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Extending the “knowledge advantage”: creating learning chains

Maqsood, Tayyab; Walker, Derek; Finegan, Andrew - In: The Learning Organization 14 (2007) 2, pp. 123-141

learning organisation and supply chain management so that learning chains can be created in order to unleash innovation and … developed as a part of CRC for Construction Innovation Australia, research project “Delivering improved knowledge management and … facilitate innovation and creativity essentially required to thrive in the unpredictable business environment of today …

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Leadership and the company turnaround process

Harker, Michael; Sharma, Bishnu - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 21 (2000) 1, pp. 36-47

Three firms engaged in the heavy engineering industry undergoing the transition from organisational decline to recovery were studied in‐depth in a period of significant change for the industry. The purpose of the study was to explore the way in which leaders manage the company turnaround...

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The quantum skills model in management: a new paradigm to enhance effective leadership

Shelton, Charlotte K.; Darling, John R. - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 22 (2001) 6, pp. 264-273

The traditional management skills of planning, organizing, directing and controlling are inadequate in the fast‐paced, constantly changing, highly complex world of twenty‐first century organizations. This article uses concepts from quantum mechanics and chaos theory as metaphors for a new...

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Transforming an old economy company into a new economy success: the case of NTT DoCoMo

Kodama, Mitsuru - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 23 (2002) 1, pp. 26-39

Uses a case study to discuss factors for success in the course of achieving strategic innovation in the mobile Internet … entrepreneurial strategies based on time pacing. At the same time, with the aim to implement strategic innovation, the company … body. Behind this successful innovation lies the formation of a strategic community with both new and traditional …

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Leadership and innovation in the public sector

Borins, Sandford - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 23 (2002) 8, pp. 467-476

This article considers the nature and role of leadership in three ideal types of public management innovation …‐up innovations initiated by front‐line public servants and middle managers. Quantitative results from public sector innovation awards … indicate that bottom‐up innovation occurs much more frequently than conventional wisdom would indicate. Effective political …

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An academic leadership‐based group experience

Lorena Hernández Yáñez, María - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 25 (2004) 3, pp. 249-262

From 1997 to 1999, the University of Guadalajara (in the state of Jalisco, Mexico), implemented for the first time the Retention and Stimuli for Academic Leadership Groups Program, better known in the institutional context as PRYEGLA. In the context of Mexican higher education this program...

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Management control systems and organizational development

Sisaye, Seleshi - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 26 (2005) 1, pp. 51-61

Purpose – Aims to apply organizational systems perspectives to discuss the three types of organizational development (OD) and management control systems (MCS): normative, coercive and remunerative‐instrumental (utilitarian) that affect the operating performance of teams....

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Teams and management control systems: a synthesis of three organizational development approaches

Sisaye, Seleshi - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 26 (2005) 3, pp. 172-185

Purpose – This paper applies organizational development (OD) process‐cultural and structural change strategies to synthesize Etzioni's three approaches to power and compliance: normative, coercive and remunerative to study the management control systems of teams in organizations....

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The leadership/management conundrum: innovation or risk management?

Borgelt, Karen; Falk, Ian - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 28 (2007) 2, pp. 122-136

innovation are being stifled in a contemporary organizational environment of continuous change. Design/methodology/approach – The … knowledge resources that helps address the tension between risk management and innovation. Research limitations … schema of steps for managing the change culture of organizations. Originality/value – By its very name and nature “innovation …

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8 Steps To Building Innovating Organizations

Walz, James T. (Jim) - In: Leadership & Organization Development Journal 28 (2007) 8, pp. 785-786

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