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This paper discusses firm-operational innovation processes against the background of conflict and cooperation relations … for an active role of work councils and other interest representations of employees in innovation processes. As a …
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This paper aims to seek what type of innovation and to estimate the impact of social capital on the innovation in the … than half of respondents are innovative producers. Innovation of product and organizational are the important types of … innovation in the bamboo handicraft. Social capital, measured by an index of trust significantly influences the innovation index …
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organization, technology, infrastructures, product design). On the other hand, the capacity of innovation can be perceived by the … great number of which is market by a weak potential of adaptability, innovation and sustainability. It becomes urgent to …
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In Europe, anthropocentric organization models – an updated version of the sociotechnique approach – had their maximum expression in the Swedish model, which came to be known as “uddevalism” or “volvoism”. Several factors were presented as conditioners of this success [1], and some...
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In this paper is analyzed the work organization and the forms of quality control in a robotic welding station in a company of office equipment and metal components manufacturing. The robotic cell is recent and works in two shifts. Quality and production rationalization implied in this firms the...
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The author starts from the thesis that it is especially necessary to manage the production of cash money, taking into consideration and applying the conceptions of modern management. Cash money (metallic and paper) is a specific “product” that is produced according to the needs of monetary...
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The features of innovation, flexibility and change mutually influence one another. Provided that change is perceived as … a feature leading to innovation, flexibility is the feature that enables it. Innovation cannot exist without change but … nonetheless each and every change leads to innovation. Flexibility is a necessary condition but not sufficient for the innovation …
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The purpose of economic reform is to reduce distortions and enhance efficiency. However, when reforms are partial and incremental, individuals and local governments are often able to capture the rent inherent in the gradual transition process. Young (2000) warned that such rent-seeking behavior...
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Abstract External environment of an organization includes a variety of factors, whose existence, influence its behavior and performance. The action of these factors may be direct (for example, the actions of competitors) or indirect (for example, changes in business climate), and external...
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This article aims to evaluate the innovation management capacities of knowledge intensive business services (KIBS) and … KIBS, we applied a questionnaire with results revealing different explanatory variables for KIBS innovation capacities … KIBS innovation capacities. …
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