The globalization of competition has entailed that organizations of developed countries have to face new kinds of competitors with low labor cost and often advantageous exchange rates (resulting in favorable export selling prices). In such a scenario, innovation and organizational flexibility are becoming fundamental levers to enable enterprises to increase their competitiveness. For this reaso...

A central proposition in organization theory is that discrete organizational forms are matched to environmental conditions, market strategies, or exchange conditions. This paper develops a contrary theoretical proposition. We argue that efficiency may dictate modulating between discrete governance modes (i.e., structural modulation) in response to a stable set of exchange conditions. If governa...

We contemplate the concept of intra-organizational communities of operation to account for the organizational design that has recently emerged. Intra-organizational communities of operation address operative tasks of information workers within the boundaries of a firm. By relying on community principles such as self-coordination and intrinsic motivation, this design is believed to be highly sca...

A hot-issued research topic in the workflow intelligence arena is the emerging topic of “workflow-supported organizational social networks.” These specialized social networks have been proposed to primarily represent the process-driven work-sharing and work-collaborating relationships among the workflow-performers fulfilling a series of workflow-related operations in a workflow-supported organi...

Despite this growing adoption of enterprise architecture (EA), there has been little research that provides compelling empirical evidence of the EA impact on organizational performance. We argue that the lack of strong empirical evidence is due to the complexity of EA configurations and the limitations of the traditional correlation-based methods for uncovering the complex relationships. This r...

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Buying and supplying organizations rely on each other for developing better products in an efficient manner, which explains the popularity of involving suppliers in new product development (NPD). However, such involvement is not always successful, partially due to the challenges of structuring a buyer–supplier team to manage joint dependence and dependence asymmetry. This study adopts an organi...

in recent years, the main focus of health sector reforms in iran is the family physician and referral system plan. fundamental changes in the goals and strategies, has increased the necessity of the need to reform the organizational structure. this study tries to review and summarize all cases about the organizational structure of iran and its challenges in primary health care system.this study...