Modern companies are creating their value through various projects. In this connection project management approaches to smart growing business is developing faster than other managerial techniques; methodology and tools are getting more efficient and supplementing different business areas....

Este informe presenta los resultados obtenidos en un proyecto de investigación, en el que mediante la realización de una ambiciosa encuesta a gran escala sobre las prácticas de empleo de las empresas multinacionales (MNCs) llevada a cabo en España, se ha realizado un estudio comparativo...

If knowledge is to be managed and transferred, it is essential that members of organizations know and agree on where capabilities reside. Few studies, however, have examined the difficulties of evaluating capabilities in large firms. This paper reports an in-depth empirical study of capabilities...

Interruptions have commonly been viewed as negative and as something for managers to control or limit. In this paper, I explore the relationship between interruptions and acquisition of routines---a form of knowledge---by teams. Recent research suggests that interruptions may play an important...

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new, empirically derived typology of plants in the international manufacturing network of multinational companies. This typology is based on the knowledge flows between the plants. In our research, network analysis has been used as a methodology for...

Managing highly skilled employees is extremely complex because of the need to balance the costs and time lags associated with their training against the need to meet demand as quickly as possible. Unlike previous approaches to this problem in the staffing literature, this paper develops an...

A model is introduced to guide a profit maximizing firm in its quest to enhance performance through process change. The key benefit sought from process change is a long term increase in effective capacity. However, realizing success from process change is not trivial. First, while process change...

By using a qualitative research approach and based on content analysis of scientific articles which consider “foreign subsidiary” as “Centre of Excellence” by multinational companies in the USA, Canada and Europe, this paper tries to explore “Centre of Excellence” concept by trying...

Knowledge management (KM) involves thorough consideration for the relationship between the employees and their management. This paper specifically describes the importance of KM in the development of health care sector. This research paper is organized into four major sections;. The first one...

Purpose – This study aims to examine the effect of organizational relationship style (employees' relationships with colleagues, supervisors, and the organization) on the sharing of knowledge in high-tech companies; it goes on to determine which particular relationship style is the most...