In this paper, multi-agent simulation is applied to explore how people organize themselves when they have to perform a task. The multi-agent model that we used is based on the formalization of psychological and organizational theories. Three experiments are presented in which multi-agent simulation is being used to study processes of self-organization. This article is structured as follows. Fir...

Bureaucratic restructuring must be able to produce a structure that is lean, flexible, responsive and efficient. However, this has not yet happened the Regional Office of Ministry Religion Province NTT, so an in-depth study needed regarding impact bureaucratic on organizational performance at NTT based changes in dimensions structure. The method used research qualitative method, type data quant...

this study aimed at investigating the trinary role of organizational commitment in the citizenship behavior of the employees of sport and youth general offices in iran. the statistical population consisted of 94 experts, deputies and managers of sport and youth general offices from 8 provinces who were selected as the sample by convenience sampling method. data were collected by field method. t...

The present study identified the structural requirements for auditing educational and research processes in universities. The problem posed in this research is the lack of specific and appropriate structural dimensions for educational and research auditing. The study is descriptive and used the exploratory method. Questionnaires were used to collect data. Data analysis revealed that formalizati...

one of the organizations’ concerns is their awareness about the degree of readiness for implementing social intranet. in response to this problem, a 48 item questionnaire was developed. fars regional electric company consisting of 820 human resources was selected as statistical population. by systematic random method, 262 personnel were determined as sample and the developed questionnaire were ...

This paper analyzes the internal characteristics of organizational structure which have an influence on the development of hybrid competitive strategies and their link to firm performance. The study examines a sample of large Spanish firms belonging to different sectors by means of the Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique, using formative dimensions for competitive strategy and organizational ...

background organizational entrepreneurship focuses on proactive actions, which may lead to the new productions, new services and/or new processes. implementation of organizational entrepreneurship plans has many benefits including organizational cost reduction and the increase of organizational capital assets. objectives this study aimed to investigate the organizational entrepreneurship status...

A framework is developed for viewing the centralization issues of organizations to consider to what degree a virtual organization may help a firm obtain competitive advantage. Utilizing the concepts of flexibility and synergy, the framework can serve as a guide for practitioners to help determine what degree of synergy and flexibility a given organizational form would bring and what its suggest...

This paper explores the formalization of social impact measurement (SIM) in contexts where there are little or no expectations for it. Drawing on a combination institutional and organizational-l...

The study examines the effects of environmental context (technological turbulence), industrial context (production technology routineness and product complexity), and organizational structure (formalization and decentralization) on customer involvement in product development and compares US and Chinese State-owned enterprise (SOE) manufacturers. The results show that customer involvement in pro...