Exploring Cause, Taxonomies, Mechanisms and Barriers Influencing Knowledge Transfer: Empirical Studies in NGOs

Knowledge transfer is one of the significant elements in the knowledge management process. Knowledge transferors share different types of knowledge with the recipients with a view to fulfilling the latter's knowledge needs. The importance of identifying the appropriate knowledge transfer mechanisms and the barriers to knowledge transfer are paramount. However, neither the knowledge management literature nor the NGO-sector literature has adequately addressed the issues of causes of knowledge transfer, taxonomies of knowledge, mechanisms and barriers of knowledge transfer in comprehensive way in the context of the Bangladeshi NGO sector. The highest number of NGOs in the world is deployed in Bangladesh. Little is known about such transfer within the NGO context based in Bangladesh. This paper makes an endeavour to bridge these grey areas of knowledge management and NGO-sector. Having collected the qualitative data from Bangladeshi NGOs and using the content analysis technique, the study identified the causes of knowledge transfer, taxonomies of knowledge, mechanisms of knowledge transfer and the barriers to knowledge transfer in the context of Bangladesh. By understanding the mechanisms and the determinants of knowledge transfer, company and NGO managers and public policy makers can influence knowledge transfer more effectively. Future researchers may extend this study by carrying out similar research in a different context.</p

Understanding the Relationship between Organizational and Individual Adoption of IT Innovations: Literature Review and Analysis

Researchers who study IT innovations aim to understand the relationship between two different loci of adoption1 – individual adoption and organizational adoption. A first step is diagnosis of the current state of empirical research on IT innovation adoption. We analyzed 486 relationships between independent variables (IVs) and dependent variables (DVs) found in 89 empirical studies of which 45 studied individual adoption and 44 studied organizational adoption. We categorized 135 IVs into 4 classes (organizational variables such as top management support, individual variables such as age, innovation variables such as relative advantage, and environment variables such as external pressure). We classified 25 DVs into 8 classes (perceived systems use, intention to use, adoption, diffusion, rate of adoption, outcomes, actual system use, and time of adoption). We analyzed the 486 relationships between the 4 classes of independent variables and the 8 classes of dependent variables across all 89 studies and also by locus of adoption (individual or organizational). Two classes of independent variables (organizational and innovation characteristics) are systematically used – and more importantly – found to be significant, whether researchers are studying individual or organizational adoption. This suggests that there is indeed a relationship between individual adoption and organizational adoption. We have many other interesting findings (gaps in research, most studied IVs and DVs, most frequently/least frequently found to be significant IVs, etc.), but consider this a work in progress. We anticipate that DIGIT members will use our findings to integrate individual and organizational adoption theories

On Understanding Preference for Agile Methods Among Software Developers

Agile methods are gaining widespread use in industry. Although management is keen on adopting agile, not all developers exhibit preference for agile methods. The literature is sparse in regard to why developers may show preference for agile. Understanding the factors informing the preference for agile can lead to more effective formation of teams, better training approaches, and optimizing software development efforts by focusing on key desirable components of agile. This study, using a grounded theory methodology, finds a variety of categories of factors that influence software developer preference for agile methods including self-efficacy, affective response, interpersonal response, external contingencies, and personality contingencies. Each of these categories contains multiple dimensions. Preference rationalization for agile methods is the core category that emerges from the data. It informs that while the very essence of agile methods overwhelmingly and positively resonates with software developers, the preference is contingent on external and personality factors as well

An agile business process and practice meta-model

Business Process Management (BPM) encompasses the discovery, modelling, monitoring, analysis and improvement of business processes. Limitations of traditional BPM approaches in addressing changes in business requirements have resulted in a number of agile BPM approaches that seek to accelerate the redesign of business process models. Meta-models are a key BPM feature that reduce the ambiguity of business process models. This paper describes a meta-model supporting the agile version of the Business Process and Practice Alignment Methodology (BPPAM) for business process improvement, which captures process information from actual work practices. The ability of the meta-model to achieve business process agility is discussed and compared with other agile meta-models, based on definitions of business process flexibility and agility found in the literature. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V

