Several sectors within Information and Communication Technology demonstrate a shift from purely market-based selection of standards or purely negotiated selection of standards to hybrid selection processes, where both market competition and negotiation play a role. Negotiated standard setting...

This paper investigates the role of the organization structure in process-based organizations. We argue that companies cannot be designed upon organizational processes only or that process management can be simply imposed as an additional structural dimension on top of the existing functional or...

Paper presented to the fourth EMOT-workshop, theme 1, Economic performance outco- 1 mes in Europe, Berlin, January 30-February 1, 1997 This paper discusses performance characteristics and differences at three levels: at sector, firm and top management level. First, it explores the extent to...

In het Structuurplan Vlaanderen wordt uitgegaan van de notie "Vlaamse Ruit", die op termijn een stedelijk netwerk op internationaal niveau zou moeten worden. Concreet gaat het om de ruit Antwerpen, Gent, Brussel en Leuven. De Vlaamse Ruit bevat de grootstedelijke gebieden Brussel, Antwerpen en...

Two antagonistic tendencies in the way work is organized can be observed in Europe and the North-American continent. First, there is the growing tendency toward more efficient and flexible modes of organizing by way of a clear (re)distribution of authority. At the other hand, the importance of...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a theoretical and empirical review of the literature on top management composition. This research is theoretically inspired by the old tradition of group dynamics research and later insights into the effects managers have in shaping the course and fates of...

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This paper merges two theoretical perspectives in a mathematical game model: industrial organization on the one hand, which basically is the economic theory of market competition and firm strategies, and organizational ecology on the other, which is a major sociological tradition that studies...

Werkloosheid vormt een van de grootste problemen van de westerse samenleving, maar is tegelijkertijd moeilijk met behulp van theorieën te verklaren. Dit artikel behandelt in dit verband de noodzaak tot institutionele vernieuwing in buurten, wijken en eventueel deelgemeenten. De volgende vraag...

Het voorwerp van onderzoek van de wiskundige theorie van niet-lineaire dynamica - bekend geworden onder de naam chaostheorie - is het modelleren en begrijpen van turbulentie. De vaststelling dat het economische leven alsmaar dynamischer en onzekerder wordt, heeft vele economen doen grijpen naar...