This study investigates the relationships between U.S. buying firms’ supplier development efforts, commitment, social capital accumulation with key suppliers, and buying firm performance. We identify linkages between supply chain management research on supplier development and organization theory research on social capital to consider how buying firm commitment to a long-term relationship, cogn...

This study builds a multi-level research model to investigate how social capital between business units and the headquarters in large-scale organizations influences individual user acceptance of enterprise systems. Drawing on social capital theory and the human agency theory, this study argues that local management of business units plays the role of interpreting signals and messages from the h...

in recent decades, due to the complexity of the environment, interorganizational collaboration has become the major source of competitive advantage for firms. researches suggested that many of these partnership structures will meet failure in long term. accordingly, this study based on system dynamics method was investigated the critical success factors of strategic alliances in the ceramics an...

the purpose of this research is to predict knowledge sharing through dimensions of social capital. knowledge sharing occurrence depends directly upon tendency of knowledge holder to sharing as well as knowledge receiver to take it from holders. in other side, social capital is defined as linkage among people and their unifying factors such as trust. in this research, social capital is conceptua...

We also thank patients and providers in the nine hospitals that participated in data collection for the study reported here. In this paper we explore a causal mechanism through which high performance work systems affect performance outcomes. We propose a model in which a particular type of high performance work system – a relational work system – enhances organizational performance by creating ...

in era of service economy, organizations' success depends significantly on providing quality services. therefore, organizations are in the idea of employing tools such as knowledge management to survive. human activities such as knowledge sharing among organizational members are the foundation of knowledge management in organizations. recent studies have shown that the relational psychological ...

the current world is the era of wisdom and knowledge. endowments, natural and tangible assets are not the key factor for success of communities and organizations; instead, management of intangible assets in this turbulent and challenging environment for the organizations are the key success factor for them. the organizations which are able to recognize these assets and manage them properly woul...