Internal communication has become an important factor in today's business world. The increased use of electronic media can, despite their obvious advantages, cause communication problems, i.e. information overload. By avoiding communication problems, the productivity of a company can be...

This paper describes the results of a multiple case study of five ERP implementations. This investigation led to some remarkable conclusions. Using the project implementation success of Wixom and Watson (2001) as a yardstick, only two out of the five cases could be considered as successful....

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that economic or social phenomena are ultimately grounded in individual knowing and choice. Recently numerous collective concepts have been introduced into our thinking about the firm - absorptive capacity, communities of practice, dynamic...

In Thailand, the increasingly burdensome regulations and oversight mechanisms imposed by state agencies have contributed to a compliance-oriented culture of research in most universities. Any deviation from the stipulated practices can result in swift action by state agencies, such as the Office...

Wenn prozessorientiertes Performance Management in nationalen Unternehmen und in internationalen Unternehmen gleich ausgeprägt ist, können viele Synergieeffekte erreicht werden. Dazu wurde eine explorative Studie auf Basis von 26 Industriepartnern mit Hilfe einer anonymisierten...

Bullying and harassment are the dark side of sport, not open to spectators and often ignored by coaches and leaders. Therefore, the research aim is to identify prevalence of bullying and harassment in Lithuanian organized sport with regard to individual, combat and team sports, highlighting...

We argue that there is a system of management ideas, that is, set of institutionalized high level heuristics that guide organizational and individual behaviours in managerial reality, involves distinct knowledge and transfers that knowledge across time and space, may change as a result of local...

The management fashion literature has highlighted the role played by business media (i.e. print media outlets) in the diffusion and dissemination of new management concepts and ideas. However, in the last few years, we have witnessed the emergence of social media. Recent research has shown a...

Dealing with the issue ‘Why should the question of practical wisdom be asked in business schools?’ we first identify three types of criticism commonly addressed to business schools: an inadequate intra-system logic, an insufficient toolbox, and unfitting educational environments and methods....

This paper discusses key properties of the N-form corporation or internal network forms of organizing from three mutually related perspectives: structure, knowledge flows and management processes. To operationalize knowledge flows, a key property of N-forms, the paper suggests a new measure, the...