This study focuses on documenting the barriers of knowledge integration between the organizational culture and the bestpractices supported by an ERP system using an Action Research approach. The findings contribute to the ERP literature because they provide managers with different knowledge integration barriers that appear during ERP implementation, and how authors, using an AR methodology, sur...

The goal of the PRIN2005 “EAH conservation KM system” research project, funded by Italian Ministry of Research, is to establish an advanced integrated approach to conservation of Earthen Architecture Heritage (EAH) that support main design and planning of conservation actions, reducing the technical risk through suitable and compatible measures. Knowledge Management for supporting EAH conservat...

this study considers political culture (which is one of the most important issues in social and political sciences of students) in tehran university and effective factors on it. to analyze political culture, we used some theories of amond, verba, pay, rash, leibet and dal. in this study, the research method is the technique of collecting data and information through standard questionnaire. and ...

background: every year many organizations formulate a code of ethics (coe) but when it comes to implementing, it does not achieve the desired purposes. ineffectiveness of coes can stem from different factors and surely, one of them is bad formulation. this research was conducted to identify the barriers to effective formulation of coes in one of the main state universities of medical sciences i...

Motivated by pressure and a wish to improve, health care organizations are implementing programs to improve patient safety. This article describes six natural experiments in health care safety that show where the safety field is heading and opportunities for and barriers to improvement. All these programs identified organizational culture change as critical to making patients safer, differing c...

BACKGROUND Induced abortion is the most common gynaecological procedure in Scotland. Despite several recent initiatives to improve the quality of abortion care, inappropriate variations in care remain. OBJECTIVE To identify and explore factors that enable or constrain the provision of high-quality induced abortion care in Scotland. METHODS Interviews with a range of key informants with diff...

Facing pressure from an increasingly competitive business environment, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are called upon to implement e-Learning strategies to support their organizational training and developmental efforts. The purpose of this study is to identify the barriers and constraints SMEs experience when they want to use e-Learning and to determine, through a multiple case stud...