in the competitive environment, service and manufacturing organizations try to improve the quality of their services and productions. in this regard, information systems are the important factors in achieving competitive advantages. but many organizations don’t know anything about the influential factors on the success of information systems. literature suggests a number of factors, so that the...

Investment in information technology (IT) infrastructure has in recent years become a strategic organizational choice. Yet, there exists little understanding of the organizational factors that determine IT infrastructure capabilities and investment requirements. Using a filed survey of both business and IT executives, this study tests a research model that links a set of organizational factors ...

Investment in information technology (IT) infrastructure has in recent years become a strategic organizational choice. Yet, there exists little understanding of the organizational factors that determine IT infrastructure capabilities and investment requirements. Using a filed survey of both business and IT executives, this study tests a research model that links a set of organizational factors ...

Organizational culture continues to be cited as one of the most important factors for organizations’ success in an increasingly competitive and IT-driven global environment. Given the fact that organizational culture has an influence all over the organization, the complexity of its nature is increased when considering the relationship between business and IT. As a result, different factors that...

the puppose of this research is identification of the impact of organizational culture factors and organizational structure factors on whistle-blowing. we used mixed method. at first stage, we used qualitative method; so, we used delphi technic and finally, by reaching consensus comments, we found 21 items with 0/441 coefficient of agreement. then, in the second stage, we use quantitative appro...

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...

Purpose: The current research, which is of the grounded theory type, was conducted with the aim of designing a model for developing strategic thinking of Islamic Azad University administrators. Methodology: The statistical population of this study is academic experts who have experience and education related to research in Azad University. The snowball method was used for sampling and the numb...

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...