Strategic determinants of big data analytics in the AEC sector: a multi-perspective framework

With constant flow of large data sets generated by different organisations, big data analytics promises to be a revolutionary game changer for Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. Despite the potential of Big Data, there has been little research conducted thus far to understand the Big Data phenomenon, specifically in the AEC industry. The objective of this research therefore is to understand the contributing factors for adopting big data in AEC firms. The investigation combined the perceived strategic value of BDA with the TOE framework (technology, organization, and environment), to develop and test a holistic model on big data adoption. A set of hypotheses derived from the extant literature was tested on data from structured surveys of about 365 firms, categorised as construction service firms (engineering and architecture) and construction firms (firms engaged in managing construction projects). The results indicated that the inhibitors and facilitators of BDA adoption are different in the construction services (architecture and engineering) and construction firms. For effective adoption of BDA solutions, the findings will guide the business managers to have realistic expectations of BDA integration challenges in AEC sector

Intensi Penggunaan E-Commerce Tokopedia Salam: Adopsi Teori Technology Acceptance Model (TAM)

Penelitian ini di dasarkan pada fenomena masalah penurunan pengunjung e-commerce Tokopedia pada kuartal ketiga tahun 2019 saat Tokopedia Salam diluncurkan. Penyebab fenomena tersebut terlihat dari kurangnya niat kaum muslim dalam menggunakan fitur baru Tokopedia Salam. Kehadiran fitur baru Tokopedia Salam belum benar-benar mengisi potensi pasar di Indonesia. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui gambaran aktual mengenai perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness dan intention to use pada penggunaan e-commerce Tokopedia Salam. Selain itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh perceived ease of use terhadap perceived usefulness, pengaruh perceived usefulness terhadap intention to use pengaruh perceived ease of use terhadap intention to use dan untuk mengetahui bagaimana perceived usefulness dapat menjadi variabel intervening antara perceived ease of use terhadap intention to use, menggunakan teori Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Jumlah sampel yang digunakan sebanyak 203 responden muslim yang sudah menggunakn e-commerce tokopedia dan mengetahui kehadiran fitur baru Tokopedia Salam. Penelitian ini menggunakan path analysis untuk mengidentifikasi perceived ease of use terhadap intention to use melalui perceived usefulness. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukan bahwa perceived ease of use dan perceived usefulness terhadap intention to use fitur baru Tokopedia Salam ada pada ketegori tinggi. Perceived ease of use terhadap intention to use melalui perceived usefulness berpengaruh signifikan dan ada pada kategori tinggi. Penelitian ini diharapkan mampu memberikan manfaat bagi berbagai pihak dalam meningkatkan intention to use pada fitur baru Tokopedia Salam sebagai platform e-commerce yang sesuai dengan prinsip syariah dengan didorong oleh kemudahan penggunaan dan manfaat yang dirasakan pengguna. This research is based on the phenomenon of the decline to Tokopedia e-commerce visitors in the third quarter of 2019 when the new feature Tokopedia Salam was launched. The cause of the phenomenon is the lack of intention to use the new feature Tokopedia Salam. The presence of new feature Tokopedia Salam has not really filled the market potential in Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to find out the actual picture of perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness and intention to use in the use of Tokopedia Salam e-commerce. In addition, this study aims to determine the effect of perceived ease of use on perceived usefulness, the effect of perceived usefulness on intention to use the effect of perceived ease of use on intention to use and to find out how perceived usefulness can be an intervening variable between perceived ease of use against intention to use, using the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) theory. The number of samples used was 203 muslim respondents who already used Tokopedia e-commerce and know the presence of the new feature Tokopedia Salam. This study uses path analysis to identify perceived ease of use of intention to use through perceived usefulness. The results of this study indicate that the perceived ease of use and perceived usefulness of intention to use new feature Tokopedia Salam are in the high category. Perceived ease of use of intention to use through perceived usefulness has a significant effect and is in the high category. This research is expected to be able to provide benefits for various parties in increasing the intention to use the new feature Tokopedia Salam as an e-commerce platform that complies with sharia principles, and driven by ease of use and the usefull by users

