One of the most important tasks when developing multiagent systems (MAS) is to determine the overall organizational structure of the system. In this paper we present a service-oriented perspective on the organizational structure of MAS and we present modeling techniques and tools for supporting this perspective. We pursue a model-driven approach and a tight integration between various models on...

Article history: Received 23 May 2008 Received in revised form 13 January 2009 Accepted 15 January 2009 This paper applies a social exchange perspective to understand the internal contingencies of the relationship between entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and performance. It focuses on two aspects of social interactions among functional managers (procedural justice and trust), as well as on thei...

Organizational use of information technology (IT) is increasingly characterized as ‘services’ rather than ‘systems’ to more accurately reflect IT’s impact on organizational practices. We lack, however, frameworks that can help us understand, assess, and design information services in organizational contexts. This paper combines general notions of task, information, and service, to form a theory...

An increasing level of cooperation between public administrations on regional and national levels requires methods to develop interoperable E-Government systems. It leads to the necessity of an efficient modeling of cross-organizational business processes and their subsequent implementation. This is a complex task, since it includes modeling of processes from various perspectives modeling of in...

In this study, we examine how the classic elements of affect, cognition, and behaviour combine to form within-person trajectories of organizational commitment. We test several key features of this ‘dynamic microstructure’ of commitment in an experience sampling setting (25 weekly measurements) among 72 organizational entrants and 23 exiters. We find support for the idea that within-person chang...

The research was conducted in order to determine the organizational socialization levels of nurses working in hospitals in the form of a descriptive study. The research population was composed of nurses employed in public and private sector hospitals in the province of Konya with 0-3 years of professional experience in the hospitals (N=1200); and the sample was composed of 495 nurses that accep...

Many of today's organizations already have a strong integration of groupware systems in their ITinfrastructure. The shared databases of these groupware systems form organizational memories, which comprise the complete knowledge of an organization collected over the time of its existence. One key problem is how to find relevant knowledge in continuously growing and distributed organizational mem...

The traditional lifelong organizational career model no longer remains relevant for many workers, particularly those active in the knowledge economy. Instead these workers are claimed to pursue boundaryless and protean careers. This paper explores management and IT consultants’ experiences and perceptions of career mobility in the UK and the USA. The findings from this multi-level study reveal ...