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Confidence and the Erosion of Confidence: Economic Functions and Effects

Sell, Friedrich L. - 2004

Trust or likewise "confidence" (the term preferred in this paper) are notions which have received considerable attention by economists in the last 8-10 years. In this contribution, much emphasis is put on the understanding what we really mean by "confidence", what the differences between...

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Social Evolution, Corporate Culture, and Exploitation

Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2002

It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...

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A corporation's culture as an impetus for spinoffs and a driving force of industry evolution

Cordes, Christian; Richerson, Peter J.; Schwesinger, Georg - 2011

In infant industries, a great share of new market opportunities is depleted by firms that spinoff from incumbents. A model emphasizing the relation between incumbents' evolving corporate cultures and the generation of spinoffs explains this regularity in industry evolution. Organizations reach a...

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Organizational culture as the glue between people and organization: A competence-based view on learning and competence building

Freiling, Jörg; Fichtner, Hanno - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 24 (2010) 2, pp. 152-172

Fördert Unternehmenskultur die Entwicklung organisationaler Kompetenzen? Dieser Beitrag bejaht die Frage mit Verweis … auf die lernförderliche Wirkung von Unternehmenskultur. Die Unternehmenskultur stellt ein Bindeglied zwischen der … personellen und organisationalen Ebene dar. Um die Wirkungsbeziehungen zwischen Unternehmenskultur und Kompetenzentwicklung zu …

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Organizational culture of participation: Development and validation of a measure

Martins, Erko; Pundt, Alexander; Horsmann, Claes S.; … - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung (ZfP) 22 (2008) 2, pp. 195-215

This article specifies the concept of 'Organizational Culture of Participation' (OCP) as that part of an organizational culture which is linked to employee participation. Three OCP-types are distinguished by the way participation is promoted and supported in an organizational culture: (1) leader...

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The business firm: the bureaucracy and the clan

Silos, Leonardo R. - 1993

This paper establishes a parallel between Max Weber's bureaucratic and traditional forms of domination, on the one hand, and the distinction between Western and Japanese management, on the other. Just as bureaucracy, so Western management theory and practice have been fundamentally guided by...

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Organizational identities and institutions: Dynamics of the organizational core as a question of path dependence

Kirchner, Stefan - 2010

Organizational identity is a mechanism that mediates between external pressures and internal demands on continuity. The concept of organizational identity is considered to be central to solving the research problem addressed of combining the effects of an institutional environment with the...

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In search for the not-invented-here syndrome: The role of knowledge sources and firm success

Hussinger, Katrin; Wastyn, Annelies - 2011

The not-invented-here (NIH) syndrome refers to internal resistance in a company against externally developed knowledge. In this paper, we argue that the occurrence of the NIH syndrome depends on the source of external knowledge and the success of the firm that aims at adapting external...

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Business perception of contextual changes: sources and impediments to organizational learning

Berthoin Antal, Ariane; Dierkes, Meinolf; Hähner, Katrin - 1997

1950-1989, beeinflußt wurde. Durch ihre Auswirkung auf die Perzeption legt die Unternehmenskultur auch im wesentlichen die …

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Women in management as change agents

Berthoin Antal, Ariane - In: Neue Qualitäten betrieblichen Lernens, (pp. 157-161). 1992

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