Knowledge is currently considered a major organizational asset as it enables the achievement of competitive advantage. Sharing knowledge can help an organization achieve better organizational performance through the implementation of new ideas, processes, products and/or services. This paper studies the relationship between knowledge sharing, composed of two processes (donation and collection )...

This paper proposes the use of cognitive schemata to model metacognitive social phenomena, characterizing the reciprocity between micro and macro dimensions in an organization. The main idea that rationalizes this research is that explicit modeling of social cognitive constructs might improve the understanding of organizational culture and learning processes. In this sense, organizational actor...

Organizational practices are an increasingly important mechanism for retaining and motivating employees. Using a new survey tool in partnership with PayScale.com between 2014 and 2016, I first document the cross-section of job satisfaction and organizational practices in the labor market, and, secondly, recover a willingness to pay for these amenities. I show that these amenities create a time-...

The paper at hand presents a new competence focused management approach which is called competence based business development (CbBD). CbBD should support organizations of all kinds in the effective identification, measurement, combination and integration of organizational competences, which can be seen as a bundle of human competencies, tools and material. The creation of new business fields, p...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory tract infection caused by a newly emergent coronavirus. Iran is one of the countries affected by the disease. Health center services have a critical role in response to the COVID-19 outbreak. This study with the aim of providing the functions and services of primary health care was performed by a health center in Iran during the COVID-19 outb...

This paper focuses on the issue of ontological analysis for organizational structure modeling in the ARIS method with the following contributions: (i) an interpretation of the language in terms of realworld entities in the UFO foundational ontology; (ii) the identification of inappropriate elements of the language, using a systematic ontology-based analysis approach; and (iii) recommendations f...