Organizational design is a critical facilitator of strategic information age initiatives. Yet traditional IT structures are misaligned with the information age because they cannot cope with continual change and the rapid horizontal introduction and utilization of gregarious information technologies. An organizational structure that combines the ideas of minibusinesses and the internal marketpla...

This contribution provides an overview of our work on modelling biological processes focussing on the example of programmed cell death, also called apoptosis. Apoptosis is a molecular programme present in all cells of multi-cellular organisms. It is crucial during development and for cell homoeostasis in the adult. Misregulation is implicated in severe diseases. We review an ordinary differenti...

Retrial phenomenon naturally arises in various systems such as call centers, cellular networks and random access protocols in local area networks. This paper gives a comprehensive survey on theory and applications of retrial queues in these systems. We investigate the state of the art of the theoretical researches including exact solutions, stability, asymptotic analyses and multidimensional mo...

Basalt continuous fibers are regarded as an inert and naturally occurring material that is produced from basalt rock by using single component raw material and drawing and winding fibers from the melt. Basalt based materials are environmentally friendly and nonhazardous. Basalt FRP (BFRP) composites as a reinforcement not only display a higher strength and modulus, but also a similar cost, and ...

CONTEXT Management of health care organizations based on employee's mutual trust will increase the improvement in functions and tasks. AIMS The present study was performed to investigate the relationship between organizational trust and the nurse administrators' productivity in educational health centers of in Health-Education Centers of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences. SETTINGS AND ...

Organizational culture gives identity to an organization. Notwithstanding the individuality of the staff members, their actions are collectively bound by the organizational culture. A review of the literature in this topic reveals that despite a number of organizational culture models have been developed, these are mainly for generic business settings and there has yet one developed for constru...

This paper attempts to examine the effects of virtual team dimensions on social identities of its members. A review of the literature shows that the geographically dispersed, culturally diverse as well as temporary dimensions of virtual teams do not match with their stability as members have different ethnic, social, or cultural backgrounds. Sources like culture, place, and time seem to continu...

This research studies information technology (IT) business value by examining complementarity effects between organizational culture and dynamic IT capability on firm performance. Using the Competing Values Framework, we study the external/internal focus and flexibility/stability dimensions of organizational culture. Here dynamic IT capability refers to the ability to integrate, build, and reco...

This study aimed to investigate the different dimensions of well-being (namely, work engagement, job satisfaction, and psychological stress) and possible predictors such as personality and perceived organizational support. A cross-sectional survey design was used, with a sample of 490 ambulance personnel in the United Kingdom. Significant correlations were found between the dimensions of job sa...