In order to survive and develop effectively in an increasingly dynamic and uncertain environment, an organization should have the capacity for continuous and adaptive changes. Change can only occur through the collaboration of participants of this process. Collaboration should be adaptive. Adaptability of collaboration is expressed by its adjustment to dynamic organizational changes. Adaptive c...

introduction: there are various factors that affect manpower efficiency. identification of the most important and influential factors on efficiency is quite essential. analysis of factors affecting manpower efficiency from the viewpoint of clinical and non-clinical faculty members at guilan university of medical sciences in 2011. methods: this descriptive, analytical, cross-sectional study was ...

secure electronic transaction (set) protocol is an open protocol, which has the potential to emerge as a powerful tool in securing of electronic transactions. the quality of a design of an ecommerce protocols has a great influence on achieving non-functional requirements (nfrs) to the system. an increasingly important non-functional attribute of complex software systems is adaptability. softwar...

We propose a novel approach to theorizing hybridity in public and nonprofit organizations. The concept of hybridity is widely used to describe organizational responses to changes in governance, but the literature seldom explains how hybrids arise or what forms they take. Transaction cost and organizational design literatures offer some solutions, but lack a theory of agency. We use the institut...

The general goal of this research is to study the relationships between individual and social cognition (e.g., organizational culture development), an approach to the micro-macro link in social and cognitive sciences [Sawyer, 2003] [Schillo, 2000]. More specifically, this work aims to represent, in a multiagent system, how does organizational knowledge changes according to individual’s characte...

It is argued that diverse complex adaptive systems, such as proteins, cells, organisms, organizations, societies and ecosystems, all together constitute one developing, multiscale continuum-economy composed of interacting and interdependent adaptive organizational forms that co-exist and co-evolve at different spatiotemporal scales, forming a nested set of interdependent organizational hierarch...