Purpose – Did the Soviet development strategy of according high priority to firms in heavy industry give these firms an advantage during Russia's transition to a market-oriented economy? This paper seeks to answer this question. Design/methodology/approach – To document industry variation in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an empirical evaluation of the impact of infrastructure development on industry-level productivity, output and efficiency in India over the period 1994-2006. Design/methodology/approach – The first stage, estimated total factor productivity...

Through a survey of Indian software organizations, we test a model of work-oriented cognitions and performance measures using structural equation modeling. The developed framework presents satisfaction at work, productivity at work, and quality of work as consequences of organizational culture....

The application of info-communication tools in economy pushes organisations to fast and flexible reactions. Thus they are forced to the change of culture in order to keep their competitiveness. The change of culture also includes human actors of the economy and the whole of the working process....

The present study focuses on studying the perception of joint ventures, which have prevailed in recent years due to globalization, and in an effort to shed some light on the contribution of organizational and national culture to the performance of international joint ventures in which Israeli...

This study has four main goals: (1) diagnosing the organizational culture of Tehran׳s pharmaceutical companies; (2) investigating the implementation of different categories of TQM in these companies; (3) comparing two models explaining the relationships among culture, TQM and performance; (4)...

Vibrant environments recognized by technical, economic and political change increasingly requires company agility among organizations. The purpose of this study was to explore the characteristics of change process and their impact on performance of an organization and to identify the culture of...

Organizational culture is a key source of competitive advantage. There is a demonstrated relation between organizational culture and organizational performance. This paper reviews previous research in the field and introduce a new model for understanding , diagnosing and changing organizational...

Organisational culture influences members´ behaviour and therefore organisational performance. The specialised literature has documented a variety of performance outcomes related to specifi c characteristics of organisational culture profi les. This paper reviews the similarities and...

This study engages in the competing values framework to capture the underlying value of organizational culture. Survey data collected from 880 Iran manufacturing plants, the relationships between four culture types and three Six Sigma practices were examined via the structural equation modeling...