Received: 15 April 2005 Accepted: 31 March 2006 Abstract Knowledge management has emerged as an important field for practice and research in information systems. This field is building on theoretical foundations from information economics, strategic management, organizational culture, organizational behavior, organizational structure, artificial intelligence, quality management, and organizatio...

OBJECTIVES To examine how organizational factors affect good care and mistreatment of older people in care homes. METHODS Eight residential care homes for older people (including private sector, local authority and NHS providers) took part in a participatory observation-based study of organizational factors affecting care quality. RESULTS Grouping organizational factors into infrastructure,...

The purpose of this chapter is to explore organizational knowledge-based practices. A distinguishing feature of the successful post-Network Age enterprise is its intrinsic entrepreneurial character that manifests itself in key organizational knowledge practices relating to organizational culture, processes, content, and infrastructure. The chapter reports on the outcome of field research in whi...

Enterprises typically have to comply with many different legal, regulatory and internal requirements. Particularly in the context of information processing, there are dedicated regulations which demand the protection of the information infrastructure. From the authors’ point of view, organizational aspects are thereby one of the most critical improvement areas. However, the related organization...

The developed infrastructure of a small agricultural business (ISAB) ensures the innovative development production enterprises agro-industrial complex (AIC), solves social problems rural areas and provides employment for population, performing number functions, including: property, financial, consulting, information, legal, , export support businesses (SAB). aim study is to identify SAB search ...

the study focuses on identifying the university incubators existing infrastructure and their role in the university spin-offs establishment. the study adopts an integrated approach as its methodology. the statistical population includes all universities and colleges managers, experts in universities’ incubators in mazandaran province. to perform the sampling, the purposive sampling and stratifi...