The Role of Inspirational Leadership and Technology Support for Contextualization on Psychological Contract in Distributed Teams

This study investigates how inspirational leadership and technology support for contextualization influence individuals’ psychological contract and knowledge sharing in distributed teams. Drawing on the intersection between social identity, psychological contract and leadership theories, the current research highlights the importance of inspirational leaders who foster two kinds of psychological contract obligations, namely commitment and reciprocity. The results show a significant impact of inspirational leaders on psychological contract obligations. The impact of inspirational leadership on obligations of reciprocity is strengthened when there is technology support for contextualization. Our findings suggest that psychological contract obligations can motivate employees to engage in knowledge sharing. This provides interesting implications for theory and practice in distributed teams

HARVESTING SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE:SOCIAL NETWORKS AND KNOWLEDGE IN TECHNOLOGY-MEDIATED TEAMS

Ph.DDOCTOR OF PHILOSOPH

Mobile ICT and Knowledge Sharing in Underserved Communities

Organizing principles, exchange relationships, and technology affordance of underserved communities in emerging markets are different from privileged communities, which have been the focus in traditional information systems literature. This paper investigates mobile ICT and knowledge sharing in a rural farming community in India. Our qualitative field study reveals that value creating and value claiming norms are key enablers of knowledge sharing in underserved communities. The findings also identify the communication mechanisms and challenges of mobile ICT innovations that foster knowledge sharing among dispersed underserved communities. We discuss the implications for theory and suggest a practical guide to enhance knowledge sharing in underserved communities

Creative Performance in Mediated Communication: The Contextual Effects of Communication Media

Acknowledging that cognitive limit may constrain creativity, researchers have begun identifying social networks as sources of diverse knowledge. According to previous literature, weak ties result in infrequent interactions, low level of knowledge redundant, thus ease the access to diverse knowledge and improve creative performance. As technology advances, organizations bring appropriate employees to work on a project regardless of their locations, employees are working geographically distributed and communicate with communication media. Thus this taken-for-granted relationship between weak ties and creativity has to be contextualized in the context of mediated communication where employees nowadays rely heavily on various communication media. In this study we build on literature on social networks on creativity and communication media research to hypothesize that network ties will create opportunities for diverse information, and extend this stream of research by investigating untested contextual effects of communication media on moderating the relationship between network ties and creativity

THE IMPLEMENTATION SUCCESS OF HEALTHCARE INFORMATION SYSTEMS: A BUSINESS-IT ALIGNMENT PERSPECTIVE

Alignment has been considered as a multi-dimension concept such as strategic alignment and social alignment. Besides, alignment is also recognized as a dynamic concept, which means it is always an ongoing process. Drawing on these two perspectives, we suggest that alignment could be achieved by various implementations, including IT strategy-driven implementation and business-driven implementation that could happen in the same organization, but in different periods of time. We also propose that social alignment is not simply one of the antecedents of strategic alignment, but is embedded in the whole process of implementation to help achieve strategic alignment. To integrate these two sets of findings, we further propose a process model about how the process of IT implementation and social alignment facilitate the alignment between organization’s business strategy and IT strategy to illustrate the underlying mechanism

Electrocatalytic activity of lithium polysulfides adsorbed into porous TiO2 coated MWCNTs hybrid structure for lithium-sulfur batteries

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