We present a conceptual framework for agent societies that incorporates the specification of global organizational characteristics with individual aims and capabilities. The framework consists of three interrelated models each describing different aspects of the society. The organizational model describes agent societies in terms of roles, constraints and interactions rules. The social model po...

Research agendas in different disciplines have addressed ways in which groups adapt to their environments, coordinate interactions, and translate such activities into practices which can be shared by other groups.This paper incorporates research on digital environments from a number of disciplinary perspectives, and presents an extended analogy: documentary/digital genres are like genes, and th...

This paper examines coworker networks in the American, Chinese, German, and Spanish divisions of a global retail bank. Because the bank has standardized structure and policies across countries, it is possible to examine how norms rooted in national culture impact on various features of informal ties. We propose that cultures vary in the models on which coworker interaction norms are based, with...

introduction: organizational justice is a variable that predicts many organizational variables. one of these variables that have an important role in many organizations today is organizational citizenship behavior. so this study aimed to study the relationship between organizational justice and organizational citizenship behavior among medical record staff in selected hospitals of isfahan in 20...

Process compliance deals with the ability of a company to ensure that its business processes comply with domain-specific regulations and rules. So far, compliance issues have been mainly addressed for intra-organizational business processes, whereas there exists only little work dealing with compliance in the context of cross-organizational processes that involve multiple business partners. As ...

In the context of globalization, technological advances, and the development of the knowledge economy, organizations must innovate to remain competitive. Recently, the call for innovation in public and nonprofit sector organizations has increased. These organizations, which rely on tax exemption, state allocations, or charitable contributions, must innovate for practical and symbolic reasons. W...