This paper proposes a new conception of consumer psychological empowerment while substantiating and defining its different facets. To this end, we conducted 18 interviews with biological food consumers which have been recorded and transcribed and analyzed using the Sphinx software. The results...

This paper proposes a new conception of consumer psychological empowerment while substantiating and defining its different facets. To this end, we conducted 18 interviews with biological food consumers which have been recorded and transcribed and analyzed using the Sphinx software. The results...

In the fast-changing environment of today, organisations have a tendency to change theirstrategy to be able to adapt to changing circumstances. It has become increasinglyimportant for organisations to remain competitive in the marketplace. The managementof organisations is therefore showing more...

Organisations increasingly operate in an environment of continuous change and turbulence which places new demands on the choice of business and supportive strategies relevant not only to the sustainable competitive advantage (SCA) of the particular organisation, but also countries and the global...

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A market orientation has been shown to lead to improved firm performance in a variety of industries (Narver and Slater, 1990; Deshpande et al., 1993). In previous research, it has been argued that performance benefits are a result of a greater awareness of the sources of value the product provides...

Organizations are faced with competitive and changeable environments whichdemand more prepared employees to successfully cope with these current and futurechallenges (Oswick, Grant, Michelson, and Wailes, 2005). Organizations, as a way to copewith more hostile environments, may foster individual...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to set out an argument for a way to design, implement and manage IS with an emphasis on first, the learning that can be created through undertaking the approach, and second, the learning that may be created through using the IS that was implemented. The...

The normative literature within the field of Knowledge Management has tended to concentrate on techniques and methodologies for codifying knowledge. Similarly, the literature on organizational learning, focuses on aspects of those knowledge that are pertinent at the macro-organizational level...

The normative literature within the field of Knowledge Management has concentrated on techniques and methodologies for allowing knowledge to be codified and made available to individuals and groups within organizations. The literature on Organizational Learning however, has tended to focus on...