This paper seeks to offer a comprehensive list of potential barriers to the intra-organizational transfer of best practices. Based on a review of selected literature, three main barrier categories barriers are discussed. The first category is the organizational context, including institutional and organizational environment, absorptive capacity, competency traps, identity, culture, and size. Th...

In this paper we construct an information-theoretic model of architectural drawings. This model is then used to quantify and measure the complexities and similarities of drawings. The approach is applied within a linear qualitative shape representation but can be generalized to other types of representation. The descriptive and analytic power of the proposed methods are demonstrated by studying...

Purpose – Knowledge sharing is the corner-stone of many organisations’ knowledge-management (KM) strategy. Despite the growing significance of knowledge sharing’s practices for organisations’ competitiveness and market performance, several barriers make it difficult for KM to achieve the goals and deliver a positive return on investment. This paper provides a detailed review of current KM and r...

Background: Pain management is among the key tasks of nurses. Numerous studies have investigated the barriers and facilitators of pain management with conflicting results. The current study investigated the Iranian nurses’ perspectives in terms of the barriers and facilitators of pain management in hospitalized patients. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study. A total of 321 nurses working ...

The traditional approaches to safety in risk activities have been applied radiotherapy following the occurrence of serious accidents. This strategy is based on characterization specific risks and definition preventive protective measures, particularly for implementation barriers. Evaluating performance barriers makes it possible, theory, determine level control. article presents a literature re...

The purpose of this research was identified barriers to the successof water users' cooperatives in Dashte Azadegan and Hoveyzeh Townships, Khuzestan Province, Iran. This research was an applied study and the research method was descriptive. Members of water users' cooperatives considered as statistical population. The sample size was 256 farmers based on Krejcie & Morgan table. After designing ...

this study investigates empirically the value investors place in excess cash holdingand how managerial ability impact on the value of cash holding for iranianfirms from 2006 to 2014. in this research, managerial ability calculated by usingthe data envelopment analysis (dea). following the approach of faulkender andwang, we find that the relation between managerial ability and value of cash hold...

Reproductive health care for internally displaced persons (IDPs) is recognised by the Inter-Agency Working Group on Reproductive Health in Refugee Situations and the Reproductive Health Response in Conflict Consortium as a neglected area in humanitarian relief operations. To identify barriers to agencies providing reproductive health care to IDPs, and their strategies for overcoming these barri...