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Capability Evolution and a Replication Strategy: Stimulating Middle Management Knowledge Search Routines and Architecture Competences

Tippmann, Esther; Scott, Pamela Sharkey; Mangematin, Vincent - HAL - 2012

This qualitative study uncovers how organizations following a replication strategy, with its focus on efficiency and standardisation, can also achieve explorative knowledge search to propose relevant solutions to unusual problems. We undertook a detailed investigation of middle managers'...

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Capability Evolution and a Replication Strategy: Stimulating Middle Management Knowledge Search Routines and Architecture Competences

Tippmann, Esther; Scott, Pamela Sharkey; Mangematin, Vincent - HAL - 2012

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738823

Les middle-managers de la fonction RH: un rôle doublement stratégique

Torset, Christophe; Tixier, Julie - HAL - 2002

Cet article s'interroge sur le rôle des middle managers de la fonction ressources humaines dans le cadre de la croissance globale d'un groupe multinational. La situation particulière de ces acteurs les rend vecteurs de la stratégie organisationnelle et cristallise les interactions entre les...

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The impact of organizational context and competences on innovation ambidexterity

Brion, Sébastien; Mothe, Caroline; Sabatier, Mareva - HAL - 2010

Research into organization theory contains abundant evidence of the positive effects of ambidexterity on a firm …'s performance, and of the influence of organizational context on ambidexterity. The present research tests whether organizational … context affects innovation ambidexterity. Our results, based on a dataset of 108 large innovative firms, show that firms …

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Problem solving methods as Lessons Learned System instrumentation into a PLM tool

Bertin, Aurélie; Noyes, Daniel; Clermont, Philippe - HAL - 2012

Among the continuous improvement tools of the performance in enterprise, the experience feedback represents undoubtedly an effective lever of progress by offering important prospects for a progression in almost all the industrial sectors. However, several reserves to its use slow down the...

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ISO 14001 implementation: translation process and organizational change

Reverdy, Thomas - HAL - 2006

The purpose of this study is to find out how local translations of a generic management system reduce organizational uncertainties, produce technical and organizational knowledge, and introduce cooperative relations, cross-functional learning and problem identification and solving. The study...

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Valuing Knowledge Management Impact on Engineering Design Activities

Dudezert, Aurélie; Gardoni, Mickaël - HAL - 2005

Knowledge Management Systems (KMS) have been developed in Engineering Designactivities in order to improve the productivity of these activities. Nevertheless it is still verydifficult to identify the impact of such Systems on the Engineering Design Performance.In this paper our goal is to...

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On the existence and sustainability of organizational alternatives to the dominant PSF model: crisis and change in a democratic consulting firm

Gand, Sébastien; Noury, Lucie; Sardas, Jean-Claude - HAL - 2013

In this paper, we contribute to the study of the heterogeneity of professional service firms through an extreme case, by investigating the conditions of the existence and sustainability of democratic forms of organizing in a professional setting. To do so, we studied DemEx, a long-standing mid...

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The Diversity of Capitalism and Heterogeneity of Firms - A Case Study of Japan during the Lost Decade

Lechevalier, Sébastien - HAL - 2007

Most institutional theories of the diversity of capitalism (at least implicitly) assume the existence of a representative firm in each type of capitalism. Based on a case study of Japan during the Lost Decade (1992-2005), this paper aims at showing that this assumption introduces severe...

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So little time and so much to change: a structurationist case study on the limitations of rationalization.

Peigné, Paul - HAL - 2012

In all the theories pertaining to organizations, the concept of time, also termed temporality, is often approached as a simple implicit framework of action. The notion of movement or change can only therefore be appreciated by its variation and rarely as an intrinsic dimension able to influence...

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