this study aims to investigate the current and desired situation of information and communication technologies (ict), organizational structure and firm performance in consultant engineering firms. to do so, a descriptive-exploratory study was performed among 252 managers and experts of consultant engineering firms in tehran. a cluster sampling approach was used bya self-administrated questionna...

Text processing in organizations is one of the major challenges to modern information management. Recent technological advances in Text-Based Intelligent Systems (TBIS) should allow the processing of large volumes of text in a more efficient, effective, and intelligent manner, and so should significantly facilitate organizational text processing. There are five types of TBIS: automatic indexing...

Social network models can help explain how and why some organizational structures and practices work. Moreover, network analysis is accessible to engineering practitioners and is particularly effective in helping us understand the value of Team Software Process (TSP). Networks not only offer an explanation of how TSP works with respect to communication, but also suggest that as we scale beyond ...

In this research, we study inter-organizational collaboration from the perspective of multi-relational networks. We develop an agent-based model to simulate how a collaboration network among organizations emerges from organizations’ interactions through another network: the inter-organizational communication network. Our model adds links (or edges) into the collaboration network on the basis of...

This paper reports on an exploratory case study investigating the proposition that a locally-embedded organization may exhibit a natural tendency towards ethnocentric perspectives in website communication. Particularly, in multicultural audience environments, such as exist in international tourism, ethnocentric website communication may impede the consistent formation of desired organizational ...