Three ideas—a complex division of labor, an organic structure, and a highrisk strategy—provoke consistent findings relative to organizational innovation. Of these three ideas, the complexity of the division of labor is most important because it taps the organizational learning, problem-solving, and creativity capacities of the organization. The importance of a complex division of labor has been...

Approach This paper explores a new idea presenting the possible relationship between organizational learning and organizational design. The establishment of this relation is based upon extensive literature review. Findings Organizational learning theory has been used to understand several organizational phenomena, like resources and competencies, tacit knowledge or the role of memory in the org...

Background & objectives: The Integrated Health System (SIB) is the latest electronic health record system in Iran, officially began in Iran in March 2016, with the goal of integrating health information and providing health services. This study aimed to design a model for establishment of the electronic health record in family physician program of Guilan university of medical sciences. Method:...

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This paper introduces a new dimension to the alignment between business and information technology. Besides alignment of strategies, objectives, and processes, the paper argues that modelling languages for the description of organizational domains during requirements engineering must be aligned with the organizational paradigm. This paper examines five organizational paradigms and their ontolog...

This study was designed to compare organizational commitment of the employees in public and private sector organizations food processing industry, make out association between subscales commitment, these dimensions vis-a-vis different psycho-demographic factors investigate relationship effectiveness. The scope belonging Punjab Haryana industry. sample comprised 196 respondents drawn from three ...

This ethnographic study examines the organizational tensions of a community-based ecotourism in Cambodia by employing the theoretical framework of the hybrid structure of social enterprises. It elucidates the tensions between business and the local culture, between business and the natural environment, and between business and inclusive governance. It suggests that there need to be constant eff...

We examine the joint processes of organizational development and population selection to highlight a dynamic interaction overlooked when considering the processes in isolation. Selection does not operate on quasi-stable traits directly, but rather on contemporaneous performance. Consequently, stable search strategies may be favored by selection on bases other than long-run performance, such as ...