To understand how an organisational or societal structure relates to dynamics is an interesting fundamental challenge in the area of organisational and social modelling. Specifications of organisational structure usually have a diagrammatic form that abstracts from more detailed dynamics. Dynamic properties of agent systems, on the other hand, are often specified in the form of a set of logical...

The growth in importance of communities within organisational settings is a sign of a change in paradigm. When management and organisational theory introduce the critical notion of communities , in parallel to the concepts of collaborative work and of knowledge sharing, there is an internal revolution going on. Brown & Duguid, 1991) has a critical role to play in today's development of manageme...

Public organisations provide training to enhance their employee’s capabilities better services. use different learning methods skills and service offering. Therefore, public are considering programmes such as classroom training, coaching, mentoring etc. For the be effective in providing programs employees, there is a need have an approach support these efforts. This study suggests that Organisa...

BACKGROUND Dying at home is the preference of many patients with life-limiting illness. This is often not achieved and a key factor is the availability of willing and able family carers. AIM To elicit family carers' views about the community support that made death at home possible. DESIGN AND SETTING Qualitative study in East Devon, North Lancashire, and Cumbria. METHOD Participants were...

One of the most challenging issues in current e-Government initiatives is the seamless exchange of information and the efficient collaboration between public administrations, companies and the private sector. Either from an intraor cross-organisational point of view spanning processes across multiple authorities leads to a collaboration of autonomous units under consideration of law and regulat...

It is often mentioned that organisational aspects should be incorporated in SDI assessments, yet an assessment instrument is still lacking. In this chapter an approach for assessing organisational aspects of a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) will be developed and used on literature covering management aspects of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and SDIs. Organisational aspects will be a...

‘whistleblowing’ has come to increased prominence in many health systems as a means of identifying and addressing quality and safety issues. but whistleblowing – and the reactions to it – have many complex and ambiguous aspects that need to be considered as part of the broader (organisational) cultural dynamics of healthcare institutions.