the capabilities that arrange the elements.…”

Section: ⅰ Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Information Systems for Organizational Agility: Action Research on Resource Scheduling at the Universidad de Chile

Seo¹,

Paz²,

Miranda³

2014

APJIS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Organizations need to exhibit characteristics of agility to stay ahead of their competitors and to survive in dynamic environments. One major concern for organizations is how to implement Information Systems (ISs) to enhance their agility. Organizations tend to spend too many resources to change their entire IS instead of only the components that cause problems without exactly knowing whether it enables or suppress organizational agility. To address these shortcomings and practical issues, we provide a framework to assess organizational agility and to diagnose a problem related to IS. By applying this prototype of the Agility Framework, we were able to diagnose a problem that the department of Management Control and Information Systems at the Universidad de Chile had and planned actions for them to improve its organizational agility with a course scheduling system, eClasSkeduler. This action research, which took more than 25-month for the first cycle, further develops the Agility Framework, which not only provides a way to link IS with organizational functions but also illustrates how to use it to diagnose a situation and plan actions for improving organizational agility through an information system.

show abstract

“…De manera general, las sedes de las agencias y las unidades operacionales de cada una de ellas, están ubicadas en diferentes locaciones físicas, con el objetivo de permitir que el sistema de una cobertura completa y ágil a toda la zona de interés. La descentralización es una característica esencial dentro de los SGE, para aprovechar su carácter distribuido, y permitir que se tomen decisiones en los bordes de la red, promoviendo la escalabilidad y flexibilidad del sistema [101] [123].…”

Section: Figura 44 Modelo Organizacional Multigrupounclassified

Técnicas de Calidad Total aplicadas a los Sistemas de Gestión de Emergencias

Vizuete¹,

Marcelo²

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The series of natural disasters that take place in recent years around the world have highlighted the existing shortcomings when facing an emergency situation. Despite the efforts and resources invested, emergencies continue to cause unacceptable damages and losses in the social nuclei in which they have been presented. Fires such as those in Spain and Portugal (2017), the earthquake in Nepal (2015), the tsunami in Indonesia (2010), or Hurricane Katrina in the United States (2005), confirm these problems and the urgent need to solve them.

show abstract

Information Infrastructure Centrality in the Agile Organization

Cited by 25 publications

References 9 publications

Learning in an agile setting: A multilevel research study on the evolution of organizational routines

Learning in an agile setting: A multilevel research study on the evolution of organizational routines

Information Systems for Organizational Agility: Action Research on Resource Scheduling at the Universidad de Chile

Técnicas de Calidad Total aplicadas a los Sistemas de Gestión de Emergencias

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About