Purpose – This paper seeks to address the risks for a main contractor firm's project business that arise from subcontractors' inter‐organizational relationships in complex‐ and dynamic‐project networks. Design/methodology/approach – Existing project risk management research neglects...

Purpose – This paper seeks to develop a model for risk management of knowledge loss in a project‐based organization in Iran. Design/methodology/approach – This study uses a multi‐stage research approach. In the first stage, existing practices are examined to develop a model for risk...

Purpose – This paper aims to propose a risk identification method which is a synthesis of existing tools and techniques. Design/methodology/approach – Risks are viewed as a temporal hierarchy of major decisions or events at the highest level, projects at the middle level, and routine...

Publication No. 49 of the Association of College and Research Libraries entitled Restructuring Academic Libraries: Organizational Development in the Wake of Technological Change states “the swift advance of computer networking has disrupted print‐age organizational structures in higher...

This article focuses on the use of activity‐based management (ABM) theory for the control and the redesign of the centralized units of a large multinational company operating in the chemical sector. To this aim, ABM has been adapted to the peculiar characteristics of support services. In...

The last decade has been a turbulent one for the automobile industry. Two of the more significant competitive priorities that have emerged from this turbulence are the introduction of the platform strategy in new product development and the integration of information technology in the product,...

This paper studies the influence of firm size over degree of innovation in a service sector, specifically in engineering consulting and technology services in Spain. A multiple regression analysis was used to test hypothesis about firm size positive influence over degree of innovation in...

Although there has been much academic discussion of employee behaviours as potential barriers to market orientation, comparatively little attention has been focused on organizational barriers to market orientation. No single study has undertaken a holistic review of structural, strategic and...

Reports an investigation of some of the factors that influence product management decisions in consumer goods companies. Looks at a product manager's role in the whole organization, particularly the decision‐taking and participatory activity as a response to pressures from the working...

This case study narrates the experience of a medium‐sized UK manufacturing company in setting up and running a manufacturing plant in Shanghai, People’s Republic of China. It details how features of the social organisation of production, the human resource policies and the management...