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Recent corporate governance developments in Greece

Nerantzidis, Michail; Filos, John - In: Corporate Governance 14 (2014) 3, pp. 281-299

Purpose – This study aims to investigate the recent corporate governance (CG) developments in Greece. The recent economic crisis of Greece has caused very high mobility, both at a state level by imposing a new Greek regulation in capital market and at a level of associations in Greece by...

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Continuing the evolution: towards sustainable HRM and sustainable organizations

Ricardo de Souza Freitas, Wesley; José Chiappetta … - In: Business Strategy Series 12 (2011) 5, pp. 226-234

management (HRM). Design/methodology/approach – This article provides a literature review on the evolution of HRM and we … in HRM evolution. The study argues that sustainable HRM is completely necessary to achieve sustainable organizations and …

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Evolutionary ecology and organizations: a conversation between a biologist and an organization development practitioner

Davis, Heather G.; Kim Barnes, B. - In: Industrial and Commercial Training 42 (2010) 1, pp. 18-22

Purpose – Natural science principles allow a novel way to gain insight into human organizations. The paper aims to highlight this by using the format of a conversation. Design/methodology/approach – The authors discuss six key concepts from the science of evolutionary ecology selected by the...

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Platform power in AI : the evolution of cloud infrastructures in the political economy of artificial intelligence

Luitse, Dieuwertje - In: Internet policy review : journal on internet regulation 13 (2024) 2, pp. 1-44

In recent years, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have become three of the dominant developers of AI infrastructures and services. The increasing economic and political power of these companies over the data, computing infrastructures, and AI expertise that play a central role in the development of...

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Modeling continuous improvement evolution in the service sector

Milner, Christopher D.; Savage, Barbara M. - In: International Journal of Quality and Service Sciences 8 (2016) 3, pp. 438-460

establish and sustain incremental performance improvement. Alongside a review of existing continuous improvement (CI) evolution … evolution of CI over almost a decade of activity. Findings The findings establish that there are numerous obstacles faced and a … frameworks of CI evolution to be tested within the private and service sectors. The research offers an application and reflection …

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Evolutionary change stimuli and moderators – evidence from New Zealand

Ahmed, Hafsa; Balzarova, Michaela; Cohen, David A - In: Journal of Organizational Change Management 28 (2015) 4, pp. 546-564

Purpose – The review of contemporary organisational change theories identified one theory which seemed relevant to explaining the organisational change phenomenon in public enterprises – Van de Ven and Poole’s (1995) Evolutionary Change Theory (ECT). However, further review of the...

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Let chaos reign, then rein in chaos - repeatedly: managing strategic dynamics for corporate longevity

Burgelman, R.A. - In: Strategic Direction 24 (2008) 2

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Financing social enterprise: social bricolage or evolutionary entrepreneurialism?

Sunley, Peter; Pinch, Steven - In: Social Enterprise Journal 8 (2012) 2, pp. 108-122

Purpose – This paper aims to examine the extent to which urban social enterprises (SEs) have diversified their funding sources and shifted towards loans and development finance in recent years. The paper seeks to consider the underlying reasons for a limited demand for loans by comparing two...

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Induced variation in administrative systems

Caldart, Adrian; S. Vassolo, Roberto; Silvestri, Luciana - In: Management Research: The Journal of the Iberoamerican … 12 (2014) 2, pp. 123-151

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to revise Burgelman’s idea (1991, 1994) that induced strategic processes is necessarily variation-reducing. In doing so, the authors explore whether major change in a firm’s administrative system can be managed in an evolutionary fashion via induced...

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A grounded theory study on leader authority formation process in China

Zhang, Xiao-feng; Zhang, Xiao-juan; Li, Lei; Li, Gui-quan; … - In: Nankai Business Review International 7 (2016) 3, pp. 345-360

activities. Findings In the “evolution” path of authority formation, leaders continually consolidate and improve their authority … parallel paths which are “evolution” and “design”, the dynamic leader authority formation model in China is founded. …

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