Open standard-based inter-organizational information systems play a critical role in today’s organizations and their relationships with business partners. However, theoretical understanding of organizational adoption of such systems in existing research is limited. Prior studies highlight the role of the external business environment in influencing organizational adoption of such systems, but l...

OBJECTIVES To use organizational change theory to explore the interplay of contextual influences on patient safety. METHODS A multi-level comparative case study of eight National Health Service (NHS) acute hospital trusts in England, including 144 depth interviews with senior managers, staff involved with risk analysis and reporting, middle managers, and senior and junior clinicians, suppleme...

In transition to community-based forest management (CBFM) paradigm, transformation in the role of foresters from ‘controller’ to ‘facilitator ‘, is taken for granted. Given the militaristic culture of forestry agencies in most developing countries, this change is bound to face resistance. Using structural equation modeling technique, this paper examines two dimensions of resistance – disapprova...

the effect of organizational knowledge creation on organizational adaptive capacitycase study: employees of university of tabrizabstractnowadays, organizations success depends on their ability to adapt to the changing environmental factors. in other words change in today’s world is rapid and successful adaptation is an important part of success in today’s era. accordingly, adaptability capacity...

identifying the factors affecting entrepreneurship has always been one of the concerns of scientists. the emphasis has been changed from external and hard factors to internal and hard drives. accordingly, the present paper will investigate the effect of social capital on organizational entrepreneurship with the moderating role of job motivation. this paper, from objective point of view and type...

Through investigation on farmer, company and relevant bureau of local government, an analysis was conducted on organizational evolution of flower industrial cluster through induction and statistical methods. The research indicated that the organizational scale and structure had been unceasingly evolved during the process resulting in such industrial cluster. In recent years, the industrial clus...