A person’s identity is the way she is perceived by herself (personal identity) and by others (social identity). For example, “I am a believer in doctrine x”, “I am racially/morally superior”, “I will be hailed as a martyr.” Forms of identity such as these can be valued per se. In their seminal work on the subject, Akerlof and Kranton (2000, 2010) develop a framework for analyzing the role of id...

Leaders play crucial roles in their enterprises. Most modern organizations today, such as corporations and government departments, have no leaders. About 80% of all top structures, are run by inertia leaderless organizations. These pretense-pseudo structures filled roles, CEO, Department Head/Secretary, EVP, VP, others, but this non-accountable system mostly harms than benefits the organization...

Knowledge-based organizations base their competitiveness on knowledge and specific knowledge-related capabilities. The nature of knowledge is an important determinant enhancing understanding of firm behaviour and related organizing. In knowledge-based view of the firm trust is implicit. In this paper the role and nature of trust in knowledge-based organization is explored. Knowledge-based view ...

the current world is the era of wisdom and knowledge. endowments, natural and tangible assets are not the key factor for success of communities and organizations; instead, management of intangible assets in this turbulent and challenging environment for the organizations are the key success factor for them. the organizations which are able to recognize these assets and manage them properly woul...

this commentary reviews a recent piece by burton and rycroft-malone on the use of resource based view (rbv) in healthcare organizations. it first outlines the core content of their piece. it then discusses their attempts to extend rbv to the analysis of large scale quality improvement efforts in healthcare. some critique is elaborated. the broader question of why rbv seems to be migrating into ...