This research study reviews the literature on the participants in the sharing economy (SE) ecosys... more This research study reviews the literature on the participants in the sharing economy (SE) ecosystem and its impact on the participants, creating and capturing value through increasing the understanding of the ecosystem’s novel models. The review classifies the participants in the SE ecosystem into primary and secondary participants. The classification is based on the connection to the core network/ecosystem and the role of the participants in the ecosystem. The primary participants are subdivided into groups: customers are subdivided into New Customers (NC) and Current Customers (CC); providers into Product Providers (PP) and Service Providers (SP); and mediators are subdivided into Small and Medium Mediators (SMM) and Large Mediators (LM). The secondary participants are governments sub-grouped into Local Governments (NG) and National Governments (NG); Theories and methodologies within the academic literature on the sharing economy ecosystem are also examined. The study also analys...
This research adopts the Socio-Technical Theory and Contingency theory to develop and test a new ... more This research adopts the Socio-Technical Theory and Contingency theory to develop and test a new framework for the possibility of improving organization innovativeness. The framework consists of three main drivers: ERP Innovation attitude, organization flexibility, and ERP skills. This research surveyed 210 ERP managers in different countries. After analysing the data using Structure Equation Modelling, that organization flexibility and the employees’ user skills enhance employees’ attitude towards ERP as an innovation enabler (ERP attitude) attaining ERP Innovating Benefits. Consequently, the study found that there is an indirect impact of ERP skills and Organisational flexibility on ERP Innovations meditated by the attitude. The main implication of this research is that ERP can be a source of innovation employees’ believe in that. They will believe in that if the organisation is flexible and they have the required skills and knowledge for using it effectively
This research aims to investigate the current status of EMR implementation in the Eastern provena... more This research aims to investigate the current status of EMR implementation in the Eastern provenance of Saudi Arabia to identify the level of implementation, main challenges and to identify the main opportunities to exploit the power of EMR in this region. It is based on surveying 23 hospitals and a focus group from different hospitals. None of the hospitals in this area has fully implemented the EMR. Although there is a positive attitude towards EMR, the main critical reasons for why hospitals having different implementation levels are the believe that EMR enhances the quality of services provided and the level of top management support to implement EMR. The main challenges are the level of fund to support EMR in post-implementation phase; users (doctors, nurses and administrative staff) need continuous training on the system; and devoting and dedicating benefits management team to assure the benefits are identified, planned, owned, realised and reviewed so that the top management ...
PurposeThe growing interest in the development of entrepreneurial intention (EI) that has increas... more PurposeThe growing interest in the development of entrepreneurial intention (EI) that has increased the importance of theories that explain and anticipate the tendency among individuals to start a new business. However, most of these theories focus on the relationship between entrepreneurs perceptions and their intention and ignore the cognitive and psychological characteristics that might configure their perceptions. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to integrate the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) with the entrepreneurial event model (EEM) and to extend the combined model to include the personality characteristics of an entrepreneur that might shape the perceptions and intentions.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a sample of 688 senior university students (Emirati nationals, 91.2 per cent and expatriates, 8.8 per cent) and employs positivist research with a quantitative approach, adopting a survey strategy through questionnaires and structural equation modelling.F...
The purpose of this research is to develop Benefits, Costs, and Financial Risks (CoBeFR) model to... more The purpose of this research is to develop Benefits, Costs, and Financial Risks (CoBeFR) model to show and measure the impact of ERP related decisions, such as degree of business process reengineering and the level of hardware investment, on the organisational financial value (OFV). OFV is based on current time value of money (i.e. interest rate), financial risk, and net cash flows emerged from ERP system. Financial risk, the sensitivity of the organisation net profit to changes in market conditions, is affected by organisational adoption of ERP system. The main conclusion is that there are interrelated impacts of ERP implementation decisions to the organisational financial value. Therefore, decision maker should look at the implementation decision from a new perspective which is Organisational Financial Value (OFV) perspective
The success of ERP has been discussed extensively throughout the last decade. However, this resea... more The success of ERP has been discussed extensively throughout the last decade. However, this research offers a new lens for understanding this success through combining project management theory with institutional theory. Based on neo-institutional theory, it is proposed that the more the Project Management (PM) and Benefits Management (BM) are used as practice and governance frameworks in an organization, the more it is able to use them in ERP projects since they become part of its institutional logic in managing its projects. Therefore, ERP investment success is hypothesized to be associated with the organization's project and benefits management institutional logics. After analyzing 130 questionnaires using Structural Equation Modeling, it is found that these hypotheses are supported. Furthermore, the organizations that have both logics outperform others which have not. This research implies that project management is not responsible for the project investment success. This is the responsibility of business change management.
