This paper analyses student construction of case studies, using dialogue and role plays, to stimulate and consolidate understand of organization communication research , theory and methodology. Students undertaking a course as part of a Masters program in communication management need to absorb a range of organizational research perspectives and organizational communication theories. Making the...

This study examined hospital-based nurses’ experiences of structurational divergence. I used a semi-structured narrative approach to interview 10 hospital-based nurses and data was analyzed using phenomenological methods. This resulted in the identification of the following three themes, which capture instances of structurational divergence and resulting interpersonal, intrapersonal, and organi...

This paper discusses the evaluation of knowledge management systems through the 7C model for organizational knowledge creation. The model is based on the distinction of individual and organizational knowledge and explicit and tacit knowledge. The 7C model suggests that the seven Cs, i.e. Connection, Concurrency, Comprehension, Communication, Conceptualization, Collaboration, and Collective inte...

The CEC GOAL Project (Esprit 6283) aims to develop generic software tools to support inter-organizational project management. Some distinguishing characteristics of inter-organizational projects are that they are collaborative, decentralised and heterogeneous. This means that generic issues in project management (such as risk and uncertainty) take on an extra dimension, and there are many new p...

Due to bandwidth limitations in cellular communications, the same bandwidth is allocated to beams which are isolated spatially. This is known as frequency reuse, and the beams operating at the same frequency are referred as co-channel beams. While this approach allows a large coverage area with limited bandwidth, the co-channel beams have the potential to interfere with each other. This is know...

In recent years, with the rapid development of wireless communication, the traditional cellular with isomorphic and regular structure has been unable to meet the increasing number of users and business needs involving data of big volume. The trend is evolving into Ultra Dense Network (UDN) architecture which is covered by cellular of irregular complex structure. In UDN, the spatial distribution...

The organizational competitive intelligence arises as a strategic process that propitiates converting data, information and knowledge into competitive differentials for the organization. The problem of research focuses on the manner that manager‟s practice, recognize the importance of seeking, sharing, and use behaviors of information and information and communication technology to the organiza...

* All authors contributed equally to this paper. The authors would like to thank the Centre for International Business Studies, the Faculty of Management at the University of Manitoba, and the Richard Ivey School of Business for funding part of the data collection and analysis. The authors would also like to thank the Mennonite Central Committee for providing access to the data and previous rev...

The paper focuses on the process of inter-organizational knowledge transfer and on the potential of Electronic Communication systems (ElCom). First, the different forms of knowledge exchanged by firms are classified. Then, different models are proposed of inter-organizational communication, in order to describe each particular kind of knowledge transfer process. As a result, it is argued that, ...

background: a cross sectional study conducted to identify the organizational factors associated to the occupational stress among lecturers in selected community colleges, peninsular malaysia. methods: study was conducted by using cluster-sampling method and 189 self-administrated questionnaires were distributed. a validated malay version of job content questionnaire (jcq) was used to obtain the...