Background: Outsourcing is considered as one of the tools for organizational development and promotion of productivity by managers. In recent years, outsourcing of healthcare services has become significant. The aim of this study was to identify the most important factors influencing the decision making of outsourcing healthcare services.    Methods: This study is a combined study. F...

In this study, we investigated the adoption decisions of two clinical units of a Hong Kong based teaching and public hospital in choosing and the subsequent diffusion of telemedicine technology. The findings suggest that when making adoption decisions, an organization needs to consider not only the innovation attributes but also the organizational characteristics including needs, structure, mem...

one of the major challenges towards the programs of organizational improvement and change is resistance to change due to suspicion. for this reason, it is required that organizations identify the triggers of suspicion, trying to control and eliminate the resultant factors. this study was performed among hospital staffs including, sina, shariati and imam khomeini and the sample size was 260. bas...

Although there has been increasing interest in the role of affect in work settings, the impact of moods and emotions in strategic decision making remains largely unexplored. In this essay, we address this shortcoming by proposing a conceptual model of strategic decision making that incorporates, at its core, the impact of affective states on cognitive processes that are integral to the decision...

introduction: one of the types of hospital management information systems is decision support information system (dsis). this system uses decision-making models and databases for preparing specific information to support their semi-structured or unstructured decisions. the present study aimed to design a decision dsis model for board of trustees of ayatollah kashani hospital, shahrekord, iran. ...

A. Objectives In this paper, we extend our three-phase organizational design process ([2], [3]), which hypothesizes that congruence between missions and organizations leads to superior organizational performance, to include mission monitoring and dynamic re-planning in order to maintain a desired level of congruence. The dynamic mission monitoring facilitates situation awareness at the team lev...

This paper investigates decision making in self-organizing technology-mediated distributed teams. This context provides an opportunity to examine how the use of technological support to span temporal and organizational discontinuities affects decision-making processes. 258 softwaremodification decision episodes were collected from the public emailing lists of six Free/Libre Open Source Software...

This paper presents a software environment that uses our comprehensive modeling and design methodology for representing complex missions and synthesizing the concomitant adaptive organizational structures for different sets of design objectives. The tool box provides a step-bystep visualization of modeling a complex mission and building an "optimal" organization that achieves superior performan...

a r t i c l e i n f o Providing data-centric decision support for organizational decision processes is a crucial but challenging task. Business intelligence and analytics (BI&A) equips analytics experts with the technological capabilities to support decision processes with reliable information and analytic insights, thus potentially raising the quality of managerial decision making. However, th...