BACKGROUND The context of healthcare organizations such as hospitals is increasingly accepted as having the potential to influence the use of new knowledge. However, the mechanisms by which the organizational context influences evidence-based practices are not well understood. Current measures of organizational context lack a theory-informed approach, lack construct clarity and generally have m...

Introduction Knowledge translation researchers in the last decade have seen a torrent of publications arguing for the central importance of organizational context in influencing implementation success. The Translating Research in Elder Care (TREC) program investigates the role of organizational context on the use of best practices, provider and resident outcomes in residential long-term care fa...

The i* modeling technique focuses on an early-phase of requirements engineering aiming at understanding how a system would meet organizational goals, how it would fit within the organizational context, why would it be needed and why should it be preferred among other possible alternatives. Analysts are able to understand early the organizational context that bridges system requirements to organ...

BACKGROUND Organizational factors impact the delivery of mental health services in community settings. Mixed-methods analytic approaches have been recommended, though little research within implementation science has explicitly compared inductive and deductive perspectives to understand their relative value in understanding the same constructs. The purpose of our study is to use two different p...

This paper discusses an approach to tailor software development processes and methodologies based on organizational patterns and risk criteria. The purpose of the approach is to adapt an organizational pattern language to the context of a given project. The most suitable organizational patterns to the requirements of the project should be chosen analyzing the risks and the criticality context o...

INTRODUCTION The variable success of integrated care initiatives has led experts to recommend tailoring design and implementation to the organizational context. Yet, organizational contexts are rarely described, understood, or measured with sufficient depth and breadth in empirical studies or in practice. We thus lack knowledge of when and specifically how organizational contexts matter. To fac...

To cope with the already large, and ever increasing, amount of information stored in organizational memory, "forgetting," as an important human memory process, might be transferred to the organizational context. Especially in intentionally planned change processes (e.g., change management), forgetting is an important precondition to impede the recall of obsolete routines and adapt to new strate...

Context-awareness is a common feature of contemporary knowledge management systems (KMS). The intended effect of context-awareness is to tailor appearance, functionality and behavior of KMS to the needs and individual preferences of knowledge workers and to contribute to flexibility in organizational KMS use by supporting the integration of knowledge use into work processes. The variability of ...