This article discusses the relatively young phenomenon of coworking and its value propositions from a company's perspective. It aims at giving an overview of the current research on coworking with a special focus on coworking as "third places" for mature organisations. In contrast to startups,...

Diversity is increasingly being addressed as an innovation-promoting factor. For this reason, companies and institutions tackle the integration of a diversity management approach that enables a heterogenic perspective on innovation development. However, system-theoretical frameworks state that...

Organizational culture, as an area of management is a complex system of mutual values that creates an organization's identity and makes it different from the competition. The aim of this paper is to create an adequate approach for improving competitive advantages and better performance of...

Purpose: Since the emergence of Lean Manufacturing many organizations strived to implement it. Nonetheless, sustainable Lean transformation is not as easy as to be simply achieved. Several aspects need to be taken into account before Lean implementation which national and organizational culture...

This paper introduces the concept of "interface of complexity" as a source of creating and dealing with possible participatory approaches to organisational development. Based on an actor-network-theory approach, we conceive of interfaces as complex events, situations and transitions in a...