In the supply of mental health services to communities, data and information are managed not only by clinical organizations, but also by welfare state agencies and charities. The aim of this study is to use methods of analysis from actor network theory to identify organizational interventions necessary for the development of an information infrastructure for inter-organizational mental health s...

Policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. It stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. By itself, however, policy...

This paper develops a critical systems approach to organizational policy formulation and in so doing, contributes to the literature on critical systems thinking (CST). For, whilst there is, in the literature on systems theory and practice, much written on the subject of strategy in organizations, there is very little on organizational policy and nothing from within the critical systems paradigm...

The objective of this study was to examine how different ways of describing a hypothetical tobacco-free campus policy would impact college students' perceived level of support from the college. In the spring of 2016, we randomized 1885 undergraduate students in a required course to three message conditions in an online survey: control (no message), wellness (emphasizing promoting health and qui...

This study provides empirical evidence of the implementation outcomes of decentralization and education reform policies conducted in Argentina during the 1990s. The study examines how the reform was adopted at the provincial level, to what extent policy implementation matches national official mandates, and what role organizational factors play in the processes of policy implementation and outc...

one of the organizations’ concerns is their awareness about the degree of readiness for implementing social intranet. in response to this problem, a 48 item questionnaire was developed. fars regional electric company consisting of 820 human resources was selected as statistical population. by systematic random method, 262 personnel were determined as sample and the developed questionnaire were ...

The popularity, and subsequent ambiguity, in the use of the term "empowerment" has created an even greater need for reassessment in the applied context than in the theory and research literatures. This paper outlines some of the areas of community, organizational, and societal level social intervention and policy ostensibly based on the concept of empowerment. These include neighborhood volunta...

This paper presents the significances, challenges, issues, background of the problem, recommendations for future research prioritization and direction in ICT policy analysis and management. Unfortunately, the topic has received little attention especially among academicians, despite its important roles in ICT governance. The paper provides a framework for future researches in ICT policy analysi...

Professional and academic literature indicates that organizational stakeholders may hold different perceptions of security rules and policies. This discrepancy of perceptions may be rooted into a conflict between the compliance of stakeholders to organizational norms on the one hand, and security rules on the other. The paper argues that a mismatched understanding of security policy can have a ...