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

This article reviews studies that examine the impact of information technology (IT) on the number of middle managers in organizations. We find contradictory evidence suggesting, paradoxically, that IT both increases and decreases the number of the middle managers. We resolve this "empirical paradox", by looking at the effects of IT on middle managers as contingent upon the degree of centralizat...

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and organizational silence organizational citizenship behavior. This research is applied in terms of the purpose and is a survey, based on data collection methods, using structural equation modeling. Statistical population included all the staff in Research Institute of Petroleum Industry. According to the Morgan's ...

knowledge sharing can be considered as an organizational behavior with a great importance which is affected by the other organizational behavior variables. this paper with a descriptive-survey approach, tries to investigate knowledge sharing behavior as a substantial aspect of knowledge management and to analyze its relationships with psychological empowerment and psychological capital as the m...

Knowledge transfer (KT) is an evolutionary process that requires embedding into and assistance from organizational culture. Since the determinants and influence path of KT regarding cultural change are not clear, this study designs a path model from organizational culture to KT through organizational characteristics. The findings demonstrate that the sociability factors of organizational cultur...

The implementation of BI into the business strategy and culture is laden with many potential points that could result in failure of the initiative, leaving BI to be underdeveloped and a source of wasted resources for the company. Due to the unique nature of BI in the business space, properly setting up BI within the organizational structure from the onset of integration minimizes the impact of ...

in the past years, a lot of studies have been conducted with regard to the organizational entrepreneurial orientation area. the overall results of these research projects helped organizational entrepreneurs discover the importance of some aspects, such as risk-taking, innovativeness and proactiveness. these aspects influence capabilities like learning and innovativeness and quality and, finally...