On a weighted sample of more than 1500 firms from the French manufacturing industries, we explore the relation between individual organizational practices dedicated to innovation and the output of the process. 16 different organizational practices are identified dealing with the constraints or objective applied to employees. The belonging to a national and foreign group is also considered. Cont...

The present study examines the effects of training and development on organizational innovation. We specifically suggest that the training and development investments of an organization affect its innovative performance by promoting various learning practices. We empirically tested our hypothesis by using time-lagged, multi-source data collected from 260 Korean companies that represent diverse ...

we typically think of acutely and chronically mentally ill patients as those who belong in psychiatric hospitals and the latter category of patients belonging in “regular” hospitals, but the intersection of physical and mental illness draws attention to important challenges for policy-makers and organizational leaders. this article illuminates some broad trends in the health status of people wi...

OBJECTIVE To develop an instrument to measure organizational attributes relevant for family practices using the perspectives of clinicians, nurses, and staff. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING Clinicians, nurses, and office staff (n=640) from 51 community family medicine practices. DESIGN A survey, designed to measure a practices' internal resources for change, for use in family medicine practices...

This paper presents communication needs, supporting structures and communication practices collected from global software development projects. The data was gathered by 32 interviews from seven global interorganizational projects. We identified four important communication needs: problem solving, informing and monitoring, relationship building, and decision-making and coordination. Structures s...

To better understand the pattern of language use and classroom interactions, this sequential mixed-methods study investigated the teachers’ use of self-repair strategies based on their level of reflection. To this end, 33 Iranian EFL teachers were selected from various institutions in Tehran. Data for the quantitative phase were collected from the reflectivity questionnaire developed by Akbari,...

A culture conducive to information security practice is extremely important for organizations since information has to be critical assets in modern enterprises. Thus for understanding and improving the organizational behavior with regard to information security, enterprises may look into organizational culture and examine how it affects the effectiveness of implementing ISM. This study aims ...

R esearchers have argued that human resources may be seen as a source of sustained competitive advantage for organizations (Barney, 1991, 1995; Becker & Gerhart, 1996). The underlying assumption is that human resources are unique to the extent that competitors cannot imitate them. This research has led to the identification of a number of human resource management practices that contribute to c...