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This paper describes a study that investigates the mediating effects of information technology (IT) on the relationships among product and process innovations and firm performance (measured in multiple profitability and growth rate metrics). Using structural equation modeling on a sample of 397...
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This paper introduces a unified model for organizational change that is designed to help change analysts think through the decision-making process. Most organizational leaders do not manage change effectively because they fail to acquire the minimum amount of information necessary to make a...
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Unternehmenskultur ist ein interdisziplinärer Begriff. Einerseits findet er Anwendung im Rahmen der … international tätigen Unternehmen anhaften kann: Es ist dies die nationale Prägung von Unternehmenskultur. Eine sich stellende Frage … ist, ob es objektiv feststellbare nationale Besonderheiten und Spezifika in der Unternehmenskultur gibt. In der …
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This study investigated whether the different home languages of employees of a large financial institution in the Western Cape had an influence of their perception of organisational structure and processes.The author conducted a series of interviews with management-level employees who speak...
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Nurturing continuous innovation and renewal in public agencies is not only important but critical to successful public management in an environment of change. Innovation is a tool for transforming the entire culture of organizations and there is a growing recognition that fostering a culture of...
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This paper aims to identify key elements of innovative culture using innovation audit tools. The research seeks to determine if factors such as the ability to collaborate are important in building a culture that supports innovation. Many firms are continually scanning the environment for sources...
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Innovative narratives are represented, at times almost prescribed, in the management literature. While the key to developing competencies is fundamentally linked to many innovative practices and processes, the fundamentals of innovation cannot be separated from values, from learning, from...
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This study reports the results of an exploratory, theory-building study on the impact of creativity on business … business processes that can be described as highly dependent on creativity, interdependent, client-focused, complex, but also … order to manage these processes. The study suggests that creativity-intensive processes are characterized by high levels of …
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This study investigates the influence of creativity on the modeling and documentation of business processes. Based on a … substantive theory a modeling method is developed that allows for the capturing of creativity-intensive processes. This method …
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Creativity and entrepreneurship, like innovation, have been recognized as important contributors to a nation’s economic … growth. Creativity plays an important role in the fuzzy front end of a firm’s innovation process and also in corporate … venturing processes, but the relationship between creativity and entrepreneurship to a large extent has not explicitly been …
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