A multi-agent testbed for experimenting with organizational structures is presented. The testbed is used to experiment with five organizational structures used in Tom Malone’s (1987) study of the efficiency and flexibility of organizational structures. The experiments replace the ordinal distinctions made by Malone of the performance of each structure with a ratio measurement of the differences.

Background: Health system is seeking to provide health services for people by creating the desirable culture and climate, in which, human resources are ready to provide the effective and high quality services. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between organizational culture and job satisfaction of midwives therapeutic, teaching and health centers of Karaj. Methods: in ...

one of the important problems concerning women in iranian organizations is the stereotype attitudes towards women inherited from the past. many of these negative attitudes have been made by men, and that’s why, women's efficiency and effectiveness in organizations seems low as compared to that of men. this study attempts to examine the popular clichés concerning women's organizational...

The purpose of this research is to classify the inter-organizational relationships in open innovation between pharmaceutical companies and to clarify quantitatively the relationship between each type and research efficiency. In terms of research methodology, a patent database of drug development was analysed using the technique of social network analysis. The study concludes that a significant ...

Exploiting direct transmissions between geographically close mobile users without passing through the base stations (BSs), device-to-device (D2D) communications contribute significant improvement to the spectral efficiency of cellular networks. In D2D assisted cellular networks, the social interaction of mobile users is an important property that will affect the practical performance and should...

Using a time-series data, the paper appraises allocative efficiency of the telecom sector in Pakistan through some of the macroeconomic and policy variables. Results of the study reveal that the openness of the telecom sector to foreign firms and the existing size of population have led to an improvement in efficiency of both the fixed and cellular networks. However, findings on the impact of r...

While normal distributions and related current quantitative methods are still relevant for some organizational research, the growing ubiquity of power laws signifies that Pareto rank/frequency distributions, fractals, and underlying scale-free theories are increasingly pervasive and valid characterizations of organizational dynamics. Where true, researchers ignoring power law effects risk drawi...

Computational models of cancer complement the biological study of tumor growth. However, existing modeling approaches can be both inefficient and inaccurate due to the difficulties of representing the complex interactions between cells and tissues. We present a three-dimensional multiscale agent-based model of tumor growth with angiogenesis. The model is designed to easily adapt to various canc...

organizational cynicism is one of the most important behavioral issues that influences the performance of employees and the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization. this article contains the original concepts of organizational cynicism and it's relation to the other organizational concepts. first, the concept of cynicism and its related psychological and islamic approaches are disc...