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produces the duality of organizational structuration overtime. An ethnographic communication-focused approach provides methods … for recognizing multiple sites and levels of the Structuration process. As a result, this approach provides a major … contribution to understanding the process of Structuration through agents?? actions in the context of their organizational culture. …
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learning in terms of structuration theory. Structuration is the dynamic process by which an organisation’s rules and resources …. Through structuration, workers were able to exercise agency in redesigning their own work processes, and they emerged as self …
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The global business environment has evolved since 1990. This change has brought companies new realities in the form of new business opportunities for growth and, at the same time has exposed them to new competitors.This has caused companies to invest many resources in devising new effective...
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Since the beginnings of venture creation the traditional role of the entrepreneur changed from only being the owner of a small business to include those individuals within a large company who has entrepreneurial skills and applies these to benefit the company. In an ever faster growing global...
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Entrepreneurship is generally defined as the creation of new businesses - yet, nowhere is it more important than in large, established organisations. Product life cycles are contracting and businesses need to stay ahead of competition. Organisations need innovative and creative employees to...
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firm however human resource management (HRM) in individual clustered firms has received scant attention. This paper …’s boundaries. The paper concludes that HRM can assist in generating rents for firms and clusters more broadly when the function …
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There is little research on HRM practices in knowledge-intensive firms (KIFs), especially in comparison to that … conducted in traditional production environments. Whether such HRM practices are appropriate for KIFs, particularly ones that … differentiate themselves on their ability to innovate, is the basis of this research. The study investigates the HRM practices being …
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Headcount reporting is supposed to be a simple counting process with a tangible outcome. However, counting the "number of people a business employs on a global basis" is not as straightforward as it should be. In one recent case, a corporate human resources (HR) report showed that the company's...
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The 21" century business environment is dominated by unprecedented change across a broad spectrum of social, economic, technological and cultural factors (Nowotny, Scott & Gibbons 2001). Among these, two broad trends -economic globalisation and rising knowledge intensity (Hart 2006)have come to...
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Effective people management is essential to successful innovation, however no single human resource function or practice can facilitate the development of innovation capacity in an organization. Several studies have argued that different bundles or configurations of human resource practices can...
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