Mental models tend to converge within organizations and this hinders cooperation across organizations. For a business ecosystem to be effective, it is therefore crucial to build shared cognition between the partnering organizations. Collective sensemaking has been suggested to play an important role in the forming of shared cognition, but how does collective sensemaking in business ecosystems c...

strategic human resource management implications in different part of the worlds have been investigated in different research papers. the depth of implementation of shrm, results in the productivity of the organizations. the current paper is a conceptual overview on the shrm implementation in iran. the circumstances and the elements that contribute to the shrm implementation in this country nee...

Purpose: Managers of healthcare organizations must be much more dynamic and agile to survive in a competitive environment. Administrators, managers, leaders meet both patients’ staff’s needs, expectations, requests at the maximum level order create organizational agility. What counts among these responsibilities is use operational capabilities highest being organizationally agile? In this conte...

PROLOGUE With many of the uncertainties facing the distribution and provision of pharmacy and other health care services, future managers must understand the importance of conducting the strategic planning process. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of strategic planning and the steps of the strategic planning process for organizations in the pharmaceutical distribution syste...

Given that decision makers continue to face dilemmas on whether to persist or desist with troubled projects, it is important for senior managers to support the assessment of decision dilemmas faced by project managers. By drawing on two case studies that exhibit project escalation situation, decision-makers in both cases were interviewed and important documents reviewed, the paper has identifie...

today, the benefits of organizations cannot be achieved by one organization alone, because the organizations are trying to make their business focus on core competence, and they outsourcing other activities to other organizations. iranian organizations have long spoken of it outsourcing is a form of serious issues; so managers need to increase their knowledge and techniques in the field of it o...

One of the major structural changes facing organizations today involves moving from traditional hierarchical work paradigms, beyond teams, to the “virtual” organization. In the virtual organization, “work” is no longer the place you go. It is, rather, “what you do.” These new work paradigms are simultaneously driving new paradigms for the delivery of education. Managers with more flexibility in...

Mental models tend to converge within organizations and this hinders cooperation across organizations. For a business ecosystem to be effective, it is therefore crucial to build shared cognition between the partnering organizations. Collective sensemaking has been suggested to play an important role in the forming of shared cognition, but how does collective sensemaking in business ecosystems c...