This study examines the relationship between actors’ social position and the likelihood that they will initiate two different types of divergent organizational change in a field of activity, namely changes that diverge from the institutionalized model of organizations’ role division and changes that diverge from the institutionalized model of social groups’ role division. I explore this relatio...

Formal analyses of social action for Distributed A.I. (DAI) have focussed, almost exclusively, on scenarios in which participating agents have a joint intention to act. While such scenarios are significant, there are many examples of artificial and natural social systems in which joint intention not only does not occur, but is not even a practical possibility. This paper proposes that a deep th...

The Role of Educational Administrators in Creating a Moral Atmosphere and Social Support, and its Relation with Organizational Performance S. Dehghaan Marvasti To explore the role of educational administrators in creating a moral atmosphere and social support and its relation with organizational performance, a random sample of 160 teachers from two districts in Yazd was given a set of...

This study explores the process of organizational change by examining localized social learning in organizational subunits. Specifically, we examine participation in university technology transfer, a new organizational initiative, by tracking 1,780 faculty members, examining their backgrounds and work environments, and following their engagement with academic entrepreneurship. We find that indi...

Social-network-based information systems have become well known among a large audience, thanks to web-based services such as Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, and LinkedIn. The manifestation of relationships among friends and business acquaintances provides an easier means to render interpersonal relationships by making the connections involved more transparent and traceable. Social networks can r...

. Perceived organizational support has been raised as work backbone of employee in the organization and the psychological contracts are also a set of promises that top managers give to support their employees. Therefore, violation of this contract not only involves depriving organizational support, but also reduces the employee's belongings. The main purpose of this paper was to examine the imp...

organizational performance evaluation is a component of management control process involving complex relationships between variables at social, organizational and individual levels.

the aim of present study was to comparison men with social capital are so important for organizations and they are considered as rare assets. the significance of factors effecting social capital is increased day by day. organizational justice can be one of these factors. so, the aim of the current study was to investigate the effect of perceived organizational justice on the social capital leve...

In the era of New Economy, knowledge creation has been regarded as the main source of organization’s competitive advantage. Based on the assumption that knowledge is originally generated and constructed from organizational members, this paper aims to explore how knowledge is constructed and created in organizations with the existence of organizational structure and social structure. On the “har...