Benefits management (BM) and project management (PM) are two interrelated approaches to the succe... more Benefits management (BM) and project management (PM) are two interrelated approaches to the success of projects. The literature, however, still lacks empirical evidence of the value of applying BM practices. Hence, it is aimed to test the impact of BM practices on the success of investments in projects, taking into consideration the impact of PM practices on that success. Since the results, based on 200 valid responses, suggest that a significant proportion of organisations adopt PM and BM concurrently, SEM was used. PM practices were not only found to influence project management success but also to affect project investment success. However, BM is found to be less significant and to have less impact on project investment success. Nevertheless, the probability of project success is enhanced significantly when PM and BM practices are combined together. Therefore, a governance based framework is developed to uncover the interweaving relationship between the two practices.
Contemporary Issues and Strategies for Developing Economies, 2015
In capability development projects, project management practices are believed to have an impact o... more In capability development projects, project management practices are believed to have an impact on time and cost of delivering outputs. Likewise, program management and benefits management practices are believed to have impacts on the benefits realization and the organization satisfaction. This research uses interpretive research, using a focus group with seven experts from developed countries and eight face-to-face interviews with experts from developing countries, to understand the benefits management practices that are valid and those that are not (and why). Positive research, using two sequential surveys with 50 and 28 responses, respectively, is used to test the propositions of (1) whether benefits management has an impact on business benefits, (2) whether project management is not important for benefits management, and (3) whether program management is the best governance way to manage benefits. This research found that there is no significant relationship between using benefits management practices and benefits realization and organization satisfaction. Only project management practices are found to have significant evidence on delivering capability on time and on cost, realizing business benefits and organization satisfaction from this capability. The results of the questionnaire are interpreted and explained using the qualitative analysis of the interviews and online focus group.
In information systems (IS) projects, project management practices are argued to have an impact o... more In information systems (IS) projects, project management practices are argued to have an impact on delivering IS projects on schedule and on budget. Likewise, program management and benefits management practices are claimed to have impacts on the benefits realization and the organization satisfaction. This research utilizes interpretive research, using interviews and online focus group, in identifying which benefits management practices are valid and which are not (and why) in the UK, Denmark, Australia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. Positive research, using two questionnaires with 52 and 28 responses, is used to examine the propositions of whether benefits management and project management practices have an influence on business benefits, whether project management practices are not critical for benefits management, and whether program management is the proper governance way to realize IS business success. This research found that there is a weak relationship between using benef...
e-Science infrastructures have changed the process of research. Researchers can now access distri... more e-Science infrastructures have changed the process of research. Researchers can now access distributed data around the globe with the help of e-infrastructures. This is particularly a very important development for the developing countries. User support services play an important role to provide researchers with the required information needs to accomplish their research goals with the help of e-infrastructures. However, the current user-support practices in e-infrastructures in the climate domain are being followed on intuitive basis, hence over-burdening infrastructure development staffs who partly act as human support agents. The main contribution of this paper is to present the environmental complexity within the contemporary user support practices of climate science e-infrastructure known as Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF). ESGF is a leading distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) data-grid system in Earth System Modelling (ESM) having around 25000 users distributed all over the world.
PurposeThis research aims to understand the determinants of consumers' behaviour and motivati... more PurposeThis research aims to understand the determinants of consumers' behaviour and motivations to buy taboo items online. Two theoretical lenses, theories of psychological reactance and system justification, are invoked to frame the role of online shopping in shaping consumer behaviour in taboo markets.Design/methodology/approachA naturalistic inquiry paradigm was used to test a sample of 34 Saudi women who were buying taboo products online.FindingsThe determinant of such behaviour is based on differences in understanding the ritual restrictions between people, their society and their country. The four principal attitudes towards restrictions are justifying, accepting, rejecting and reacting. These attitudes frame five motivations: satisfying the restriction, to be unique, but aligned with social norms; breaking social norms; aligning one's self-image to liberal societies; and joy in challenging legal restrictions. The motives for online shopping are justification/utilitar...
