More and more organizations cooperate in networks to perform increasingly complex tasks. Rather than managing their resources in isolation, organizations construct inter-organizational networks in which flows of information support joint value-creating processes. Organizations participating in such networks need to understand how closer cooperation with selected members of that network can be f...

We show that fluid organizations display higher levels of cooperation than attainable by groups with either a fixed social structure or lacking one altogether. By moving within the organization, individuals cause restructurings that facilitate cooperation. Computer experiments simulating fluid organizations faced with a social dilemma reveal a myriad of complex cooperative behaviors that result...

Complex collectives and phenomena – the mind, physiological subsystems, the biological body, social and cultural configurations, governance structures, evolved species, and the larger ecosphere, for instance – manifest themselves in many diverse forms across a wide range of possible dynamical patterns. Over the past two decades, these various and varying complex collectives increasingly have be...

Knowledge transfer was the most important factors of success for organizations in today's complex and changing environment as one of aspects of knowledge management. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation by transfer the employee’s knowledge in social security organizations in Kerman. The method research is descriptive and...

As Enterprise Systems (ES) have become almost ubiquitous in large organizations, multi-business organizations are increasingly moving towards developing shared IT infrastructures that support multiple business units. The operational and competitive gains are compelling enough for many organizations to invest in developing shared infrastructures. However, the managerial challenges involved in im...

INTRODUCTION Organizations can be regarded as systems. The traditional model of systems views them as machines. This seems to be insufficient when it comes to understanding and organizing complex tasks. To better understand integrated care we should approach organizations as constantly changing living organisms, where many agents are interconnected in so-called Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). ...

This collection seeks to reconnect two separate streams of work on professional organizations and professional occupations. In particular the articles collected here identify two key themes: (1) the challenges and opportunities that professional organizations pose for established and emerging professionalization projects and (2) the extent to which professional organizations create, institution...

The adoption of business process improvement strategies is currently a concern of most organizations. The quest for the benefits of this improvement on resource optimization and the responsiveness of the organizations has raised several proposals for process improvement methodologies. These approaches differ both in the principles that support them, and in the specific area to which they are in...

Performance management and measurement enable to improve strategy implementation increase organizational competitiveness. The literature review desk research confirm that the design of a performance system is an issue because redefinition project environment conditions complexity 4P. should be continuously developed during exploitation. Main objectives paper are propose framework set measures c...