undoubtedly, information technology (it) has undergone extensive developments in various social and economic spheres; its effect on human society is in such a way that the world today is referred as information society. besides, information technology, attributed as the main agent of global change, is to achieve meta- organization purposes. it also pertains to appropriate information formulated...

Since the second half of the past century, increasingly flexible organizational forms are appearing among firms. However, while hierarchies are easily described, too few mathematical tools are available for flexible organizations. In this article, two Lyapunov functions are proposed in order to assess the state and trend of flexible organizations. The first of these functions is based on inform...

The goal of this paper is to present the constructive confrontation approach to management of organizational culture. The approach provides for transformation of confrontation caused by differences between the new values of a declared organizational culture and the current values of employees in constructive process. Constructive confrontation allows for the concentration of energies and capaci...

In this paper, a new model of representing semantics called the concept relational tree model is proposed. The model adapts the architecture of expression tree in providing a hierarchical organization to semantics. It is motivated by an approach known as the discourse structure tree that organizes semantics based on preposition and relies on rhetorical relations to define the connection between...

Research on the agile and adaptive enterprise promotes real time dashboards as a powerful tool to provide coordination and control. Recent trends in market volatility have led firms to restructure around what organizational theorists term an “adhocracy”. Service oriented architecture represents an emerging architectural mechanism to align an organization’s processes with the flexible structure ...

this study aims to investigate the current and desired situation of information and communication technologies (ict), organizational structure and firm performance in consultant engineering firms. to do so, a descriptive-exploratory study was performed among 252 managers and experts of consultant engineering firms in tehran. a cluster sampling approach was used bya self-administrated questionna...

There is an increasing importance of different productive architectures related to worker involvement in the decision making, where is given due attention to the intuitive capabilities and the human knowledge in the optimization and flexibilization of manufacturing processes. Thus having reference point architecture of a flexible manufacturing and assembling system existent at UNINOVA-CRI, we w...

it study examined the relationship between humor on organizational culture and group cohesion using factor analysis deals. the population of this studies all technical and professional staff, kermanshah university has established who relative advantage of using random sampling of 181 individuals was selected morgan and using questionnaire data collected, amos and software tests. results indicat...