Achieving success for ERP systems is not only concerned with deploying the technology on time and... more Achieving success for ERP systems is not only concerned with deploying the technology on time and on budget but also concerned with the level of achieving targeted benefits from the system. This level of achieving targeted benefits can be managed indirectly through managing the organisational attitude toward the new system. Thus, the aim of this paper is to use the System Dynamics (SD) to reveal how managing organisational attitude leads to an increase in the level of system use and, therefore, leads to a decrease in the level of resistance to change to new system for achieving high level of performance. SD is used to investigate the causal loops of organisational attitude, perceptions, behaviours, and policies taken to achieve desired benefits. The ability to manage an organisational attitude toward ERP is an important factor for achieving desired levels of benefits is the main conclusion of this research.
Affirmative action policies are believed to have both positive and negative impacts on business. ... more Affirmative action policies are believed to have both positive and negative impacts on business. This paper takes a novel perspective to understand the negative impact of this policy on the organizational commitment and therefore the intention to leave (IL) on the part of native employees when they perceive unfair discrimination against expatriate employees. Based on analysis conducted by Structure Equation Modelling of answers from a sample of 440 employees in Saudi Arabia, the perception of affirmative action in an organization is found to affect the perception of discrimination (national, gender and religious) in it. The perception among nationals of discrimination is found to fully mediate the relationship between the perception of an organization’s affirmative action policy and organizational commitment (OC). Indeed, this OC fully mediates the perception of national discrimination and the intention to leave. Furthermore, the perception of negative discrimination based on gender...
This is a funded research to develop a unified definition of benefits management. It is funded by... more This is a funded research to develop a unified definition of benefits management. It is funded by PMI.
This research study reviews the literature on the participants in the sharing economy (SE) ecosys... more This research study reviews the literature on the participants in the sharing economy (SE) ecosystem and its impact on the participants, creating and capturing value through increasing the understanding of the ecosystem’s novel models. The review classifies the participants in the SE ecosystem into primary and secondary participants. The classification is based on the connection to the core network/ecosystem and the role of the participants in the ecosystem. The primary participants are subdivided into groups: customers are subdivided into New Customers (NC) and Current Customers (CC); providers into Product Providers (PP) and Service Providers (SP); and mediators are subdivided into Small and Medium Mediators (SMM) and Large Mediators (LM). The secondary participants are governments sub-grouped into Local Governments (NG) and National Governments (NG); Theories and methodologies within the academic literature on the sharing economy ecosystem are also examined. The study also analys...
This research adopts the Socio-Technical Theory and Contingency theory to develop and test a new ... more This research adopts the Socio-Technical Theory and Contingency theory to develop and test a new framework for the possibility of improving organization innovativeness. The framework consists of three main drivers: ERP Innovation attitude, organization flexibility, and ERP skills. This research surveyed 210 ERP managers in different countries. After analysing the data using Structure Equation Modelling, that organization flexibility and the employees’ user skills enhance employees’ attitude towards ERP as an innovation enabler (ERP attitude) attaining ERP Innovating Benefits. Consequently, the study found that there is an indirect impact of ERP skills and Organisational flexibility on ERP Innovations meditated by the attitude. The main implication of this research is that ERP can be a source of innovation employees’ believe in that. They will believe in that if the organisation is flexible and they have the required skills and knowledge for using it effectively
This research aims to investigate the current status of EMR implementation in the Eastern provena... more This research aims to investigate the current status of EMR implementation in the Eastern provenance of Saudi Arabia to identify the level of implementation, main challenges and to identify the main opportunities to exploit the power of EMR in this region. It is based on surveying 23 hospitals and a focus group from different hospitals. None of the hospitals in this area has fully implemented the EMR. Although there is a positive attitude towards EMR, the main critical reasons for why hospitals having different implementation levels are the believe that EMR enhances the quality of services provided and the level of top management support to implement EMR. The main challenges are the level of fund to support EMR in post-implementation phase; users (doctors, nurses and administrative staff) need continuous training on the system; and devoting and dedicating benefits management team to assure the benefits are identified, planned, owned, realised and reviewed so that the top management ...
