Organizational Culture and Leadership -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- Part One: Defining the Structure of Culture -- 1. How to Define Culture in General -- The Problem of Defining Culture Clearly -- Accumulated Shared Learning -- Basic...

Preface to fifth edition -- Foreword -- Defining the structure of culture -- How to define culture in general -- How to describe and analyze the three levels of culture -- A young and growing u.s. engineering organization -- A mature swiss-german chemical organization -- A developmental...

Local search algorithms for combinatorial optimization problems are in general of pseudopolynomial running time and polynomial-time algorithms are often not known for finding locally optimal solutions for NP-hard optimization problems. We introduce the concept of epsilon-local optimality and...

The literature on new goods and social welfare generally assumes that innovations are developed by manufacturers. But innovation by users has been found to also be an important part of innovative activity in the economy. In this paper we explore the impact of users as a source of innovation on...