the aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the psychological empowerment factors (meaningfulness, competency, self-determination, impact and trust) and organizational entrepreneurship in staff of physical education general administration department of khorasan razavi. for this purpose, 61 staff members were selected as the sample of this study. the study was descriptive c...

Many organizations have recognized that knowledge is the most important resource in today’s economy. With regards to knowledge-based views of the firm, organizations are actively embracing knowledge management with the expectation of acquiring and maintaining high levels of organizational performance. The relationship between knowledge management (KM) and organizational performance has been the...

“Organizational ambidexterity” has become an emerging research trend in both the organizational management and knowledge management field (Gibson & Birkinshaw, 2004; He & Wong, 2004). The central theme on organizational ambidexterity is about organizational capability to simultaneously deal with paradoxical or conflicting activities such as organizational alignment and adaptation; evolutionary ...

Knowledge is the most important management elements in business administration besides factors of production such as labor and capital. Challenge faced by high-tech industry in the era of knowledge economy is how to grasp and use knowledge. Only knowledge creates innovative thoughts. Goodness and badness of organizational knowledge is often closely related to organizational learning. Organizati...

background: although many planners of professional continuing education programs believe that this type of education positively affects the nurses’ performance, the results obtained by conducted research do not confirm such a perspective. in fact, inadequate application of these trainings in clinical practice is among the most challenging areas in nursing practices. hence, this study was conduc...

Many people have social media connections with co-workers. An important question that arises is how such connections impact important organizational factors. This study begins to look at such impact by examining how a user's total number of co-worker social media connections and the percentage of total social media connections that are co-workers impacts perceptions of organizational support an...

The Adoption and Diffusion of Organizational Innovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and nonmanufacturing businesses in the United States during the 1990’s, I examine the incidence and intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments in organizational innovation. Past profits tend to be p...

this paper studies effective organizational factors in creating cynicism. at first, we studied the literature of organizational cynicism, dimensions and components of cynicism at different approaches. then among them six component include: perception of organizational support, perception of executives’ compensation, perception of organizational performance, perception of distributive justice an...

As an exploratory step toward integrating differing views in the field of top management succession, this study takes an open system’s perspective and examines the effect of top management succession on organizational performance, in particular decision-making accuracy, under conditions where various organizational and environmental factors can interact. Through a formal computer simulation mod...

Despite a sizable body of literature on virtual organization, little attention has been paid to defining organizational virtuality and identifying factors that influence degree of virtuality in organizations. Based on virtual organization literature and the knowledge-based view of the firm, we develop a working definition of organizational virtuality. We do this by conducting a review of existi...