PurposeThe growing interest in the development of entrepreneurial intention (EI) that has increas... more PurposeThe growing interest in the development of entrepreneurial intention (EI) that has increased the importance of theories that explain and anticipate the tendency among individuals to start a new business. However, most of these theories focus on the relationship between entrepreneurs perceptions and their intention and ignore the cognitive and psychological characteristics that might configure their perceptions. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to integrate the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) with the entrepreneurial event model (EEM) and to extend the combined model to include the personality characteristics of an entrepreneur that might shape the perceptions and intentions.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses a sample of 688 senior university students (Emirati nationals, 91.2 per cent and expatriates, 8.8 per cent) and employs positivist research with a quantitative approach, adopting a survey strategy through questionnaires and structural equation modelling.F...
The purpose of this research is to develop Benefits, Costs, and Financial Risks (CoBeFR) model to... more The purpose of this research is to develop Benefits, Costs, and Financial Risks (CoBeFR) model to show and measure the impact of ERP related decisions, such as degree of business process reengineering and the level of hardware investment, on the organisational financial value (OFV). OFV is based on current time value of money (i.e. interest rate), financial risk, and net cash flows emerged from ERP system. Financial risk, the sensitivity of the organisation net profit to changes in market conditions, is affected by organisational adoption of ERP system. The main conclusion is that there are interrelated impacts of ERP implementation decisions to the organisational financial value. Therefore, decision maker should look at the implementation decision from a new perspective which is Organisational Financial Value (OFV) perspective
The success of ERP has been discussed extensively throughout the last decade. However, this resea... more The success of ERP has been discussed extensively throughout the last decade. However, this research offers a new lens for understanding this success through combining project management theory with institutional theory. Based on neo-institutional theory, it is proposed that the more the Project Management (PM) and Benefits Management (BM) are used as practice and governance frameworks in an organization, the more it is able to use them in ERP projects since they become part of its institutional logic in managing its projects. Therefore, ERP investment success is hypothesized to be associated with the organization's project and benefits management institutional logics. After analyzing 130 questionnaires using Structural Equation Modeling, it is found that these hypotheses are supported. Furthermore, the organizations that have both logics outperform others which have not. This research implies that project management is not responsible for the project investment success. This is the responsibility of business change management.
Benefits management (BM) and project management (PM) are two interrelated approaches to the succe... more Benefits management (BM) and project management (PM) are two interrelated approaches to the success of projects. The literature, however, still lacks empirical evidence of the value of applying BM practices. Hence, it is aimed to test the impact of BM practices on the success of investments in projects, taking into consideration the impact of PM practices on that success. Since the results, based on 200 valid responses, suggest that a significant proportion of organisations adopt PM and BM concurrently, SEM was used. PM practices were not only found to influence project management success but also to affect project investment success. However, BM is found to be less significant and to have less impact on project investment success. Nevertheless, the probability of project success is enhanced significantly when PM and BM practices are combined together. Therefore, a governance based framework is developed to uncover the interweaving relationship between the two practices.
Contemporary Issues and Strategies for Developing Economies, 2015
In capability development projects, project management practices are believed to have an impact o... more In capability development projects, project management practices are believed to have an impact on time and cost of delivering outputs. Likewise, program management and benefits management practices are believed to have impacts on the benefits realization and the organization satisfaction. This research uses interpretive research, using a focus group with seven experts from developed countries and eight face-to-face interviews with experts from developing countries, to understand the benefits management practices that are valid and those that are not (and why). Positive research, using two sequential surveys with 50 and 28 responses, respectively, is used to test the propositions of (1) whether benefits management has an impact on business benefits, (2) whether project management is not important for benefits management, and (3) whether program management is the best governance way to manage benefits. This research found that there is no significant relationship between using benefits management practices and benefits realization and organization satisfaction. Only project management practices are found to have significant evidence on delivering capability on time and on cost, realizing business benefits and organization satisfaction from this capability. The results of the questionnaire are interpreted and explained using the qualitative analysis of the interviews and online focus group.
