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The project-oriented organisation through the lens of viable systems

Lechler, Ruth Christine; Lehner, Patrick; Röösli, Franz; … - In: Project leadership and society 3 (2022), pp. 1-10

Organisations are increasingly implementing projects to respond to growing complexity and changes in their environments. Such organisations are referred to as project-oriented organisations. This organisation type has been described with regard to value-based, people-based and structure-based...

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Overcoming critical failure factors in enterprise information systems implementation : a viable system model framework for manufacturing firms

Panagiotidis, Kyriakos; Tsolakis, Naoum; Tsigkas, Alexander - In: Journal of the Operational Research Society 74 (2023) 7, pp. 1670-1689

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Designing interagency responses to wicked problems : a viable system model board game

Sydelko, Pamela; Espinosa Salazar, Ángela Ma.; … - In: European journal of operational research : EJOR 312 (2024) 2, pp. 746-764

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Using the Viable System Model (VSM) to structure information processing complexity in disaster response

Preece, Gary; Shaw, Duncan; Hayashi, Haruo - In: European Journal of Operational Research 224 (2013) 1, pp. 209-218

Earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding and terrorist attacks continue to threaten our society and, when the worst happens, lives depend on different agencies to manage the response. The literature shows that there is significant potential for operational research (OR) to aid disaster management and...

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Application of the Viable System Model to analyse communications structures: A case study of disaster response in Japan

Preece, Gary; Shaw, Duncan; Hayashi, Haruo - In: European Journal of Operational Research 243 (2015) 1, pp. 312-322

Every year, natural and man-made disasters affect hundreds of thousands of people and cause extensive damage. OR has made substantial contributions to disaster response and these have been the subject of several recent literature reviews. However, these reviews have also identified research gaps...

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Toward a Viable Integrated Marketing Communications in Egypt

Ibrahim, Hisham; Moscardini, Alfredo; Ragab, Aiman - International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences - 2014

The concept of Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) has received significant coverage in literature. However, there is a problem in translating this concept into reality due to the difficulties of coordinating all communication tools in one program. The advances in communication technology...

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Viable system model structuring of success factors in software projects

Puche Regaliza, Julio César; Jiménez, Alfredo; Val, … - In: International Journal of Managing Projects in Business 10 (2017) 4, pp. 897-919

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to identify the principal success factors of a software project structured upon the basis of the viable system model (VSM). Design/methodology/approach To do so, an exploratory empirical analysis is conducted of a set of software projects, in which the degree...

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Disentangling the Role of Contract Types and Sector Disparities for Public Service Motivation

Grund, Christian; Thommes, Kirsten - 2015

specific public service motivation (PSM) is shaped. In our paper, we analyze how different degrees of inclusion in the public … sector impact PSM. We also investigate how prospects of employment relations (fixed-term versus permanent contracts …), temporal differences (part-time versus full-time employment), and actual jobs (core versus subsidiary jobs) moderate PSM in …

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Adoption of improved groundnut seed and its impact on rural households' welfare in Eastern Ethiopia

Ahmed, Musa H.; Mesfin, Hiwot M.; Abady, Seltene; … - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 4 (2016) 1, pp. 1-18

This study has evaluated the impact of adoption of improved groundnut seed on the well-being of the farmers of Eastern Ethiopia using a cross-sectional data collected from 301 sample households. To address this objective, both descriptive and econometric analysis methods were employed. In the...

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The impact of agricultural cooperatives membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers: empirical evidence from eastern Ethiopia

Ahmed, Musa Hasen; Mesfin, Hiwot Mekonnen - In: Agricultural and Food Economics 5 (2017) 6, pp. 1-13

This study evaluated the impact of agricultural cooperative membership on the wellbeing of smallholder farmers using cross-sectional data collected from the eastern part of Ethiopia. Using consumption per adult equivalent as a wellbeing indicator, we measured the impact of agricultural...

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