The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effect of outsourcing the activities of government agencies on organizational structure. The current study is a descriptive-survey research implemented by the field method. The statistical population of the study consisted of managers of governmental organizations of Isfahan province. The questionnaires were distributed based on simple rand...

This paper posits that the design and implementation formalization of Organizational Decision Support Systems (ODSSs) is more formalized than other types of decision support systems. By examining the process of information shanmg as a cultural phenomenon, the paper demonstrates that they type of decision support system is related to two dimensions of culture space-codification and diffusion. Si...

the purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between organizational culture and leadership styles. organizational culture is important factor that can be influence organizational performance and also leadership is one of the key parts that can be affected organizational success. however, recognition about the relationship between these two effective factors on organizational perfo...

This chapter focuses on the tensions from two opposite forces: the need for formalization (static knowledge) on the one hand and the tacit understanding that implies creativity and innovation (dynamic knowledge) on the other. In order to explore these concepts, the means of overcoming this confrontation are analyzed – in other words the “knowledge vision” of management, the knowledge culture(s)...

the purpose of this research was to study organizational climate and faculty members' participation in decision making in physical education faculty of tehran university. for this purpose, 30 faculty members of physical education faculty were selected with census method as the statistical sample. data were collected by two questionnaires: organizational climate (?=0.92) and participation i...

abstract background: today, given the changes made in the organizations and their environment, the importance of human resources has increased. one of the issues raised in this regard is the organizational silence. the main purpose of this research is to study the manner of impact of self-concept, organizational identity and organizational values on organizational silence of employees of hazrat...

The profitability of a firm is jointly determined by the market structure and the firm’s organizational structure. To explore the relationship between these two structures, a real-time information processing model in a dynamic duopoly environment is developed, which allows us to examine the effects of the product market competition and the cost of delay. It is found that Decentralization tends ...

Although managing information technology (IT) risks is widely regarded as a critical in organizations, stakeholders often question the value provided by IT risk management (ITRM) to an organization. Organizational research suggests the concept of ‘enabling formalization’ to design highly formalized organizational processes. Processes like IT-RM that are designed in an enabling way support organ...