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Methods of expert assessment are considered. Key problems of expert evaluating are listed. Model of automatic expert system is introduced. Method of aggregation of heterogeneous expert assessment is proposed.
Program management is suited to reduce ambiguity, which is when large numbers of possible solutions and stakeholders present no clear path to defined business goals. The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of program goal ambiguity on inter-team integrative conflict management during IT program implementation. Specifically, we probe the moderating role of goal ambiguity on the relationships...
Evidence from the literature suggests that achieving sustainable IT adoption benefits in organizations remains a problem. The assumption of most IT adoption frameworks is that there is always consensus during IT adoption decision making in organizations. However, the different stakeholder worldviews make IT adoption decision making in organizations a challenge. This paper developed and validated an...
The Last Planner System is a very important and systematic method that influences the achievement of lean construction. With the theory of emergence science, this paper analyzed the emergence mechanism of the last planner system from the perspective of group decision-making, information change and self-organization; then, how to realize the potencies of the last planner system so as to attain much...
Staffs' communication satisfaction has been deeply recognized, leadership behavior impacts organizational internal staffs' communication satisfaction. This study discusses how the empowering leadership behavior impacts the communication satisfaction and its mechanism of action. Four manufacturing enterprises in Heilongjiang province were selected to fill in questionnaires. After that, we used multivariate...
The practice of information technology (IT) governance entails activities that ensures stakeholder needs are evaluated to determine balanced, agreed upon enterprise objectives to be achieved; setting direction through IT-related prioritisation and decision making, and monitoring performance and compliance against agreed upon direction and objectives. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the...
In our modern societies, technological systems are taking on a large part in numerous domains such as automatic control, calculation, communication, information technologies, etc. They are put in place in more and more fields e.g. production, defense, national security, space, etc. These very important developments are offering new possibilities such as distributed cooperative and concurrent decision...
This paper analyses the effects of firm-level aspects of alliance collaborations on decision-making on commercializing technology. These effects have become more important for entrepreneurs in their efforts to compete in technology-based markets. The conceptual ideas were developed through business's preferences of adoptions in cooperation with alliances. It tests these empirically with a pilot questionnaire...
The aim of this study was to develop and validate a construct that can measure different management communication styles (MCS) in the Malaysian context. Through an extensive literature review, four dimensions of management communication styles are identified. These dimensions form the component factors of management communication styles. Three sequential stages of scale development namely: (item generation,...
This study develops a questionnaire to measure nurses' perceptions of information quality for clinical decision making in hospital settings. The instrument is developed through a pretest, pilot test, and full survey process. A total of 214 questionnaires were received from chief nursing officers in the full survey process. Principal component analysis and Cronbach's alpha are used to confirm the validity...
Land reserving enables the government to control land market easily and reduces the rent-seeking behaviors in the process of assigning the right to the use of the land. The land reserving could move the stock of urban land and improve the land utilization. However, the land revserving projects also belong to investment activities and the amount of investment is huge. In the same time the investment...
As an important indicator measuring enterprise management level, psychological ecology level of enterprise organization is an important basis for behavior prediction and management decision. Enterprise organization is made up of individual. The combination of individual psychological state decides the psychological ecology of enterprise organization. The work experience of individuals is mainly exhibited...
In this paper we introduce the first model to determine how best to make connections amongst a multi-layer network so to ensure a specified level of reliability amongst the components (actors) in the various levels of the system. This work is broadly applicable to any relationship in manufacturing, business organization or social networks in which the communication structure between independent subsystems...
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) is an enterprise wide integrated approach to managing an organization's unstructured information such as documents, email, web pages, portals and other digital assets. ECM systems potentially leverage a knowledge repository to prevent information overload, as well as enable (1) better decision-making and increased efficiencies from enriched information sharing and...
Today, IT governance is common because the managers of organizations adopt structures and IT governance frameworks such as COBIT to guide and maintain their organizations business goals. Nevertheless, adopting a governance structure does not mean that the organization has effectively implemented a governance structure aligned with IT, keeping and improving the business. This article, deals with the...
The effective assessment of organizational reliability, maintainability and supportability (RMS) engineering capability has an important significance to improving organizational RMS work level. For the problem of organizational RMS engineering capability assessment being complex, and many indexes being fuzzy and difficult to be defined the value and weight, a method based on fuzzy analytic hierarchy...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the problems of accounting information integration in integrated systems. Using data from a survey of 142 software users from UFIDA, Kingdee, Langchao Ltd. in China, this study tests a structural equation model that relates accounting business processes coordination and accounting information integration, which in turn are hypothesized to affect AIS performance...
This research is study about the Southeast Asia Taiwanese executive using decision making (DM) type and knowledge management (KM) preference situation. The results show that the rational and spontaneous DM executive makes use of KM. However, the rational DM executive preference the KM which is tacit knowledge including socialization and internalization process. Moreover, spontaneous DM executive preferences...
Empowerment is an effective management tool and has made tremendous benefits for employees and organizations, which has been approved by many studies and practices. However in China, it is so common that managers don't want to empower. So the main aim of this research is to analyze that phenomenon from the perspective of empowerment risk perception. From the data of 209 managers and 618 subordinates...
Emergencies today seem larger, more complex, and unique than those of the past. Responding to them requires flexibility and creativity not easily achieved. The threat-rigidity thesis proposed by Staw, Sandelands, and Dutton proposes that response to an environmental threat is often one of constriction of control and restriction of information that results in a rigidity of response that can be maladaptive...
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