At present the agent paradigm is often used for computational modeling of human behavior in an organizational setting. However, not many of the existing computational approaches make use of a rich theoretical basis developed in social science. Therefore, often mathematically sound models are invalid in practice. This paper proposes a formal approach for modeling of characteristics and behavior ...

The ability of an organization to be flexible is becoming increasingly important. Within the field of IS, interorganizational systems (IOS) have been proposed as an avenue towards flexibility. This paper proposes an interpretive approach to clarify the complex notion of flexibility and to analyse the impact of IOS on organizational flexibility. It presents a research framework and argues that a...

Traditional companies used to be authoritarian and built around hierarchical organizational charts. Facing more dynamic environments in recent history, many companies experimented with newer forms of organization, usually cutting down long decision paths and fostering lean structures able to react to rapid changes in the marketplace. We believe that the future of organizational structures lies ...

In the evolution path towards the “Always-Connected” era and the trend for even more context-aware services, Device-to-Device communications (D2D) promise to be a key feature of the next-generation mobile networks. Despite remaining technical issues and uncertain business strategies, D2D-based services represent a new market opportunity for mobile operators that would manage to smoothly integra...

knowledge Relevant structures on users’ present work (2) Visions and design proposals (5) Overview of technological options (4) Concrete experience Concrete experience with users’ present work (1) Concrete experience with the new system (6) Concrete experience with technological options (3) 7 Bødker and Kensing: DESIGN IN AN ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT: AN EXPERIMENT Published by AIS Electronic Libr...

Background: Nurses’ job satisfaction is a determining factor in providing high quality and safe care services and obtaining patient satisfaction. It seems that with the implementation of the Transformation Plan for the Iranian Health System and due to changes in various factors such as professional, individual, and organizational circumstances, nurses’ perceived organizational justi...

knowledge Relevant structures on users’ present work (2) Visions and design proposals (5) Overview of technological options (4) Concrete experience Concrete experience with users’ present work (1) Concrete experience with the new system (6) Concrete experience with technological options (3)

Purpose: This paper analyzes the relation between the underlying dimensions of protean (self direction and values driven) and boundaryless (boundaryless mindset and organizational mobility preference) career attitudes (Briscoe et al., 2006) and organizational commitment, within today’s unstable and uncertain business scenario. Design/methodology/approach: Data was collected from 167 professiona...