Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the concept of performative struggle through the use of an interpretative case story focussed on a strategic decision-making process concerning infrastructural development. Performativity is about “world-making” (Carter et al. , 2010),...

This article presents an innovative organizational design with the action oriented goal to get families involved in their children's literacy development prior to the start of formal schooling. A child's journey to become school ready is a responsibility shared by many. Asserting that community...

Based on the result of a survey of 1500 Russian industrial companies we not only clarified the intensity of particular innovations but also interconnections between technological and managerial innovations. We also determined the institutional factors that affect the intensity of particular...

We study the relation between formal incentives and social exchange in organizations where employees work for several managers and reciprocate to a manager's attention with higher effort. To this end we develop a common agency model with two-sided moral hazard. We show that when effort is...

When managers are sufficiently guided by social preferences, incentive provision through an organizational mode based on informal implicit contracts may provide a cost-effective alternative to a more formal mode based on explicit contracts and monitoring. This paper reports the results from a...

The technological revolution (especially in the field of information and communications technology) and globalization are the key factors in shaping the new competitive landscape which is characterized by hypercompetition, increasing consumer demands and increasing demands for innovation,...

We investigate whether appointing a middle management level affects startups' innovation performance. Additional hierarchical levels are often suspected to restrict innovative activities. However, founders' capacities for information processing and resource allocation are usually strongly...

In this article, we describe the preliminary results of an ongoing project to improve the dynamics of innovative teams. We investigate how to design a system that allows employees in an open space to swap the place with a colleague for one day. We call this system “Pick my desk and go” and...

We study business organization and coordination of specialty-market hog production using a comparative analysis of two Iowa pork niche-marketing firms. We describe and analyze each firm's management of five key organizational challenges: planning and logistics, quality assurance, process...