In the era of New Economy, knowledge creation has been regarded as the main source of organization’s competitive advantage. Based on the assumption that knowledge is originally generated and constructed from organizational members, this paper aims to explore how knowledge is constructed and created in organizations with the existence of organizational structure and social structure. On the “har...

today, many organizations plan to implement and exploit erp system due to its numerous benefits. despite these advantages, many adopting organizations have failed to achieve their intended goals through utilizing erp system. among other factors, organizational characteristics have been proposed as one of the effective factors which can influence erp success in both implementation and post-imple...

It is a common observation in anthropology that larger societies tend to be more complex than smaller ones, and both size and complexity are normally considered to be major axes of variability in social evolution. Indeed, various measures of social-system size and organizational complexity are highly correlated Naroll (1956), for example, reports strong positive relationships between the popula...

Standard economic theories of the firm (and other organizations) stress profit maximization as the foundation for derivation of predictable behavior. Yet statistical and case-study evidence continues to accumulate that real firms do not act as required by the neoclassical framework. Instead of being represented by ever more elaborate maximization models, the firm can be modeled simply as a netw...

We examine how a firm’s formal organizational structure affects its ability to cope with interdependent decisions. An agent-based simulation, in which firms struggle to discover good sets of decisions, allows us to examine four coordinating mechanisms that have rarely been analyzed jointly: the grouping of related decisions under a single subordinate, a vertical hierarchy that reviews proposals...

Gray marketing, the selling of branded goods outside of manufacturer-authorized channels, is a factor in many industries. Using a model of differentiated Cournot competition, we analyze how gray markets affect the strategy used to enter low-priced foreign markets. In particular, we examine how much autonomy a firm should give its foreign subsidiary. When production in the foreign country is det...

The effect of organizational communication structure on performance is studied using a project selection framework in which heterogeneous, rational agents can reject or accept projects. A hierarchy performs better than a polyarchy in tough environments, whereas the reverse holds in friendly environments. Hierarchies can be too strict from a social welfare point of view. Indeed, if the value of ...

leadership style and organizational climate are considered as a substructure framework in successful performance of knowledge management. the purpose of this research is investigating both the effect of leadership style and organizational climate on knowledge management and the moderate role of organization structure and social interaction in affecting leadership style and organizational climat...

In this paper we test the hypothesis that organizational structure, and the history of that structure, influences mutual workload awareness. More specifically, we explored the congruence of workload awareness among a number of decision makers acting in two organizational structures (functional vs. divisional) with different histories (divisional followed by functional vs. functional followed by...