In enterprise systems, making decisions is a complex task for agents at all levels of the organizational hierarchy. To calculate an optimal course of action, an agent has to include uncertainties and the anticipated decisions of other agents, recognizing that they also engage in a stochastic, game-theoretic reasoning process. Furthermore, higher-level agents seek to align the interests of their...

In this article, we present an institutionalist organizational perspective on formal gatekeeping, arguing along two fronts: First, identifying gatekeepers provides useful analytic devices for learning about the vocabularies of structure in an organization. Second, successfully managing gatekeepers requires that one understands the vocabularies of structure in use in an organization. We ground o...

projects execution is an important way to implement organizational strategies, especially in the project-based organizations. in such organizations, the decision-makers usually encounter a problem of the project portfolio selection. of course, regarding the decision-makers’ risk attitude, they tend to direct organizational resources toward projects with low threats and high opportunities. this ...

Although there has been increasing interest in the role of affect in work settings, the impact of moods and emotions in strategic decision making remains largely unexplored. In this essay, we address this shortcoming by proposing a conceptual model of strategic decision making that incorporates, at its core, the impact of affective states on cognitive processes that are integral to the decision...

The nature of services in institutions of higher learning requires that all stakeholders play positive roles in the sustainability of the institution’s survival and effectiveness in giving quality teaching, research and learning. Structure and processes are core requirements for understanding organizational effectiveness. The actual scenario in the field, however, raises concerns as to whether ...

Information technology governance is the set of organizational structures that determine decision-making rights and responsibilities with regard to an organisation’s information technology assets. Although an important sub-field of information technology, little research has been done on the issues relating to the governance of decision support systems. This paper argues that decision support s...

Since 1960s, organizational commitment and its antecedents studied from a single– level view; but the study by taking multilevel approach received less attention. In this research, a conceptual cross– level model of organizational commitment antecedents proposed and tested. Data obtained from 461 faculty members of Tehran major universities. Hierarchical linear models examined using HLM6.08. Re...