The technological revolution (especially in the field of information and communications technology) and globalization are the key factors in shaping the new competitive landscape which is characterized by hypercompetition, increasing consumer demands and increasing demands for innovation,...

In this article, we describe the preliminary results of an ongoing project to improve the dynamics of innovative teams. We investigate how to design a system that allows employees in an open space to swap the place with a colleague for one day. We call this system “Pick my desk and go” and...

Previous studies have shown that both environmental uncertainty and organization structure are systematically associated with the perceived usefulness of management accounting system (MAS) attributes. The evidence to date however has been mixed with some suggesting that environmental uncertainty...

We study business organization and coordination of specialty-market hog production using a comparative analysis of two Iowa pork niche-marketing firms. We describe and analyze each firm's management of five key organizational challenges: planning and logistics, quality assurance, process...

Teorinėje darbo dalyje aprašomi įvairus kompanijų susijungimų tipai ir būdai., daugiausia orientuojamasi į gamybinėms įmonėms tinkamas, kurios turi ne vieną departamentą ir jose dirba santykinai nemaţai ţmonių Lietuvos rinkos mastu. Analizės dalyje paţymima kad bendrovėse kyla...

In this edition of the organizational zoo series, we take a closer look at an interesting organization design case-GitHub, a software company from California. Similar to Valve, the subject of the previous article in the series (Puranam and Håkonsson, J Organ Design 4: 2-4, 2015) GitHub is used...

Organizational scholars have shown increasing interest in the ways in which managers enact and respond to competing demands and the tensions they prompt as constitutive elements of their organizations. There is now a proliferation of conceptualizations of such competing demands that can be...

This study examines fits and misfits between information processing requirements and capacities in a hospital emergency department in order to identify possible explanations for the "weekend effect." Previous research has shown that acute patients admitted to hospital emergency departments on a...