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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide description and an analysis of two worlds colliding where real‐world roles or ideas play out in a virtual dimension. Inhabited by digital natives, the virtual world in a learning organization is a journey back to the future of microworlds...
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uses a cross‐sectoral case study approach to learning by focusing on the newly designed Advertising‐SCM (Ad‐SCM) simulation …, subsequently, student learning outcome assessment results were analyzed. Findings – The Ad‐SCM simulation game project strengthened …
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Decision‐makers in organizations often make what appear as being intuitively obviously and reasonable decisions, which often turn out to yield unintended outcomes. The cause of such ineffective decisions can be a combination of cognitive biases, poor mental models of complex systems, and...
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management understanding of the complexity of sustainability, its controversial nature; and how the latter relates to …/or complexity, are unaware of the important contribution of cybernetics, especially Ashby's work and the VSM's relevance to the …
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sustainability, complexity and learning perspective”. Design/methodology/approach – The methodology of the editorial is that of a …
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Purpose – The objective of this paper is to provide a deeper insight into the relationship of the issue “lean vs agile” in order to inform managers towards more coherent decisions especially in a dynamic, unpredictable, uncertain, non‐linear environment. Design/methodology/approach –...
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Purpose – In the stream of works studying complexity from an organizational viewpoint, literature is focused mainly on … important precondition for both adaptation and innovation in an age of complexity, the authors focus on creativity emergence …
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and concepts more appropriate to deal with complexity, i.e. to represent, induce and orient processes of chance, and … more appropriate language, cultural aspect of science of complexity, able to deal with processes of emergence. Findings … recognizing, inducing and managing complexity of processes and change. Originality/value – The paper presents a new way to …
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Purpose – This paper aims to analyse and evaluate the transfer process of codified knowledge (CK) performed under two different approaches: the “socio‐technical” and the “top‐down”. It is argued that the socio‐technical approach supports the transfer of CK better than the...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate and characterise the knowledge creation process in construction organisations and explore to what extent organisations facilitate the process. Design/methodology/approach – A case study approach is adopted using four construction...
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