Most organizations’ structures are top-down, especially those in Asia. Contrary to this inflexible organization setting, open business model has been widely discussed today with the hope to achieve innovation. How can highly centralized organizations innovate to harness collaborative intelligence? In this paper, we will introduce the case of the School of Management at National Central Universi...

Motivating Agents: How Much Does the Mission Matter? Economic theory predicts that agents will work harder if they believe in the “mission” of the organization. Well-identified estimates of exactly how much harder they will work have been elusive, however, because agents select into jobs. We conduct a real effort experiment with participants who work directly for organizations with clear missio...

the present paper deals with the role of played by knowledge management in organizations and its impact on their improved operations, including libraries. the km mission within an organization is to transform the tacit knowledge of employees into an important source for decision making as well as proactive documentation of explicit knowledge for achieving organizational goals. the closer man’s ...

In this paper we describe an algorithm that produces a post mission estimate of the spatial evolution of the Isurus AUV. To make this post processing possible, the navigation system records on the vehicle logging system all the navigation data received during the mission execution. The data comprise the depth of the vehicle, the outputs of the tilt sensors and digital compass, the angular veloc...

A mission statement is the most visible element of an organizational strategy; it ought to be effective in terms reflecting its purpose. Particularly, top global brands, corporations, and business schools are expected have modular statements that comply with definition ideal statement. To determine how closely they adhere components statement, this study compares actual organizations desired Th...

Flight and Maintenance Planning (FMP) of mission aircraft addresses the question of which available aircraft to fly and for how long, and which grounded aircraft to perform maintenance operations on, in a group of aircraft that comprise a unit. The objective is to achieve maximum fleet availability of the unit over a given planning horizon, while also satisfying certain flight and maintenance r...

Purpose. This study of budgeting practices and attitudes to budgeting in a local church uses Booth’s (1993) framework to consider the potential conflict between the “sacred” agenda of the church and the “secular” nature of accounting. Design/methodology/approach. Over a six month period, the author conducted a series of semi-structured interviews with key church leaders, and studied financial r...

Mission Statement The mission of the Association of Academic Women's Health Programs (AAWHP) is to improve the health of women through leadership in research, education clinical models, and community partnerships. This mission is carried out through networking, leadership and mentoring collaborative projects, lobbying and advocacy, political and social commentary, education of policy-makers, pa...

Organizations for humanitarian assistance, disaster response and military activities are characterized by their special role in society to resolve time-constrained and potentially lifethreatening situations. The tactical missions that these organizations conduct regularly are significantly dynamic in character, and sometimes impossible to fully comprehend and predict. In these situations, when ...