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Leadership is widely acknowledged as the key driver of innovation and the achievement of overall organisational … relationship between leadership, the operating environment, the use of process technologies, management practices, innovation and … to innovation and the introduction of new products whereas transactional leadership firms tend to modify products …
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, increased sales and profits, and product and process innovation than firms that do not follow this path. Their findings suggest …
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We develop a simple theoretical model of a long term buyer-supplier relationship with non-contractible buyer specific R&D investment, and derive predictions on the effects of trust and competition on suppliers’ investment and buyers’ procurement strategies. We address these issues...
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and room for administrative innovation to accommodate past administrative idiosyncrasies to market environment. In …
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Cross-sectional studies of organisation have yielded a number of relationships between contingencies and structure. However, some diachronic studies of changes in contingency and structure have not produced the results expected. The suggestion of this paper is that this may reflect inappropriate...
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collection tool comprised two self-made questionnaires on the organizational structure with the aspect of formality … three dimensions of formality, centralization and complexity with a number of Human Resources Development constructs i ….e. occupational conscience, self-evaluation and occupational skills. There was a negative relation between formality, creativity and …
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In this paper we analyse the relative importance of individual ability and labour market institutions, including public sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. To do this we use the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study data...
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This paper studies the effects of increasing formality via tax reduction and simplification schemes on micro … only on a segment of the micro-firm population, for which the effect of formality on firm performance can be identified … of formality, we use an econometric approach that compares eligible and non-eligible firms, born before and after SIMPLES …
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In this paper we analyse the relative importance of individual ability and labour market institutions, including public sector wage setting and trade unions, in determining earnings differences across different types of employment. To do this we use the KwaZulu-Natal Income Dynamics Study data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555209