We examine how and why elements of organizational design depend on one another. An agent-based simulation allows us to model three design elements and two contextual variables that have rarely been analyzed jointly: a vertical hierarchy that reviews proposals from subordinates, an incentive system that rewards subordinates for departmental or firm-wide performance, the decomposition of an organ...

The nature of services in institutions of higher learning requires that all stakeholders play positive roles in the sustainability of the institution’s survival and effectiveness in giving quality teaching, research and learning. Structure and processes are core requirements for understanding organizational effectiveness. The actual scenario in the field, however, raises concerns as to whether ...

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) views Health Information Technology (HIT) as an essential organizational prerequisite for the delivery of safe, reliable, and cost-effective health services. However, HIT presents the proverbial double-edged sword in generating solutions to improve system performance while facilitating the genesis of novel iatrogenic problems. Incongruent organizational processes...

introduction: netiquette is network etiquette or the etiquette of cyberspace. recognizing organizational culture and its relationship with the netiquette offers strategies applied in order to communication development and creating learning organizations through the internet for senior management. the purpose of this study has been relationship between organizational culture and netiquette among...

Growth has been described as the essence of entrepreneurship. Organizational ecologists theorize an inevitable progression from growth through maturity, revival, and eventually decline. During the organizational life cycle entrepreneurs choose between growth, stability, or retrenchment strategies to overcome deteriorating trends in performance. Using survey data, this study tests a contingency ...

How visions, core to visionary leadership, impact organizational performance is poorly understood. Most research into vision-based leadership has not taken into account the quality of the vision. Based on the literature, a research model is proposed to guide future investigations into the link between vision and organizational performance. This generic model is expressed both graphically and as...

Within any organization (e.g. a hospital or clinic) the perception of the way things operate may vary dramatically as a function of one's location in the organizational hierarchy as well as one's professional discipline. Interorganizational variability depends on organizational coherence, safety, and stability. In this four-nation (Canada, Ireland, Australia, and Korea) qualitative study of 42 ...