This paper seeks to advance the diversity literature by investigating organizational performance consequences of age diversity. Drawing from social-identity and socialcategorization theory, we theoretically argue that, in age-diverse companies, age-based subgrouping processes occur, favouring a shared perception of a negative age-discrimination climate. This perceived negative age-discriminatio...

The data systems, policies and procedures, corporate culture, and public face of an agency or institution make up its organizational interface. This case study describes how user interfaces for the Bureau of Labor Statistics website evolved over a five year period along with the larger organizational interface and how this co-evolution has influenced the institution itself. Interviews with BLS ...

The data systems, policies and procedures, corporate culture, and public face of an agency or institution make up its organizational interface. This case study describes how user interfaces for the Bureau of Labor Statistics web site evolved over a 5-year period along with the larger organizational interface and how this co-evolution has influenced the institution itself. Interviews with BLS st...

This paper explores the nature and scope of integration of digital signatures with relational databases, such as integration is essential if Internet commerce is to succeed. While evaluating the pros and cons of the integration and the related technologies, this paper identifies challenges, both technological and organizational. The paper proposes that any implementation needs to consider the o...

Leaders of today's Catholic ministries are entrusted with an organizational responsibility to promote, sustain and remain true to Christ's healing ministry and the Catholic tradi- tion of caring for and nurturing people in need. Mission integration is a dynamic pro- cess that sets the context for the ministry of service, embedding mission into organizational practices, policies, structures and ...

This work was supported in part by the center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems at Carnegie Mellon University (http://www.casos.ece.cmu.edu ), the National Science Foundation Grant No. ITR/IM IIS-0081219 and an NSF Dissertation Grant on Organizational Isomorphism. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the author and should not be interpr...

The aim of the article is to evaluate the influence of relational capital management on organizational performance. Data was collected from SME’s based in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province through questionnaires. Data Collected was subjected to analysis using SPSS. Correlation and Regression analysis was utilized to test the hypothesis. The results indicated a significant influence of relational capi...

End-user driven technologies, such as social media, have dramatically changed organizations’ innovation processes. In these new contexts, organizational decision makers have to contend with a de facto adoption of new technologies that they have yet to understand fully. In order to contribute to the understanding of these new contexts and their implications for organizations and their decision m...