In information systems (IS) projects, project management practices are argued to have an impact o... more In information systems (IS) projects, project management practices are argued to have an impact on delivering IS projects on schedule and on budget. Likewise, program management and benefits management practices are claimed to have impacts on the benefits realization and the organization satisfaction. This research utilizes interpretive research, using interviews and online focus group, in identifying which benefits management practices are valid and which are not (and why) in the UK, Denmark, Australia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait. Positive research, using two questionnaires with 52 and 28 responses, is used to examine the propositions of whether benefits management and project management practices have an influence on business benefits, whether project management practices are not critical for benefits management, and whether program management is the proper governance way to realize IS business success. This research found that there is a weak relationship between using benef...
e-Science infrastructures have changed the process of research. Researchers can now access distri... more e-Science infrastructures have changed the process of research. Researchers can now access distributed data around the globe with the help of e-infrastructures. This is particularly a very important development for the developing countries. User support services play an important role to provide researchers with the required information needs to accomplish their research goals with the help of e-infrastructures. However, the current user-support practices in e-infrastructures in the climate domain are being followed on intuitive basis, hence over-burdening infrastructure development staffs who partly act as human support agents. The main contribution of this paper is to present the environmental complexity within the contemporary user support practices of climate science e-infrastructure known as Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF). ESGF is a leading distributed peer-to-peer (P2P) data-grid system in Earth System Modelling (ESM) having around 25000 users distributed all over the world.
PurposeThis research aims to understand the determinants of consumers' behaviour and motivati... more PurposeThis research aims to understand the determinants of consumers' behaviour and motivations to buy taboo items online. Two theoretical lenses, theories of psychological reactance and system justification, are invoked to frame the role of online shopping in shaping consumer behaviour in taboo markets.Design/methodology/approachA naturalistic inquiry paradigm was used to test a sample of 34 Saudi women who were buying taboo products online.FindingsThe determinant of such behaviour is based on differences in understanding the ritual restrictions between people, their society and their country. The four principal attitudes towards restrictions are justifying, accepting, rejecting and reacting. These attitudes frame five motivations: satisfying the restriction, to be unique, but aligned with social norms; breaking social norms; aligning one's self-image to liberal societies; and joy in challenging legal restrictions. The motives for online shopping are justification/utilitar...
Achieving success for ERP systems is not only concerned with deploying the technology on time and... more Achieving success for ERP systems is not only concerned with deploying the technology on time and on budget but also concerned with the level of achieving targeted benefits from the system. This level of achieving targeted benefits can be managed indirectly through managing the organisational attitude toward the new system. Thus, the aim of this paper is to use the System Dynamics (SD) to reveal how managing organisational attitude leads to an increase in the level of system use and, therefore, leads to a decrease in the level of resistance to change to new system for achieving high level of performance. SD is used to investigate the causal loops of organisational attitude, perceptions, behaviours, and policies taken to achieve desired benefits. The ability to manage an organisational attitude toward ERP is an important factor for achieving desired levels of benefits is the main conclusion of this research.
Affirmative action policies are believed to have both positive and negative impacts on business. ... more Affirmative action policies are believed to have both positive and negative impacts on business. This paper takes a novel perspective to understand the negative impact of this policy on the organizational commitment and therefore the intention to leave (IL) on the part of native employees when they perceive unfair discrimination against expatriate employees. Based on analysis conducted by Structure Equation Modelling of answers from a sample of 440 employees in Saudi Arabia, the perception of affirmative action in an organization is found to affect the perception of discrimination (national, gender and religious) in it. The perception among nationals of discrimination is found to fully mediate the relationship between the perception of an organization’s affirmative action policy and organizational commitment (OC). Indeed, this OC fully mediates the perception of national discrimination and the intention to leave. Furthermore, the perception of negative discrimination based on gender...
This is a funded research to develop a unified definition of benefits management. It is funded by... more This is a funded research to develop a unified definition of benefits management. It is funded by PMI.
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