Organizational theory has construed complexity as an objective characteristic of either the structure or the behaviour of an organization. We argue that to further our understanding it should be understood in terms of human cognition of a structure or behavior. This cognitive twist is...

In this paper we want to analyze the internal divisional structure within an organi-zation in the framework of incomplete contract theory. We use the framework of Aghionand Tirole (1997) and define the managerial control structure as sequence of search.A key feature of this paper which...

We develop and subsequently test a model detailing how knowledge technologies, embodied in intra-organizational information systems (IS), provide opportunities that influence individual-level human motivations to engage in knowledge exchange processes, thereby influencing organizational...

This paper studies how organizations manage the social comparisons that arise when their employees' pay and tasks, and hence their status vis-à-vis peers, differ. We show that under a "pay transparency policy", the organization may compress pay and distort the employees' tasks to minimize...

Entrepreneurial work environment equates to empowerment. The study aimed to examine the effect of entrepreneurial work environment on organizational citizenship behaviour. Related literature and studies were reviewed to provide an in-depth concept. It employed the assessment and correlational...

Despite the acknowledged importance of perceived organizational support (POS), organizational trust (OT), and affective commitment (AC) for favorable organizational outcomes, relatively little is known about the processes that underlie these various associations, especially in Islamic, Arabian...

Corporate scandals have become apparent. One of the causes is a high performance goal. The difficult but achievable goals have been considered useful in achieving high performance. However, high goals also have the negative effect of causing employees to behave unethically. In this study, we...

The workplace is complex, comprising many entities (abstract and tangible) - affective states, attitudes, and perceptions, but also workers and managers themselves and their behaviors. Understanding the link between them is vital for organizational prosperity. In the current paper, the...

In modern organizations, in which changes are happening faster and more unpredictably, employees are gaining a more complex role and increasing importance. New approaches to employee insight, based on the heavy work investment concept (HWI), bring together different theoretical and practical...

I study organizations in which agents are connected through a fixed, un-directed, and unweighted network, and work collectively to produce a team output. Besides choosing own effort that contributes directly to the team output, agents can also exert helping effort to their network neighbors so...