the aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between information technology (it) and organizational structure in ministry of sport and youth of i.r. iran. this research used a descriptive – correlation research conducted as field. the statistical population consisted of 42 managers of ministry of sport and youth who equaled the sample. data were gathered using the questionnaire ...

We analyze firms’ decisions on their vertical organization, taking into account the characteristics of both final good competition and R&D process. consider two chains where upstream sectors invest in R&D. Such investment determines production costs downstream sector has spillovers rival. In a general setting, we show that equilibrium organizational structure depends whether situation considere...

Organizational structure determines the scope of decisions, tasks, responsibilities, goals, perspectives and rewards for achieving results. In recent decades, due to environmental changes and dramatic technological advances, organizational structure has changed from Mechanistic to organic. The purpose of the restructuring is to facilitate the achievement of the organization's goals. Changing st...

Over the last decades, scholars have paid consistent attention to the concepts of flexible work. This reflects the growing relevance of flexible work patterns in practice. The general assumption is that flexible work arrangements enable an organization to adapt its workforce to changes in the working environment, which is mainly based on Atkinson’s (1984) groundbreaking ‘flexible firm’ model. I...

In the era of New Economy, knowledge creation has been regarded as the main source of organization’s competitive advantage. Based on the assumption that knowledge is originally generated and constructed from organizational members, this paper aims to explore how knowledge is constructed and created in organizations with the existence of organizational structure and social structure. On the “har...

today, many organizations plan to implement and exploit erp system due to its numerous benefits. despite these advantages, many adopting organizations have failed to achieve their intended goals through utilizing erp system. among other factors, organizational characteristics have been proposed as one of the effective factors which can influence erp success in both implementation and post-imple...

Terror cells and military units represent entities in different networked organizations facing a common goal: the organizational structure has to be chosen such that it allows for flexible information exchange while simultaneously providing the necessary secrecy. These kind of organizations have been studied extensively from a qualitative perspective. However, quantitative approaches are less f...