Using a database of branch managers in retail banks, this study finds some empirical support for the two main predictions of Jensen and Meckling’s (1992) theory on organizational design choices: a) the allocation of decision rights to branch managers is associated with control systems that measure their performance and reward them based on these performance measures, and b) these decision right...

We conducted surveys of fire and fuels managers at local, regional, and national levels to gain insights into decision processes and information flows in wildfire management. Survey results in the form of fire managers’ decision calendars show how climate information needs vary seasonally, over space, and through the organizational network, and help determine optimal points for introducing clim...

a culture conducive to information security practice is extremely important for organizations since information has to be critical assets in modern enterprises. thus for understanding and improving the organizational behavior with regard to information security, enterprises may look into organizational culture and examine how it affects the effectiveness of implementing ism. this study aims to ...

This qualitative study assessed clients' participation in organizational decision making in a public long-term psychiatric hospital. Numerous examples were found in which clients meaningfully participated in the decision-making process and achieved favorable policy changes. Three means of involving clients were found to be especially useful: (1) using a consumer council, (2) involving clients i...

This thesis explains grassroots implementations of decision support systems by project teams implementations driven by the members of a project team working at the operational level from the perspectives of the three main stakeholders that are involved in managing the life-cycle of a decision support system: project team members, technology managers of project-based companies, and developers of...

This paper proposes and tests a model to explain three critical outcomes of Performance Management Systems (PMS): information quality, effectiveness, and usefulness of the PMS to managerial decision-making. Drawing from Organizational Information Processing Theory (OIPT), we examined how those three outcomes may be influenced by factors that affect OIP requirements (industry, size, and geograph...

the main purpose of this research was to study of relation between organizational health and organizational entrepreneurship in the university of tehran. the main research instrument was an electronic questionnaire, which consisted of two parts: organizational health and organizational entrepreneurship. the statistical population of the research consisted of all staffs of in the university of t...

This paper presents our evolving view of organizational p anning. We discuss lessons we are learning by studying examples of real-world organizational planning. Our approach to this topic is interdisciplinary and founded on a view of planning as a form of resource-constrained decision making under uncertainty. We xamine how considerations of planning as a multi-agent process dictates extensions...

For more than three decades healthcare decentralization has been promoted in developing countries as a way of improving the financing and delivery of public healthcare. Decision autonomy under healthcare decentralization would determine the role and scope of responsibility of local authorities. Jalal Mohammed, Nicola North, and Toni Ashton analyze decision autonomy within decentralized services...