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‘Business as usual’ has come under heavy scrutiny. Public outrage over crooked corporate officers, the looting of pension funds, the defrauding of stockholders, and the wholesale firing of hardworking employees has reached a new high (see e.g. Jackson and Nelson 2004; Pirson 2007). Not only the...
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The profitability of a firm is jointly determined by it's organizational structure and the market structure. To explore the effects of market factors on optimal organizational structure we develop a real-time information processing model of a multi unit firm in a dynamic duopoly environment. Our...
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Hierarchy is a fundamental phenomenon in management and organization science, a phenomenon which has marked the …
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The turbulent business environments, coupled with the unstable world economy following the global financial crises, have certainly put pressures on firm's survivability. The financial conditions of firms may have been the closest approximation to learn the influential effect of the economy. The...
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adopting ISO 9000 standards. Moreover, our findings show that despite the modern anti-bureaucratic management ideology, there …
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Organizational Analytics refers to the use of advanced techniques of analysis to (re)-design organizations in order to improve their functioning. The techniques include statistical analysis of behavioral and network data, design of experiments, and the use of agent-based computational models to...
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In this paper we investigate potential influence of organizational downsizing on organizational knowledge and learning. We discuss organizational downsizing in order to show that in large it is an issue of organizational design, and as such, managerial activity that must be coordinated with...
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In this paper we analyse representations of the Japanese salaryman and Japanese organization in Japanese manga, or graphic novels, during the turbulent decades from the mid-1980s to the present day. We argue that manga presents salarymen protagonists in a sympathetic yet not uncritical light,...
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In recent years, many new approaches have emerged regarding the effective and efficient management of organizations … management and organizational development and strategic management. In this context, approaches such as organizational agility …, business continuity management, high reliability organizations and organizational resilience, which have been among the …
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