We build a simple formal model of governance. Investments and control rights over assets and labor are fully contractible, but final production decisions are ex ante uncontractible, and ex post negotiations are inefficient. If sunk costs are low, suppliers own assets and trade takes the form of...

To understand how telework is perceived among occupational groups with different work tasks within the same company, this qualitative study aimed to explore how managers and employees experience telework in relation to well-being, individual performance, and the work environment. This...

After the privatization of telecommunications companies in Brazil in the late 1990s, Brazilian cities experienced an expansion of internet services. This paper analyzes the impact of this technological shock on the relative employment of managers between sectors according to their technological...

We build a simple formal model of governance. Investments and control rights over assets and labor are fully contractible, but final production decisions are ex ante uncontractible, and ex post negotiations are inefficient. If sunk costs are low, suppliers own assets and trade takes the form of...

After the privatization of telecommunications companies in Brazil in the late 1990s, Brazilian cities experienced an expansion of internet services. This paper analyzes the impact of this technological shock on the relative employment of managers between sectors according to their technological...

Data-driven strategies that leverage digital technologies for task improvement are increasingly being adopted across organizations. However, theoretical and empirical insights into how such strategies are implemented-and the organizational tensions they may generate-remain scarce. This study...

To understand how telework is perceived among occupational groups with different work tasks within the same company, this qualitative study aimed to explore how managers and employees experience telework in relation to well-being, individual performance, and the work environment. This...

This study aims to investigate how small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in developing countries can leverage customer relationship management (CRM) for business growth. It extends the Technology-Organization-Environment (TOE) framework by incorporating digital leadership and examining its role in...

This study identifies key drivers for ERP implementation in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Austro-Ecuador and examines their impact on operational efficiency, strategic adaptability, and digital transformation. Motivated by the limited empirical evidence on ERP adoption in Latin...

The study explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the digitalization and organizational changes in companies across different sectors in Germany. The research addresses the extent to which the pandemic accelerated digitalization, the variations in digitalization focus among companies,...

Digital innovations reshape the competitive landscape for machinery and plant engineering companies, challenging established organizational structures to integrate digital and physical products, and increasingly calling for open-innovation collaborations that leverage external knowledge and...

Strategic communication is emerging as a widespread professional field. When communication is strategic, the aim is purposeful impact. In society, politics, civil society and markets, new techniques and practices are being developed for communication to achieve such impact. Strategic...

The theoretical ideal of a competitive market is generally assumed to separate organizing from trading, in an implicit dualism. Traders sell or buy within the market but do not organize it. This paper proposes an alternative, more realistic conceptual scheme based on duality, in which organizing...

Organizational structures are an important determinant of individual incentives and thus individual motivation in organizations. We study whether their effects on individual motivation go beyond incentives and how they relate to the perceived legitimacy of organizational structure. To this end,...

Welcome to the Special Issue on Applications of Complexity for Resilient Organizations, Management, and Innovation Systems. This Special Issue includes six articles highlighting how complexity science and complex systems approaches can be employed to study resilient aspects in organizations,...

Institutional analysis of rural development (IARD) is characterised by systematic attention given to the institutional dimensions of the rural development process. While different research enquiries have been developed in recent decades, which can be framed by rural development, a systematic...

This paper examines an under explored and integrated organization management strategy issue for the enhancement of the organizational performance. Considering two critical domains namely Human Resource and Organizational Development as theorised by this study is motivated by extend of the...

This study examines the dynamics of digital and green innovation within organizational contexts, focusing on the interplay between innovative work behavior, innovative leadership and the adoption of digital technologies. Survey data were collected from employees working in private sector...

The role and meaning of sustainable development have been recognized in the scientific literature for decades. However, there has recently been a dynamic increase in interest in the subject, which results in numerous, in-depth scientific research and publications with an interdisciplinary...

This study examines the dynamics of digital and green innovation within organizational contexts, focusing on the interplay between innovative work behavior, innovative leadership and the adoption of digital technologies. Survey data were collected from employees working in private sector...

Organizational structures are an important determinant of individual incentives and thus individual motivation in organizations. We study whether their effects on individual motivation go beyond incentives and how they relate to the perceived legitimacy of organizational structure. To this end,...

The motivation behind this paper and the underlying research is to shed light on how companies deal with interdisciplinary innovation activities, especially looking at the development of radical and potentially disruptive innovations. This includes the analysis of methods, processes, and...

This paper examines an under explored and integrated organization management strategy issue for the enhancement of the organizational performance. Considering two critical domains namely Human Resource and Organizational Development as theorised by this study is motivated by extend of the...

Institutional analysis of rural development (IARD) is characterised by systematic attention given to the institutional dimensions of the rural development process. While different research enquiries have been developed in recent decades, which can be framed by rural development, a systematic...

The paper aims to explore how classical and contemporary management theories can be applied to different entities within the sports ecosystem. The core entities-such as clubs, players, fans, and agents- and non-core entities like media, sponsors, and public bodies are examined. Qualitative...