The existing Workflow Management Systems, WfMS (ACTIONTm, Xsoft InConcert, Team Ware) show some insufficient due essentially to two factors. First, the enterprises express a real need of WfMS that deal with flexible business processes. These later must adapt to the optimization of enterprises work methods and the evolution of their needs. Second, the enterprises also need of control mechanisms ...

using structural equation modeling, the current study aims to examine the relationship between organizational structure, competitive strategies and organizational performance with respect to the interaction between structure and competitive strategy in the engineering consulting firms. this orientation is determined with respect to the desired approach (contingency or resource based view). the ...

in this paper a new strategy is proposed to design a fixed-structure robust controller for a flexible beam.  robust controller designed by the conventional  loop­ shaping method is not appropriate for a beam because of its high order and complicated form. fixed-structure  loop shaping control in conjunction with particle swarm optimization (pso)algorithm  is used to overcome this drawback. the ...

This paper revisits the Crawford-Sobel game by allowing the sender to choose her information structure endogenously before communicating with the receiver. Information acquisition here is costly, flexible and unobservable. First, I show under a general setup that the sender necessarily communicates all her information to the receiver in any equilibrium; and the sender’s incentive constraint at ...

Abstract We explore the effects of chief executive officers’ (CEOs’) personal dominance—an idiosyncratic character trait strongly associated with a desire for influence and control—on two fundamental organizational design decisions: CEO’s span control (1) her delegation responsibilities as reflected in appointment operating officer (COO) (2). Linking three original measures CEO dominance based ...

entrepreneurial university, as the third-generation of universities, undertakes the mission of economic and social development in countries. since entrepreneurial university is considered as a change factor in societies, the investigation of its mission and creation has gained increasing attention in recent studies. this study identifies the principles of entrepreneurial university through revi...