Abstract One of the main discussions in higher education is whether universities have appropriately adapted their structures and processes response to New Public Management (NPM) reforms Bologna Process. There are no profound empirical investigations on extent which faculties take elements into account terms administrative organizational structure dimensions according bureaucracy approach. This...

Résumé This paper studies the implications of non-commitment for organizational design. An organizational form must trade-off between the coordination benefits associated with the centralization of information and its associated costs in terms of renegotiation. This analysis makes precise what these benefits and costs are. First, I characterize renegotiation-proof allocations for organizational...

The main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational trust and organizational justice components and their role on job involvement. The method of this research is descriptive and co-relational, and the statistical sample contains 350 employees and managers of education in Meybod and Ardakan (Yazd). Data collected by Moorman's (1999) organizational justice questio...

Based on an in-depth case study of Pilkington Plc, this study illustrates that received perspectives in organization theory and theory of the firm fall short of explaining organizational evolution. The framework of organizational evolution developed in this paper is combinatorial in two ways. First, it shows how factors drawn from different perspectives can be combined in understanding organiza...

This paper aims to examine conditions under which investment in enterprise resource planning (ERP) has a positive influence on business performance. Our empirical analysis on Korean firms that invested in ERP systems reveals how organizational integration modes need to be aligned with ERP systems for positive results from the ERP investment. Organizational integration modes refer to simultaneou...

This study's primary goal is to investigate all variables that are reported affect the organisational structure in same research model. For this purpose, effects of Top Management Team profile variables, including Strategic Decision-Making Style and Group Size, Environmental Dynamism, Hostility, Organization Size (both annual turnover number employees taken separately as indicators organisation...

The paper addresses the issue of optimal organization of production. I compare three organizational forms: centralization (one agent produces different inputs), decentralization (each of the two agents produces a different input and contracts directly with the principal), and delegation (two agents produce different inputs, the principal contracts with one of them only). The optimal organizatio...