The Supply Chain (SC) organizational structure, and related management policies, is an important factor that can be adjusted to improve the SC performance, which consequently has to be taken into account in the SC modeling and simulation. In the context of an agent-based SC simulation, this paper addresses a new methodological framework, organizationally oriented, which permits modeling and sim...

Computational analyses of organizational behavior employ either intellective or emulative models [1]. The model described in this paper 1 is an intellective models. Intellective models are usually abstract, small, relatively simple, and incorporate only a few parameters. They help modelers make general predictions about trends and the relative benefit of organizational changes, identify the ran...

Multiculturalism and Performance 2 The following research investigates the question, if multiculturalism and diversity benefits often presumed to increase organizational creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities can be unanimously substantiated and quantified within the context of typical business-oriented organizational performance indicators, such as sales-to-goal achiev...

An individual’s reluctance to report bad news about a troubled IT project has been found to be an important contributor to project failure. While there are a variety of factors influencing the reluctance to report, prior IS research has mainly focused on situational factors rather than personal and organizational factors. In this paper, we examine the effects of certain organizational factors o...

BACKGROUND Childhood obesity is a 'wicked' public health problem that is best tackled by an integrated approach, which is enabled by integrated public health policies. The development and implementation of such policies have in practice proven to be difficult, however, and studying why this is the case requires a tool that may assist local policy-makers and those assisting them. A comprehensive...

Health financing policies are marked by confusion between policy tools and policy objectives, especially in low and middle income countries. This paper attempts to address this problem by providing a conceptual framework that is driven by the normative objective of enhancing the 'insurance function' (access to needed care without financial impoverishment) of health care systems. The framework i...

Many organizational and environmental factors affect the information disclosure and the quality of its presentation; organizational culture is the most important factor among these factors. The organizational culture that is based on transparency will provide the information environment dynamism and it will also lead to the improvement of the quality of information disclosure by the business un...

This paper argues that substantive and sustainable population-wide improvements in physical activity can be achieved only through the large scale adoption and implementation of policies and practices that make being active the default choice and remaining inactive difficult. Meta-volition refers to the volition and collective agency of early adopter leaders who implement such changes in their o...

Enforcing complex policies that span organizational domains is an open challenge. Current work on SOA policy enforcement splits security in logical components that can be distributed across domains, but does not offer any concrete solution to integrate this security functionality so that it works across security services for organization-wide policies. In this paper, we propose xESB, an enhance...