As a community-based innovation, the Open Source Software (OSS) development phenomenon has received great attention from both researchers and practitioners. Understanding what and how certain factors affect OSS project participants’ involvement and contribution is of significance to facilitate OSS project success. The current paper investigates the black box of motivations’ effects on participa...

Pay-for-performance (P4P) has recently been introduced in Nigeria to improve quality of health services. Its early results show significant variation between implementation sites. Literature suggests this might be explained by differences in design, context and implementation of the scheme. This study aimed to explore how context and implementation influence P4P in Nigeria. Semi-structured in-d...

facing the issues with structural complexity about which stakeholders have different views, has increasingly led to the use of soft systems methodology (ssm) in solving managerial problems. moreover, the flaws of this methodology in the stages of modeling and feasible, desirable changes, have provided the motivation for applying cognitive map (cm) and system dynamics in the ssm modeling. presen...

The purpose of this paper is to advocate the managerial practice of making decisions based not only on intuition, but intuition coupled with quantitative analysis. Operations Research (OR) or Optimization is one of the leading managerial decision science tools used by profit and nonprofit organizations such as Ford Motors, AT&T, Merrill Lynch, Samsung, US Army Recruitment and Olympic games orga...

This article aims to review and identify critical factors of the implementation of knowledge management systems (KMS) for Iranian IT based organizations and clarifying the effect of KMS in organization success. The study determines several important factors affecting the implications of the knowledge management systems such as Motivation among KMS’s users and stakeholders, Flexibility and chang...

Much of the evidence on managerial biases in corporate finance focuses CEO and, particular, overconfidence. This singular focus can lead to misattribution as it ignores roles other managers who are responsible for a given outcome. We evaluate influence CFO and C-suite executives compared with CEO. Mirroring widely used Longholder measure overconfidence, we construct Other measures. For financin...

Even a cursory review of the various business and management sub-disciplines in the post-war period reveals the ebb and flow of a whole series of management and organisational innovations: the 1980s heralded the rise of ‘Quality Circles’, ‘Portfolio Management’, MBWA (‘Management by Wandering Around’), and the focus on ‘Excellence’, to name but a few; in the 1990s the fashionable themes shifted...