This paper examines the extent to which various forms of social capital impact community-level organizational vitality. My hypothesis is that, controlling for other relevant social, political and economic factors, communities with higher levels of social capital should experience more robust organizational and financial growth, and less failure, in their for-profit and nonprofit sectors. I test...

This study provides a status report on innovation literature across sectors, with an emphasis on organizational survival. The literature is found to lack systematization of research studies or cumulative construction of knowledge about the relationship(s) between innovations and the survival or demise of organizations. In addition to research synthesis at various levels of analysis, spanning bo...

In this paper, a multistate Bayesian Network (BN) is proposed to model and evaluate the functional performance of safety barriers in Oil Gas plants. The nodes BN represent Health States (HSs) corresponding conditional Failure Probability (FP) values are assigned. HSs assessed on basis specific Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) related barrier characteristics (i.e., technical, procedural or orga...

Root cause failure analysis is a process for identifying the true root cause of a particular failure and using that information to set a course for corrective/preventive action. From a technical standpoint, it is usually a multidisciplinary problem, typically focused on the traditional engineering fields such as chemistry, physics, materials, statics, dynamics, fluids, etc. However, it seems th...

INTRODUCTION Failure to comply with work ethics by employees working in Health Information Technology (HIT) Departments and their negative attitudes about organizational justice may have an adverse impact on patient satisfaction, quality of care, collecting health statistics, reimbursement, and management and planning at all levels of health care; it can also lead to unbearable damages to the h...

BACKGROUND The failure rates for implementing complex innovations in healthcare organizations are high. Estimates range from 30% to 90% depending on the scope of the organizational change involved, the definition of failure, and the criteria to judge it. The innovation implementation framework offers a promising approach to examine the organizational factors that determine effective implementat...

However, despite the significant growth of the BPR concept, not all organisations embarking on BPR projects achieve their intended result. Hammer and Champy (1993) estimate that as many as 70 percent do not achieve the dramatic results they seek. Having BPR repeatedly at the top of the list of management issues in annual surveys of critical information systems reflects executives' failure to ei...

organizational silence is defined as the lack of effective interactions among staff and it standsopposite to the concept of organizational voice. in the present research, the purpose is to measure thesilence behavior among the research institute of petroleum industry (ripi) staff before and after theimplementation of a comprehensive suggestion system. a suggestion system is an internal structur...

Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) can generate substantial gains and losses, exhausting firm resources straining a firm’s ability to sustain its activities. We develop test resource exhaustion theory of failure, conceptualizing conditions under which EO increases the risk failure by generating unsustainable amounts entrepreneurial entropy. Using panel data on 804 large U.S. high-technology firms...