This study explores one of the contributors to group composition—the basis on which people choose others with whom they want to work. We use a combined model to explore individual attributes, relational attributes, and previous structural ties as determinants of work partner choice. Four years of data from participants in 33 small project groups were collected, some of which reflects individual...

All sociological/anthropological research (network or otherwise) in organizations (particularly corporations) is complicated by the need to obtain consent not only from the potential respondent but from the organization itself. Whereas in ordinary research there are essentially two parties that must come to agreement – the researcher and the respondent – in the organizational research there are...

This paper explains the concept of corporate social responsibility and examines the use of corporate social responsibility in organizational change management. The concept of CSR is well researched but implementation of CSR is not well researched. Here we examine the role of ICT and how it affects CSR. In this paper we see how ICT and CSR facilitate the implementation of change in organization ...

The introduction of IT-enabled collaborative tools such as Enterprise Social Media (ESM) has brought new forms of organizational collaboration to the forefront. We introduce social fabric as a theoretical frame to reveal how ESM can become part-andparcel of the social environment in which organizational members interact and collaborate. Drawing on Bruno Latour’s cartography of controversies, we...

Interorganizational networks are increasingly the subject of both theoretical and empirical research in sociology, economics, organizational behavior, and public and business management. While the most common network concepts and studies have focused on multi-organizational forms of production, “network” has also emerged as a way to describe how organizations share and integrate knowledge and i...

Despite initial technical barriers having been overcome, organizational wide component reuse has not enjoyed universal acceptance. Research has identified social and organizational factors as probable causes. This paper describes the Social Factors for Reuse Model (SFR Model), a predictive capability model based on Keidel’s triadic model of the organization. It determines an organization’s read...

Assessing an individual's ability to perform effectively, efficiently performing social skills, and social roles in order to enhance the feeling of security as a matter of empowering quality of life can lead to the necessary correlation between social health and a feeling of Security. The purpose of this study is to investigate the significant structural relationship of variables at the level o...

      Social capital results from shaping and establishment of values, norms, traditions, conventions and rules in self realization manner and in the context of social interactions and it produces hypothesis  in different fields such as empathy, cooperation, humanism, loyalty and conscience in  people’s social lives. The relationship between social capital and citizenship behavior is explored i...

BACKGROUND Organizational factors impact the delivery of mental health services in community settings. Mixed-methods analytic approaches have been recommended, though little research within implementation science has explicitly compared inductive and deductive perspectives to understand their relative value in understanding the same constructs. The purpose of our study is to use two different p...

Within any organization (e.g. a hospital or clinic) the perception of the way things operate may vary dramatically as a function of one's location in the organizational hierarchy as well as one's professional discipline. Interorganizational variability depends on organizational coherence, safety, and stability. In this four-nation (Canada, Ireland, Australia, and Korea) qualitative study of 42 ...