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Hybrid Strategy and Firm Performance: The Moderating Role of Individual and Technological Ambidexterity

Mahr, Ferdinand - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

structures and HRM practices (individual ambidexterity) and information and communication technologies (technological … ambidexterity) are assessed. Further, a hybrid strategy’s performance impact is defined in two distinct ways and measured relative … in the presence of organizational ambidexterity, but negatively impacts firm performance in the absence of organizational …

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Complementarities between IT and Organizational Structure: The Role of Corporate Exploration and Exploitation

Mahr, Ferdinand; Kretschmer, Tobias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The decentralization of organizational decision authority has been shown to be complementary to Information Technology (IT) in prior research. We draw from the information processing view of organizations, the IT and de/centralization debate, and organizational learning theory to argue that IT...

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The Technological Origins of the High School Movement

Kim, Se-Um - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper argues that the emergence of knowledge hierarchies in the modern U.S. firms since the late 19th century, expedited by huge progress in communication technology, played a significant role in the expansion of mass secondary education called the high school movement in the U.S. in the...

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Strategy Formulation Approach, Industry Factors, Competition and the Notion of Learning Organization: Evidences from KAO Corporation.

Dissanayake, D.M.N.S.W. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

Particularly this report defines the strategic aspects of the KAO Corporation in Japan. The KAO Corporation is one of the leading consumer product providers in the Japanese market. Though the company exists in the FMCG industry, it can be stated that the company has attained a competitive...

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A New Framework for Learning Approaches toward Social Evolution of Organizations

Kashefi, Mohammad Ali; Sanjaghi, Mohammad Ebrahim - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This paper addresses a gap in the literature concerning suitability of organizational learning approaches in facing social responsibility challenges, and proposes a developed framework that could proactively bridge this gap. A new framework is designed in order to gain insight on the...

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Corporate Learning Ability

Batorski, Jarema - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001

The article presents certain ways of understanding a learning organization and its characteristic features. It also contains the results of a study of twenty-seven Polish enterprises facilitating diagnosis of their learning ability. It has been shown that learning ability is connected with the...

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Inventory Signals

Lai, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

How does operational competence translate into market value, when firms cannot credibly communicate their competence to the market? I consider the example of inventory and fill rates. When the market sees a high-inventory firm, it cannot tell whether the inventory is due to incompetence or a...

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Inventory and the Stock Market

Lai, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

How does the stock market affect inventory decisions? The efficient markets view is that low stock price means poor fundamentals, a higher cost of capital, and lower inventory. Normatively, firms should obtain their cost of capital from an efficient markets model of stock prices. My study is...

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Bullwhip in a Spanish Shop

Lai, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

Sebastian de la Fuente is the sixth largest supermarket chain in the Basque region of Spain. It has a novel dataset of 108,605 observations on 3,745 SKUs, collected for almost 2 1/2 years. I find the bullwhip effect in the data: at least 80% of the SKUs have a bigger variance in supplies than...

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Executive Quirks in Operational Decisions

Lai, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

We ask if corporate executives have fixed effects (quirks) that explain perational decisions made in firms, independent of firm effects. We replicate the approach in Bertrand et al. (2003), solving the empirical challenge of distinguishing firm and executive effects by constructing a dataset of...

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