Issues of European companies' effectiveness in the conditions of an unstable world economic situation became a priority for all managers. The economic crisis caught many managers unawares and made economic agents of the European market face new major problems on formation of instruments of...

The dynamic choice between individual and social learning is explored for a population of autonomous agents whose objective is to find solutions to a stream of related problems. The probability that an agent is in the individual learning mode, as opposed to the social learning mode, evolves over...

Specialization requirement led the outsourcing preferred intensely by firms. Evidently “logistics activities” constitute an important part in the outsourced business activities. In this study, interviews were conducted with the managers from Turkey's steel pipe production enterprises who...

This study empirically investigated how small and medium-sized Chinese apparel enterprises (SME) formed their strategy as a response to the characteristics of business environment in order to achieve competitive business performance. An environment-strategy-performance model was proposed and...

The ISO 9001 quality management system (QMS) includes a method of continuous improvement put in place in 1994. Through this system, audits and reviews are performed to identify, correct and prevent problems. Although the method of continuous improvement, combined with adherence to annual quality...

Fordismo proviene del apellido Ford, relativo a Henry Ford, norteamericano, quien a principios del siglo XX implementa la producción en serie y a gran escala como fórmula de organizar el trabajo y la producción en sus fábricas automotrices, gracias a la especialización del trabajo. También...

Prior literature noted the potential that advanced environmental management might have in the generation of valuable organizational capabilities regarding costs minimization. More-over, during last years, one of the most important objectives in the development of transport public policies has...

Ücret, bireyin çalıştığı kuruma karşı takındığı tavrı belirleyen temel faktörlerden birisidir. Bu faktörün açıklanmasına yönelik olarak yapılan çalışmaları iş tatmini üzerinden ücret tatminini açıklamaya çalışan ve ücret tatmininin doğrudan incelenmesine...

When firms (conglomerates) are competing, not only for the present, with a given population of customers and a fixed set of commodities or service, but also for the future, in which products are constantly evolving, what will be their competitive strategies and what will be the emerging ecology...

The continued importance of organizational learning has recently led to several calls for further developing the theory. This article addresses these calls by extending Crossan, Lane and White’s (1999) 4I model to include a fifth process, information foraging, and a fourth level, the tool. The...