University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Agricultural & Consumer Economics, Marketing/Decision Sciences Group, 1301 West Gregory Drive, Urbana, Ill inois 61801 Wageningen University, Department of Social sciences, Marketing & Consumer Behavior Group, Hollandseweg 1, 6706 KN Wageningen, The Netherlands Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P.O. Box 1738, ...

This descriptive study takes stock of the nation's health services and health policy research capacity by profiling the organizational models, operational challenges and success strategies utilized by Canadian academic health policy research centres. While each such centre is unique, the results point to some common themes, including symbiotic relationships between centres and their ministries ...

Using a recently developed model, inspired by mean field theory in statistical physics, and data from the UK’s Research Assessment Exercise, we analyse the relationship between the quality of statistics and operational research groups and the quantity researchers in them. Similar to other academic disciplines, we provide evidence for a linear dependency of quality on quantity up to an upper cri...

Knowledge sharing is of central importance for many organizations. Since knowledge sharing is that important for organizations, much research has delved into factors determining the amount and quality of knowledge sharing within organizations. This paper will focus on the relational and motivational dimension of knowledge sharing, since this dimension of knowledge sharing is not fully understoo...

organizational forgetting is new concept that recently entered to organization and management literature and researchers attend to it. current research investigates the effect of organizational forgetting (intentional and accidental) on organizational learning process. research design is descriptive, survey and in terms of goal is applicable. data was gathered by means of researcher made questi...

organizations are networks of unites and individuals enhancing organizational performance through cooperation and synergy. it is achieved by developing meaningful and purposeful communications of unites and individuals .thus, it is essential to make organizational communications efficient in order to achieve organizational purposes. in this essay, we examined the variables and factors affecting...