Despite the relatively recent advent of organizational ethics committees--created to address operational concerns that are not always appropriate for a clinical ethics committee to take on--there remain impediments (such as time constraints, limited ethical expertise, lack of senior leaders at the table, and waning interest of members) to the impact such a group might have. Committed to address...

While much of the development of learning organizations within libraries has taken place in large academic institutions, Peter Senge’s theoretical concepts are just as valuable in public libraries, even comparatively small rural libraries. Utilizing the University of Arizona Library as a case study, a prototype of an organizational structure based on teams has been developed for the Teton Count...

Health care is a complex and transnational task of societies. The various institutions and individuals involved are not and should not be governed by one central authority, but have legitimate and sometimes diverging interests. Balancing these interests has been subject to organizational and legal procedures traditionally. Today, institutions like hospitals and practices are no longer employers...

We present an approach, called BIZ2BIS (from Business Models to the Blueprint of the Information System), to help design, discuss, and evaluate inter-organizational business models without a central point of authority, and also derive high-level requirements for their underlying IS. Its iterative and incremental nature enables the identification of attractive value propositions for all particip...

This paper explores how different models of sociality can contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of knowledge sharing within different organizational settings. It is asserted that the dynamics of knowledge sharing is organized according to a mix of four relational models distinguished by the relation models theory (Fiske, 1991). It is described how each of these models (communal s...

This paper explores how different models of social relations can contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of knowledge sharing within different organizational settings. It is asserted that the dynamics of knowledge sharing is organized according to a mix of four relational models distinguished by the relation models theory (Fiske, 1991). It is described how each of these models (com...

Due to the change of society, the development of technology, the cross straight interaction and the internationalization of Taiwan over past decades, police officers faced more severe criminal conditions when they executed their duties. From 2002 to 2006, 103 police officers died and 2,791 police officers were wounded on duty, and 37 were committed suicide, according to the National Police Agen...

Day dawns through pink skies Travelling curiosity Savour the flavour The central discussion in this paper is that poetry can be used to create a fusion between tangible, rational and explicit knowledge and tacit or implicit knowledge, providing opportunities to access new organizational knowledge and understandings and learning. The paper takes the form of a case study of 60 middle and senior U...

Given assumptions about the characteristics of knowledge and the knowledge requirements of production, the firm is conceptualized as an institution for integrating knowledge. The primary contribution of the paper is in exploring the coordination mechanisms through which firms integrate the specialist knowledge of their members. In contrast to earlier literature, knowledge is viewed as residing ...

The past decade has seen the emergence of an enduring interest in the study of organizational communication from an interpretive perspective. In a comprehensive critique, Putnam (1983) notes that past functionalist research treated “social phenomena as concrete, materialistic, entities-types of social facts” (p. 34) and “organizational charts as fixed, concrete structures that determine authori...