The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact of organizational stress, knowledge management, and organizational change on organizational effectiveness. A valid questionnaire was distributed to administrative staff and faculty members of different educational institutes. 100 questionnaires were distributed in public and private educational sectors. 75 complete questionnaires were received ...

Although the relationship of information technology (IT) capability and knowledge capability with organizational agility has been documented, limited information is available on the extent to which these two capabilities affect organizational agility. Attempts to understand the effect of IT and knowledge capability on organizational agility in the presence of contextual factors have also been f...

This paper contributes to the literature on organizational change by examining organizations as social entities embedded in inter-organizational networks. In contrast with extant research that focuses on macro environmental and internal factors to explain organizational change, we put forth the social network surrounding the firm as a major driver of any change process. Specifically, we examine...

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...

today’s organizations especially university and other educational institutes face a rapidly changing environment where they must continuously innovate in order to remain competitive. however, this cannot occur unless a plentiful supply of rich ideas and solutions from an organizational creativity’s process. this study was conducted with purpose of identifying organizational creativity’s stimula...

this paper investigates the factors affecting the organizational commitment of the khorasan razavi’s gas company’s staff in the central office of mashhad. the method of research was survey and the data was collected using a standard questionnaire. the population was consisted of 200 personnel and the sample included 66 individuals from the company’s staff which were selected though stratified s...

one of the increasingly important organizational considerations involves occupational health and staff safety. hence, it is crucial for the managers to identify the key organizational factors contributing to reduce work-related accidents. this study was conducted on 340 workers, employees, experts, supervisors, directors, and managers. the data evaluation involved a questionnaire while the anal...

The growing prominence of virtual organizations, such as Dell and Amazon.Com, has demonstrated the potential for virtual governance structures to achieve greater competitiveness than their more traditional counterparts. The designs of such organizations typically support three important characteristics: virtual customer interaction, virtual sourcing of complementary resources and assets from a ...