State-owned companies are typically trapped in a bureaucratic system that means they expe-rience difficulties undertaking changes and adapting to environmental changes. Whenever these com-panies attempt a strategic maneuver, a series of complex bureaucratic procedures must be followed. As a...

Despite a consensus view in the literature about the importance of cross-functional collaboration (CFC) for corporate environmental performance improvement, there is a dearth of studies that explain how exactly sustainability-oriented CFC can foster this objective. The purpose of this paper is...

State-owned companies are typically trapped in a bureaucratic system that means they expe-rience difficulties undertaking changes and adapting to environmental changes. Whenever these com-panies attempt a strategic maneuver, a series of complex bureaucratic procedures must be followed. As a...

[ES] En el entorno actual, la obtención de innovaciones en la gestión, en el producto y en el proceso, resulta una herramienta competitiva fundamental para las empresas. Éstas, para garantizarse fuentes de innovación, deben recurrir a mecanismos de captación y generación de conocimiento....

This paper presents how, during a period of four years, the management a football league changed its organization structure from vertical to more horizontal, by redesigning it towards a Transactional Network Structure. The transactional network structure allowed more knowledge to be exchanged in...

The latest achievements in knowledge-based economy are supporting the existence of important features: the primacy of knowledge in all spheres of economic activity ; intellectual property has a considerable weight in national heritage, to base economic activities is done primarily on intangible...

As stressed by many authors, knowledge is a key res ource which is nowadays lying at the heart of organizational performance of knowledge intensive o rganizations. Such organizations are characterized by an increasing number of knowledge intensive and interconnected processes. Many knowledge...

The increasing globalization of business, leaner organizations, products and service convergence and vast development of technology implied that the issues of more efficient and effective operation of an organization’s knowledge assets have become more important than ever before. Years ago...

Confirming the well known thesis knowledge is power, A. Toffler argued that the knowledge based society represents the acme of the human society development and P. Drucker said that the developed countries passing through the knowledge based society represents the biggest change of the modern...

Business Intelligence although seems one of the newest discipline integrated in the big family of MANAGEMENT, actually has its roots in the antique military strategies. BI evoluated a lot in the last years (mainly since 1994, when it received the first time its name in France), until it became a...