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Leveraging innovation knowledge management to create positional advantage in agricultural value chains

Prasad Adhikari, Rajendra; Miles, Morgan P.; Bonney, … - In: Journal of Innovation & Knowledge (JIK) 4 (2019) 2, pp. 115-123

This study employs resource advantage theory to identify how beef cattle value chain actors' resources are translated into the positional advantage and how that then affects their financial performance in an emerging country context. The study tested was designed to understand if: (1) the...

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Transactional capability: Innovation's missing link

Tello-Gamarra, Jorge; Zawislak, Paulo Antônio - In: Journal of Economics, Finance and Administrative Science 18 (2013) 34, pp. 2-8

The topic of innovation as a source of competitive advantage for firms is consolidated in the literature. An innovation …, a question remains in studies into innovation, which is concerned with the reasons why not all firms that develop a … study is the identification of transactional capability as the missing link in innovation. Accordingly, to be innovative, in …

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Estructuras de poder y gobernancia en las organizaciones: El caso de los sordos

Minolli, Cristina Beatriz - 2012

Las organizaciones son sistemas sociales en sí mismos en los cuales el reconocimiento y administración de las estructuras de poder e influencia representan una parte sumamente importante de su gerenciamiento. Por otro lado, las mencionadas estructuras de poder están en directa relación con...

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Obstáculos a la innovación y la creatividad en las organizaciones: Segunda parte : Ser diferente

Minolli, Cristina Beatriz - 2018

El mundo globalizado del Siglo XXI y el avance tecnológico experimentado en los últimos cincuenta años, plantean desafíos importantes a las empresas que buscan mantener o mejor aún incrementar su rentabilidad. La competencia por producto y/o precio se ha vuelto tan feroz, que las...

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The Interplay between Organizational Structure, Culture and Employees’ Socio-Emotional Skills within Their Social Capital

Koohborfardhaghighi, Somayeh; Altmann, Jörn; Heshmati, … - 2022

Organization theorists identify organizational social capital as one of the primary building blocks of a potentially powerful resource for improving organizational performance. However, little is known about the impact of the socio-emotional skills of the employees within their social capital...

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The Role of Organizational Structure in Senior Managers' Selective Information Processing

Junge, Sebastian; Luger, Johannes; Mammen, Jan - In: Journal of Management Studies 60 (2023) 5, pp. 1178-1204

CEOs' perceptions of the environment and the information processing shortcuts (or heuristics) they use to develop these perceptions are important to organizations. We study whether organizational structure, an important channel and filter for the flow of information in organizations, affects...

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Power to the people—And then? A multilevel leadership perspective on organizational decentralization

Huettermann, Hendrik; Berger, Stefan; Reinwald, Max; … - In: Human Resource Management 63 (2024) 2, pp. 333-353

As organizations strive for more flexibility, decentralized decision-making has been at the core of many modern HR approaches. Yet, on a company-wide scale, it remains unclear whether decentralized decision-making structures improve organizational performance. Our study aims to illuminate prior...

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Leaderless organizations: Identifying leadership vacuum in organizations

Ivanov, Sergey; Maritz, Alex - In: Cogent Business & Management 10 (2023) 2, pp. 1-13

Leaders play crucial roles in their enterprises. Most modern organizations today, such as corporations and government departments, have no leaders. About 80% of all organizations have no top structures, and are run by inertia as leaderless organizations. These organizations have pretense-pseudo...

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Contractual and organizational structure with reciprocal agents

Englmaier, Florian; Leider, Stephen - 2008

Empirically, compensation systems generate substantial effort despite weak monetary incentives. We consider reciprocal motivations as a source of incentives. We solve for the optimal contract in the basic principal-agent problem and show that reciprocal motivations and explicit performance-based...

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How to get what you want when you do not know what you want: A model of incentives, organizational structure and learning

Marengo, Luigi; Pasquali, Corrado - 2010

In this paper we present a model of the interplay between learning, incentives and the allocation of decision rights in the context of a generalized agency problem. Within this context, not only actors face conflicting interests but diverging cognitive isionsof the right course of action as...

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