Over the last five decades the Toyota Production System (TPS) has evolved from an advanced sociotechnical concept in manufacturing to a participative design for large-scale change management. Toyota has been able to sustain a strategic competitive advantage by applying TPS as a process...

Purpose: In the extant organizational change literature scant attention has been given to the communication and cognitive processes consequential to organizational transformation. From the communication and sense-making perspectives, this study discusses the role of positive communication...

With the arrival of the new millennium, many industries across the developed economies are increasingly facing volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous business environments-often characterized as VUCA-caused by a host of disruptive factors hyper-competition, globalized value chains,...

The alliance governance ndash; whether equity or nonequity based ndash; through which an alliance is governed serves as a mechanism to protect a firm from partner's opportunistic behavior, manage resource dependence and facilitate knowledge sharing. Alliance governance structure also reflects...