In this paper we explore the information processing problem of the firm by modeling the firm as type of network, which is comprised of two kinds of agents, ’searchers’ and ’managers.’ The searchers explore the external environment and report the information to the managers. We study the role of centralization/decentralization in organizational structure to see how it affects performance of a fi...

Abstract Research on firm-level innovativeness indicates that internal resistances in the innovating organization and external marketplace act as critical hindrances to successful commercialization of innovations. We suggest translation product into new products is facilitated when firms’ organizational structures are designed unleash their abilities overcome these resistances. examine relation...

People have long speculated about the relation between information technology (IT) and centralization in organizations. For example, previous research has reported various cases in which IT appears to have led to more centralization, more decentralization, or no change in centralization. In this paper we describe a simple new way to model the relationship between IT and the structure of organiz...

AIM This article is a report of a study that identifies organizational characteristics explaining employee solidarity in the long-term care sector. BACKGROUND Employee solidarity reportedly improves organizations' effectiveness and efficiency. Although general research on solidarity in organizations is available, the impact of the organizational context on solidarity in long-term care setting...

In this paper, we build a theoretical framework for quantitatively measuring and graphically representing the degrees of closeness centralization among performers assigned to enact a workflow procedure. The degree of closeness centralization of a workflow-performer reflects how near the performer is to the other performers in enacting a corresponding workflow model designed for workflow-support...

The objective of this research was to analyze the organizational culture of a Brazilian public hospital. It is a descriptive study with quantitative approach of data, developed in a public hospital of São Paulo State, Brazil. The sample was composed by 52 nurses and 146 nursing technicians and auxiliaries. Data were collected from January to June 2011 using the Brazilian Instrument for Assessin...

This study is about the structure embedded in e-mail relationships. Based on data describing organizational e-mail exchanges, this research deals with organizational structure, personal power, and the centrality of people in a network. Social network analysis is used to study the centralization dimension of the structure embedded in the data. The data concerns 385 employees of 36 firms within a...

Organizational Modeling with a Semantic Wiki: Formalization of Meanings and Automatic Diagram Generation