How do organizational factors influence knowledge retention and storage within companies? In this study, we examine the influence of organizational structure on organizational memory. We are specifically interested in the effects of specialization and standardization—dimensions of the organizational structure—on organizational memory as conceptualized by Walsh and Ungson (1991) and Argote (2005...

background: although many planners of professional continuing education programs believe that this type of education positively affects the nurses’ performance, the results obtained by conducted research do not confirm such a perspective. in fact, inadequate application of these trainings in clinical practice is among the most challenging areas in nursing practices. hence, this study was conduc...

Grid computing is a technology that offers the opportunity to share IT-resources between departments in organizations as well as between different organizations. Thereby adopters may obtain significant advantages like cost reduction and efficient IT-resource load balancing. Nevertheless this technology is not established in the industry by now. We developed an adoption model to measure the majo...

one of the major challenges towards the programs of organizational improvement and change is resistance to change due to suspicion. for this reason, it is required that organizations identify the triggers of suspicion, trying to control and eliminate the resultant factors. this study was performed among hospital staffs including, sina, shariati and imam khomeini and the sample size was 260. bas...

background: the concept of organizational learning capability (olc) emphasizes the importance of facilitating factors for organizational learning or the organizational propensity to learn. consequently, measures of olc have traditionally determined their dimensions or facilitating factors based on the literature. the purpose of this study was to validate and evaluate the factorial construction ...