Knowledge management is the process of capturing, storing, sharing and using organizational knowledge with the aim of improving organizational performance. A necessary precursor for successful knowledge management initiatives is knowledge exchange between employees. This exchange is voluntary and highly dependent on an individual’s willingness to share his/her knowledge. It thus becomes importa...

In this paper we present an approach to design an Organized Multiagent Systems (OMAS) for teamwork. We use a general formal model for OMAS that employs the notion of organizational mechanisms. The purpose of such mechanisms is influencing the behaviour of the agents towards more effectiveness with regard to some objectives. To achieve our goal we use Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) as a framew...

The goal of this article is to frame some new directions to social comparison research in organizational settings. Four themes are developed. First, we examine the role of organizational variables in shaping the basic sub processes in social comparison, such as the selection of referents. The second theme focuses on the meaning of level of analysis in social comparison processes. The third them...

A Multi-Agent System (MAS) is an organization of coordinated autonomous agents that interact in order to achieve particular, possible common goals. Considering real world organizations as an analogy, this paper proposes MAS architectural patterns for information systems which adopt concepts from organizational theories. The patterns are modeled using the i* framework which offers the notions of...

From a viewpoint of “knowledge management”, collaborative space for learning is an aid to encourage organizational members (e.g. employee) to acquire or create important organizational intellect (e.g. knowledge) through group activity (e.g. a free discussion). In this paper we focus on design of collaborative space, which is a key for organization to grow, and aim to improve the quality of coll...

The organization's responsiveness represents an important concept related to both performance and market environment. This empirical study analyzes the relationship between responsiveness and organizational culture in the context of Romanian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The country offers a business context with many changes over the last two decades, a challenge and an opportunit...

This paper introduces network analysis as a way to theorize about another dimension of relationships: interorganizational relationships. Through a case study of inter-organizational relationships in the civil society movement in Croatia, this paper outlines the various ways public relations serves a relationship building function. Through the use of network analysis, we propose a model of how o...

Modeling and analyzing inter-organizational business processes is complicated substantially by heterogeneous process-modeling languages (e.g., surface vs. analysis languages) as well as by their inherent properties of loose coupling and local control (views). On top, multiple concerns must be addressed when modeling interorganizational business processes, such as process data, behavior, distrib...