Prior research has indicated that employee turnover is detrimental to both individuals and organisations. Because a turnover intention in the workplace is detrimental, several factors have been suggested to better understand the reasons why employees may decide to leave their organisations. Some of the organizational-related factors that have been considered by previous research include perceiv...

along with other areas in our country, the research in medical sciences is a necessity for the maintenance and improvement of community health. the objectives of this study were to determine the intra-organizational factors of conducting research in tabriz university of medical sciences. the matrix of the study included entire academic members and research staff of the university where 121 of t...

Structural changes and increasing market dynamics in the healthcare sector intensify the health providers’ need for cost-savings and process optimisation. To address actual drawbacks the adoption of eHealth is currently seen as opportunity to improve not only effectiveness and efficiency but also quality of health services. Data quality aspects will therefore gain in importance. As the actual u...

prior research has indicated that employee turnover is detrimental to both individuals and organisations. because a turnover intention in the workplace is detrimental, several factors have been suggested to better understand the reasons why employees may decide to leave their organisations. some of the organizational-related factors that have been considered by previous research include perceiv...

This study aims at understanding the factors influencing the organisational adoption of eHealth by Dutch hospitals. This study proposes a model for organisational eHealth adoption based on the Technological-Organisational-Environmental (TOE) framework and elements of the Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) theory. The following factors were identified and included in the model for examining their in...

In this paper we investigate social dimension of knowledge in an organisational context. Inspired and informed by sensemaking views of organisations (Weick, 1995), our inquiry focuses on knowledge as both an input to and a product of sensemaking processes at four different levels in organisations: the intra-subjective sensemaking of an individual; the inter-subjective sensemaking in social inte...

The present study explores the relationship between the e-business maturity and the perceived benefits from (Information and Communication Technologies) ICT at the firm level. We aim to debunk this relationship in terms of its strength and stability, and to explore the conditions which may influence it. Taking an economic approach, we hypothesise that the relation between e-business maturity an...

The majority of studies into Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) based systems focus on the technical and engineering aspects of such systems. Where research expands outside this scope, it tends to focus on single supply chains set either within the private sector, or less commonly the public sector. This research examines RFID based systems, asking the question “what factors or issues mediat...

BACKGROUND Effective implementation of change in healthcare organisations involves multiple professional and organisational groups and is often impeded by professional and organisational boundaries that present relatively impermeable barriers to sharing knowledge and spreading work practices. Informed by the theory of communities of practice (CoPs), this study explored the effects of intra-orga...