BACKGROUND Case managers have been introduced in Dutch primary palliative care; these are nurses with expertise in palliative care who offer support to patients and informal carers in addition to the care provided by the general practitioner and home care nurses. This study aims to describe support and investigate what characteristics of patients and the organizational setting are related to th...

background organizational entrepreneurship focuses on proactive actions, which may lead to the new productions, new services and/or new processes. implementation of organizational entrepreneurship plans has many benefits including organizational cost reduction and the increase of organizational capital assets. objectives this study aimed to investigate the organizational entrepreneurship status...

Although there has been increasing interest in dark personality traits in the organizational sciences, these characteristics remain relatively understudied and somewhat misunderstood. The present manuscript aims to clarify some of the issues surrounding dark personality traits by discussing the history of dark personality traits, how they relate to normal personality traits, their relative impo...

This paper reports the progress of an attempt to examine how and why complex integrated IT infrastructures, such as ERP systems, impact firm performance. Based on emerging literature on agility, IT management and organizational theories, a conceptual model that describes a nomological network linking IT infrastructure characteristics, organizational culture, agility and firm performance is pres...

The main purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between organizational trust and organizational justice components and their role on job involvement. The method of this research is descriptive and co-relational, and the statistical sample contains 350 employees and managers of education in Meybod and Ardakan (Yazd). Data collected by Moorman's (1999) organizational justice questio...

This study examines the factors that influence employees’ adoption and use of e-learning systems and tests the applicability of the technology acceptance model (TAM) in the organizational context. We examined the relationship of employees’ perceptions of their behavioral intention to use e-learning systems in terms of four determinants (individual, organizational, task characteristics, and subj...

How visions, core to visionary leadership, impact organizational performance is poorly understood. Most research into vision-based leadership has not taken into account the quality of the vision. Based on the literature, a research model is proposed to guide future investigations into the link between vision and organizational performance. This generic model is expressed both graphically and as...

Background In the past decades, maturity models have become important tools to visualize progress in adopting processes and standards and to benchmark companies in their industry (Becker et al. 2009). Two of the best known and oldest maturity frameworks are the Capability Maturity Model (CMM; Paulk et al. 1993; Watts 1987) and its follow-up, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMi; CMMI Pro...

BACKGROUND Despite three decades of empirical investigation into research utilization and a renewed emphasis on evidence-based medicine and evidence-based practice in the past decade, understanding of factors influencing research uptake in nursing remains limited. There is, however, increased awareness that organizational influences are important. OBJECTIVES To develop and test a theoretical ...