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...

Note: This study investigated six dimensions of effective board performance, as suggested by Chait, Holland, and Taylor (1991), in relation to three theoretical explanations (agency theory, resource dependency theory, and group/decision process theory) of how board governance activities potentially influence organizational performance. Survey research findings revealed that strategic contributi...

1. Requirements This paper continues our explorations 1, 3, 2] into the implementation of extensible DL reasoners that try to maintain a model-like data-structure, rather than using a refutation technique 1 A DL-KBMS 2 typically manages a set of named concept deenitions (\classes"), including maintaining an up-to-date taxonomy of them organized by speciicity according to subsumption. In practic...

One of the hallmark assumptions of behavioral models is that individuals and organizations learn and adjust their behavior in response to experience (March and Simon, 1958). In the behavioral theory of the firm, Cyert and March (1963) elaborated the basic behavioral assumption by calling attention to organizational learning. Levitt and March (1988) developed these assumptions into a model of or...

background: attention to organizational citizenship behavior and job satisfaction is effective in improving employees’ performance and quality of services in health care organizations. due to higher job pressure and dissatisfaction among nurses, it seems like evaluating the relationship between organizational citizenship behavior and job satisfaction among nurses is important.   methods: in thi...