Sustainability-oriented organizations have typically adopted governance approaches that undertake community participation and collaboration through multistakeholder arrangements. Documented challenges of this model are associated with collaboration and institutional capacity, and include reactive accountability structures, inability to reach consensus, funding limitations, and lack of innovatio...

Social media contributes to blurring organizational boundaries, increasing the prevalence of “boundaryless organizations.” Unable to rely entirely on managerial fiat or market prices that typically facilitate economic action, such “boundaryless organizations” pose a problem for coordinating collective action. In this study, we therefore employ a grounded theory approach to addressing the follow...

extract   if you are young, old or in midlife your new ages activities have different meaning to past times.   same as the other societies in our society, age is one of the essential dimensions of organizations and social associations. for example our school system is based on the students' ages. student behavior is different of their adult teachers based on the ages. more or less families...

Scholars, educators, and media designers are increasingly interested in whether and how digital games might contribute to civic learning. However, there are three main barriers to advancing understanding of games’ potential for civic education: the current practices of formal schooling, a dearth of evidence about what kinds of games best inspire learning about public life, and divergent paradig...

Purpose – This article attempts to begin the process of removing the cloak of causal ambiguity by examining the role that knowledge management has in the creation of the wide variety of competitive advantages found in some organizations. Specifically, this article aims to extend understanding in the field of knowledge management by examining how knowledge management can affect organizational pe...

This paper analyzes Internet diffusion among various organizations, based on daily observation of secondlevel domain name registrations under the “.it” ccTLD. In particular, we analyzed domain names registered by organizations in the non profit sector. The penetration rate, calculated according to the number of organizations, was computed for various widely separated geographic levels (regions)...

This article examines applications of complexity theory within the behavioral and social sciences. Specific attention is given to the fundamental characteristics of complex adaptive systems (CAS)--such as individuals, groups, and societies-including the underlying structure of CAS, the internal dynamics of evolving CAS, and how CAS respond to their environment. Examples drawn from psychology, s...

OBJECTIVE To examine the use and impact of social media on 2-way communication between consumers and public organizations in the food safety and nutrition area. METHODS In-depth qualitative study conducted between October, 2012 and January, 2013, using semi-structured interviews in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sixteen professionals worked on the public interface within 5 national organizat...

Many organizations use social media to enhance collaboration both internally among employees and externally with customers and partners. However, it is not sufficient to just create a presence in some key social environments such as Facebook or YouTube. In order to fully leverage the value of social media, organizations must integrate social media with their business processes, which means new ...

As more business-to-business organizations consider using social media to attract customers, the acceptance of social media technology among employees becomes crucial. We assume particular factors to matter for organizational users as compared to private users. Study 1 which is based on 46 in-depth interviews explores six system design features that are critical for social media usage among org...