Purpose – To analyze a series of strategic capabilities/factors that affects organizational innovation (OI) and organizational learning (OL) (personal mastery, transformational leadership, shared vision, proactivity and environment) and demonstrate that OL and innovation are positively related to organizational performance. Design/methodology/approach – Based on prior research, the paper develo...

A set of N data elements (xI +•.• + X~)/N and variance of the th The r moment of the data elements elements is used to estimate E(xr ). th r x1' •.•• xN has r moment E(x)= th r 2r 2 r r moment Var(x ) = E(x )-E (x ). in an arbitrary subset of k Over all the choices of the sample, the mean error is zero and the mean squared error N-k r k(N-I) Var(x). A little-known theorem by Marlow shows that t...

There are many situations in which social interactions and emerging social phenomena play important and, sometimes, fundamental roles. In our particular case we are studying networks of small to medium enterprises. In these enterprise networks each individual enterprise keeps its own identity but works in close collaboration with the others in order to produce something that the enterprises wor...

BACKGROUND The value placed on types of evidence within decision-making contexts is highly dependent on individuals, the organizations in which the work and the systems and sectors they operate in. Decision-making processes too are highly contextual. Understanding the values placed on evidence and processes guiding decision-making is crucial to designing strategies to support evidence-informed ...

this study has examined the organizational antecedents and consequences of hypocritical behaviors in interpersonal communication in najafabad public organizations. to this end, proportional questionnaires were distributed among 280 employees of organizations as a sample. to test the hypothesis, the data were fitted to structural equation models based on chi-square, normed chi-square, incrementa...