abstract background: this integrative review was aimed to examine in literature and integrate the determinants of nurses’ organizational commitment in hospital settings. materials and methods: in this study, an integrative review of the literature was used. the search strategy began with six electronic databases (e.g. cinahl and medline). considering the inclusion criteria, published studies th...

This paper examines the effects of certain achievement-related personal characteristics on firm-specific variation in the salary attainment of white male managers of a utility firm. Special emphasis is given to assessing the degree to which the effects of personal attributes on current salary are transmitted via starting salary and/or via the rate of increase in salary. Characteristics found to...

This study examined the perceptions of Information Systems (IS) developers from the U.S. and Korea with regards to the strategies that are considered crucial for IS success. The results of a principal component analysis revealed that the IS development strategies could be classified into four categories: (1) Organizational Integration, (2) Team Member Characteristics, (3) Project Leader Traits,...

Based on theories from the technological innovation literature, this study develops an integrated model of information systems (IS) adoption in small businesses. The model specifies contextual variables such as decision-maker characteristics , IS characteristics, organizational characteristics, and environmental characteristics as primary determinants of IS adoption in small businesses. A quest...

The concept of organizational identity has its roots in the exploration of identity in an individual level. The concept of organizational identity was introduced by Albert and Whetten in 1985. They suggested that organizational identity embodies the characteristics of an organization, that its members perceive to be central, distinctive, and enduring (or continuing) in an organization when past...

Knowledge Management (KM) practice proposes a series of services designed to reduce the difficulty of sourcing knowledge, i.e. getting the right knowledge to the right people at the right time. The phenomenon studied here is a specific type of KM service the Expert Recommending Service (ERS) which contributes to achieving the difficult objective of getting the right expert to the right people a...

UNLABELLED ABSTBACKGROUND: Evidence-based practices have not been routinely adopted in community mental health organizations despite the support of scientific evidence and in some cases even legislative or regulatory action. We examined the association of clinician attitudes toward evidence-based practice with organizational culture, climate, and other characteristics in a nationally representa...

the use of a single research method design can hardly bring to light multiple aspects of a social phenomenon. the interdisciplinary characteristics of organization and management, requires the student of the field to go beyond traditional approaches normally used in social science studies. the researcher has to apply triangulation in order to unmusk many facets of organizational phenomenon. thi...

Todays, under the competitive conditions, organizational entrepreneurship can play an important role in the success of organizations and make them differentiate from others. Therefore, gaining of knowledge about the factors affecting organizational entrepreneurship is of particular importance. Accordingly, the purpose of this research was to identify and rank the factors affecting organizationa...