Using Social Network Analysis to Analyze Relationships Among IS Journals

Social network analysis (SNA) offers a richer and more objective way of examining individual journal influence and relationships among journals than studies based on individual perceptions, since it avoids personal biases. This article demonstrates how SNA can be used to study the nature of the IS discipline, by presenting results from an exploratory SNA of 125 previously ranked journals from IS and allied disciplines. While many of the most prominent journals in the network are still associated with IS’s foundational disciplines, we identify several IS journals that play important roles in disseminating information throughout different subcomponents of the network. We also identify related groups of journals based not only on patterns of information flow, but also on similarity in citation patterns. This enables us to identify the core set of journals that is important for “pure IS” research, as well as other subsets of journals that are important for specialty areas of interest. Overall, results indicate that the IS discipline is still somewhat fragmented and is still a net receiver, as opposed to a net provider, of information from allied disciplines. Like other forms of analysis, SNA is not entirely free from biases. However, these biases can be systematically researched in order to develop an improved, consistent tool with which to examine the IS field via citations among member journals. Thus, while many challenges remain in applying SNA techniques to the study of IS journals, the opportunity to track trends in the discipline over time, with a larger basket of journals, suggests a number of valuable future applications of SNA for understanding the IS publication system

Challenges of enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation in agriculture

The underlying assumption of the study is that ERP systems can crucially facilitate information exchange; yet, the agricultural sector is slow in their adoption due to different reasons, including a shortage of skilled personnel as well as a lack of knowledge about ERP capabilities among top managers and key employees. The study intends to identify challenges and prospects for ERP implementation in agriculture. The applied methods include the analysis of WoS publications and questionnaire surveys of executives of 55 companies operating in the Middle Urals’ agricultural sector. ERP systems can be defined as comprehensive software solutions aimed to integrate business and management processes through a holistic approach and a single information system. According to expert estimates, in today’s Russia the projects related to the agro-industrial sector account for 1-2% to 10-15% of the projects from the leading ERP vendors, including 1C, Bars Group, and Navigator-Agro. ERP systems in agriculture help improve business performance, reduce and monitor costs. These systems are effective in decision-making and can serve as the basis for precision agriculture. The main barriers are poor personnel skills and competencies, shortage of funds for ERP adoption, poorly developed or absent infrastructure, difficulties of fitting and adapting of ERP systems to agricultural business. In addition, agricultural business owners show no confidence in high-tech solutions and poor knowledge of the above systems. Other problems include operation complexity and insufficient government support in ERP implementation. The results of the study can be used by government authorities in their programs for innovative development and technical upgrading of the agriculture industry. © 2020 by author(s) and VsI Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center.Russian Foundation for Basic Research, RFBR: 19-41-000001, 19-41-000001, 19-41-000001, 19-41-000001Russian Foundation for Basic Research, RFBR: 19-41-000001, 19-41-000001, 19-41-000001, 19-41-000001The reported study was funded by RFBR and Sverdlovsk region, project number 19-41-000001, Russian FederationThe reported study was funded by RFBR and Sverdlovsk region, project number 19-41-000001, Russian Federatio

EDMS Use in Local E-Government: Extent of Use and Overall Performance Mediated by Routinization and Infusion

This study analyzes the effects of several post-adoption behaviors (extent of use, routinization and infusion) on overall performance in using an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS). Furthermore, we test whether the routinization and infusion variables mediate the influence of the extent of use on overall performance. This research collects data from a survey answered by 2,175 employees (EDMS users) of Portuguese municipalities. The Partial Least Squares technique is applied to test the model. The results showed that routinization is directly predicted by the extent of use, whereas infusion is directly affected by the extent of use and also by routinization. Consequently, such post-adoptive behaviors are interrelated not only in a sequential process, but also in parallel. In addition, overall performance is directly influenced by routinization and infusion. Finally, an indirect effects analysis shows that routinization and infusion mediate the relationship between extent of use and overall performance