Widening International Entrepreneurship Research addresses several unresolved questions and thus moves forward by acknowledging that future international entrepreneurship research needs to find new ways to further enrich its knowledge. The book presents the results of six studies that explain...

Widening International Entrepreneurship Research addresses several unresolved questions and thus moves forward by acknowledging that future international entrepreneurship research needs to find new ways to further enrich its knowledge. The book presents the results of six studies that explain...

Das Institut für Organisationsökonomik (IO) an der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster ist inzwischen neun Jahre alt. Der 9. Jahresbericht informiert über das neunte Jahr, d. h. über das Wintersemester 2018/2019 und das Sommersemester 2019. Wie in den Vorjahren werden das Institut...

Symbol systems can provide topic-specific languages comprising multimodal grammars and vocabularies. Symbol systems can facilitate mutual knowledge for innovation when people do not already have a common language for effective communication about an innovation. For example, there can be a lack...

This thesis engages with the organizing of participation in participatory art that constitutes the so-called social turn in contemporary visual art. The purpose of the research project is to generate new knowledge about participatory art, in particular, by investigating the organizational...

This book provides new and innovative insights into the field of management and organization inquiry through theory, method, and research. It provides extensive coverage of the 7S structurethat has been so transformational for the field: Storytelling, System, Sustainability, Science, Spirit,...

Die Hervorbringung von Kreativität in der Mode beruht auf einem komplexen Zusammenspiel verschiedener Bedingungen. Judith Nyfeler untersucht die daran beteiligten Akteure samt ihrer spezifischen Organisationsweisen (Routinen, Technologien, Projekte, Kooperationen) und sprachlichen...

The objective of this article is to introduce readers to the emerging research stream on business ecosystems, explicating the novelty and the usefulness of ecosystem-based theorizing, and hoping to pave the way for an influential but cumulative body of knowledge. The key tenets within an...

Für die Sicherung des handelnden Zusammenwirkens in Organisationen sind neben (in-)formellen Strukturen auch die Sicht- und Handlungsweisen der Führungskräfte und ihre gezielte Einflussnahme zentral. Wie Führungskräfte diese Aufgabe ausgestalten, wird bislang jedoch kaum auf institutionelle...

Articles published in the Journal of Organization Design (JOD) from its inception in 2012 until mid-2018 are reviewed and summarized according to their type: research, point of view, translational, case study, research primer, and Organization Zoo. Using multiple assessment criteria, JOD's...

The objective of this article is to introduce readers to the emerging research stream on business ecosystems, explicating the novelty and the usefulness of ecosystem-based theorizing, and hoping to pave the way for an influential but cumulative body of knowledge. The key tenets within an...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss process philosophy's potential contributions to understanding and investigation of innovation processes associated with organizational contexts. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is a theoretical piece that examines the concept of process...

Für die Sicherung des handelnden Zusammenwirkens in Organisationen sind neben (in-)formellen Strukturen auch die Sicht- und Handlungsweisen der Führungskräfte und ihre gezielte Einflussnahme zentral. Wie Führungskräfte diese Aufgabe ausgestalten, wird bislang jedoch kaum auf institutionelle...

Learning management, corporate learning, quality, stakeholder, standardisation. - Quality in corporate learning management is hard to measure since it lacks theoretical foundation and practical frameworks. The dissertation first discovers the six main stakeholders of corporate education and...

This thesis reflects on refugee camps as spaces of organizing and investigates the politics, which are enacted and produced through such. Refugee camps have largely been neglected as sides and sites of organizing within recent studies of organization. This thesis therefore seeks to situate sites...

Despite being widely accepted and applied, maturity models in Information Systems (IS) have been criticized for the lack of theoretical grounding, methodological rigor, empirical validations, and ignorance of multiple and non-linear paths to maturity. This PhD thesis focuses on addressing these...

In the last decade, service design has seen a rapid diffusion, with several service design agencies established globally and commercial organizations willing to adopt it. This quick expansion is mainly due to an increasing focus of organizations on services and customer experience, building also...

The purpose of this thesis is to focus in understanding axiological knowledge in knowledge driven societies which survive thanks to the creation of science and technology and new products and services. The considerations of this thesis are critical to organizations and society at large, because...