decentralisation has been described as an empty concept that lacks clarity. yet there is an enduring interest in the process of decentralisation within health systems and public services more generally. many claims about the benefits of decentralisation are not supported by evidence. it may be useful as an organising framework for analysis of health systems but in this context it lacks conceptu...

A review of the relevant literature confirms the importance of treating organisational issues in order to avoid information systems development failures. To investigate how such issues are treated in practice and the factors associated with their successful treatment a large scale survey was conducted. A questionnaire was mailed to senior IS executives and over 600 responses were received. A ma...

Limited studies have focused on the factors that influence knowledge sharing behaviour of managers in the Malaysian public service. Moreover, little is known about the predictors of knowledge sharing behaviour, incorporating its two dimensions i.e. knowledge donating and knowledge collecting. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to build a knowledge sharing model among managers in the Malaysian ...

This paper proposes a relational capability framework to investigate the main organisational patterns in managing international sourcing activities by multinational companies (MNCs). Specifically, this framework will be adopted in order to examine the current understanding developed in the academic literature of intra-organisational mechanisms supporting international sourcing activities concer...

2 INTRODUCTION In tandem with the increasing interest in knowledge management and organisational learning, knowledge sharing has received strong attention among companies and academics over the last years. Sharing knowledge internally in organisations is often a key concern, and a central means to reap benefits of knowledge and learning. The rationale behind internal knowledge sharing in compar...

The present study assessed the spatial abilities of male and female human participants using different versions of the non-navigational Corsi block-tapping test (CBT) and a search task. Males performed significantly better than females on the standard manual version of the CBT; however, the standard CBT does not allow discrimination between spatial memory span and the role of spatial organisati...