Knowledge creation (KC) is an important issue in a knowledge society. Organizational change is required to facilitate KC which embraces knowledge access and selection, knowledge diffusion, knowledge application, and knowledge storage. In this paper, three momenta of organizational change are...

Purpose – The literature of organizational change hints that adaptability and inertia not only counterbalance but also reinforce each other, and the inertia-adaptability balance over time is nonlinear. The author aims to address this view more clearly by presenting a multi-stage conceptual...

Contemporary public and nonprofit management research has disproportionally emphasized the importance of intrinsic motivation (especially service motivation) but has given comparatively little attention to non-intrinsic motivation. According to self-determination theory (SDT), non-intrinsic...

<title>Abstract</title> Conventional wisdom of ‘sector matters’ suggests that those working in the government are more risk averse than those employed by business enterprises. However, whether public sector workers tend to be more risk averse than non-profit sector workers is unknown. Our paper examines...