We examine blockchain technologies, especially smart contracts, as a platform for decentralized applications. By providing a basis for consensus, blockchain promises to upend business models that presuppose a central authority. However, blockchain suffers from major shortcomings arising from an over-regimented way of organizing computation that limits its prospects. We propose a sociotechnical,...

British economic decline in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been attributed to the growing inability of British industries to compete technologically and organizationally with their American and German competitors. This paper argues that British firms' growth and adaptability were hampered by organizational weakness and that the major cause of Britain's managerial problems...

This study investigates the relational dimensions that shape clinicians' intentionality and motivation for knowledge-sharing. Qualitative data was collected from 40 clinicians in two hospitals, models theory used to investigate impact of different (communal-sharing, authority-ranking, equality-matching market-pricing) on engage knowledge learning. While communal-sharing expert-based authority–r...

The board gender diversity–organizational performance relationship has been criticized for the absence of tests underlying mechanisms this relationship. This study aims to empirically investigate whether task-related conflict – one prime theorized diversity indeed mediates Consistent with literature, we theorize how affects conflict, and in turn organizational performance. We test our hypothese...

PURPOSE Social support can positively influence patients' health outcomes through a number of mechanisms, such as increases in patients' adherence to medication. Although there have been studies on the influence of social support on medication adherence, these studies were conducted in Western settings, not in Asian settings where cultural and religious orientations may be different. The object...

We investigate how managers trade off the benefits of delegating authority to their employees with risk loss control. Organizational economics theory identifies specific knowledge subordinates and monitoring possibilities for manager as determinants delegation. Social learning predicts that when unit are themselves granted more authority, they will pass this on employees. This cascading reduces...

Purpose Despite a common conceptual root, research applying legitimacy theory addresses any number of more or less distinct behaviours, attitudes, and processes. Although this variety in approaches has complicated theoretical development, we argue that it is critical to addressing the breadth construct. To address state affairs, offer Concentric Diagram Legitimacy as an organizing tool for lite...