Background: The EFQM Model, launched by the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM), is widely adopted by transforming organizations. Conducting research with an academic perspective on these models is crucial to comprehend their potential fully. While Contingency Theory has not yet...

This study explored how volunteer management is adapted to the specific context of a nonprofit organization (NPO). Through a participatory autoethnographic approach in Huellas Foundation, a Colombian NPO that supports its mission operation in volunteer action, it examined how management...

This paper examines the association between environmental uncertainty, accounting information relevance, and organizational performance. From a contingency approach, this paper attempts to contribute to a stream of research that investigates the relationship between accounting information...

The purpose of this research is to verify interdependencies among service innovation, structural autonomy, performance measurement systems, and organizational outcomes in a new organizational context. The relationships between these variables that structure organizational design have been...

The objective of this research is to analyze the factors that influence the profitability of Micro and Small Enterprises in Peru, in the face of the problems derived from Covid-19, with the purpose of contributing to the literature on the study of business behavior during crises, from the...

Purpose: Drawing upon contingency theory, this study aims to investigate the relationship between risk management practices (RMPs), ethical climate (EC), and organizational performance (OP) in public organizations within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Specifically, the study explores the...

Purpose: Drawing upon contingency theory, this study aims to investigate the relationship between risk management practices (RMPs), ethical climate (EC), and organizational performance (OP) in public organizations within the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Specifically, the study explores the...

The objective of this research is to analyze the factors that influence the profitability of Micro and Small Enterprises in Peru, in the face of the problems derived from Covid-19, with the purpose of contributing to the literature on the study of business behavior during crises, from the...

This study investigates how organizational contingency factors, namely company size, environmental uncertainty, technological capacity, and organizational structure, affect the design and effectiveness of management control systems (MCS) in Moroccan industrial companies. Drawing on contingency...

Purpose This study analyzes the performance implications of adopting blockchain to support supply chain business processes. The technology holds as many promises as implementation challenges, so interest in its impact on operational performance has grown steadily over the last few years....

Sales and operations planning (S&OP) became a relevant managerial topic for academics and practitioners with a growing literature body and implementation cases in the industry. However, S&OP has been analysed mostly in stable environments, with few implications for uncertain environments. With...

This study explores the relationship between public sector project managers and their organizations' formal project management processes. Utilizing Heidegger's concept of "practical comportment," we develop the "Pragmatic Comportment Compass," which identifies four primary modes of this...

Purpose: The shop-floor organization under lean production (LP) has been hotly debated for about three decades. As this organization concept leaves considerable room for interpretation, the content of lean-inspired changes can vary widely. This paper pleads for a contingency view of how LP is...

The Brazilian public administration has adopted risk management as a good governance practice. Its implementation is mandatory for all bodies and entities of the Federal Executive Branch, with wide dissemination of regulations and risk management manuals covering other federal powers and levels....

This is the second publication in a series of three interrelated discussion papers produced by Ipea on the theme of relevance and implementation of risk management (RM). The series began with the title Competência Versus Incerteza: atitudes pessoais e percepção sobre gestão de riscos no...

Do “flat” egalitarian or hierarchical structures lead to higher organizational resilience against unexpected adversities such as supply chain crises, technological disruptions, and pandem- ics? The learning and unlearning perspective asserts that the time of adversity and its duration are...

The UK government is promoting the Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) by presumption in favour due to outperforming traditional methods in meeting key industry goals. Despite the public construction sector’s recognition of the benefits, MMC uptake across this influential purchasing power is...