Today's internet is shaped largely by privately operated platforms of various kinds. This paper asks how the various commercially operated communication, market, consumption and service platforms can be grasped as a distinct organizational form of enterprise. To this end, we make a basic...

This research aims to determine factors affecting and the level of their influence on organizational structure, operating mechanism and audit quality in the Vietnamese market. In this paper, the methodology used by the authors is mixed method. Combination of the qualitative research method and...

New competitive and environmental challenges have fostered renewed attention towards organizational design. This scenario calls for a significant return to organizational design studies that embrace a holistic approach, especially those focusing on the simultaneous interaction of multiple design...

This paper, situated against the growing body of work that argues that adequate state capacity and robust public institutions are key for socio-economic development, examines the leading and supporting institutions of secondary education in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Rajasthan....

Scholars over the past two decades have shed significant light on employee pro-social rule-breaking behaviors. Yet, the organizational and contextual variables and their influence on these behaviors are not properly considered. This paper focuses on frontline pro-social rule breaking and...

One of the challenges for international companies is to manage multicultural environments effectively. Cultural intelligence (CQ) is a soft skill required of the leaders of organizations working in cross-cultural contexts to be able to communicate effectively in such environments. On the other...

The design of corporate headquarters (CHQ) is a specialist and important area of organization design. It is important because of the influence that a CHQ has over the portfolio of businesses it owns. A good CHQ can improve the performance of its businesses. A bad CHQ causes its businesses to...

When members of an organization share communication codes, coordination across subunits is easier. But if groups interact separately, they will each develop a specialized code. This paper asks: Can organizations shape how people interact in order to create shared communication codes? What kinds...

GitLab is a software company that works "all remote" at the scale of more than 1000 employees located in more than 60 countries. GitLab has no physical office and its employees can work from anywhere they choose. Any step of the organizational life of a GitLab employee (e.g., hiring, onboarding...

Successfully developing a new product, service, or production process for commercial purposes involves complex and dynamic changes, and therefore requires an organizational climate that fosters innovation. In this sense, the means by which knowledge is created and exploited in the firm...

This paper, situated against the growing body of work that argues that adequate state capacity and robust public institutions are key for socio-economic development, examines the leading and supporting institutions of secondary education in two Indian states, Andhra Pradesh (AP) and Rajasthan....

Blockchain (distributed ledger technology) is an institutional technology that allows trust to be manufactured instead of being earned. Trust is an important component of business and trade and has previously been subsumed into information costs. It is only now that the importance of trust is...

This paper is the first to consider all three important organizational forms, such as industrial diversification, global diversification, and geographic dispersion, in the empirical framework to find out which types of diversification do matter for the contracting of bank loans. I find that, on...

Organizations are hierarchies with leaders at the top. Why do we have leaders instead of an algorithm making decisions? The theory of the firm recognizes benefits to centralizing authority but these organizational benefits from hierarchy have not been clearly separated from the specific...

Scholars over the past two decades have shed significant light on employee pro-social rule-breaking behaviors. Yet, the organizational and contextual variables and their influence on these behaviors are not properly considered. This paper focuses on frontline pro-social rule breaking and...

One of the challenges for international companies is to manage multicultural environments effectively. Cultural intelligence (CQ) is a soft skill required of the leaders of organizations working in cross-cultural contexts to be able to communicate effectively in such environments. On the other...

Despite recognizing the importance of external dynamics to employee organizational identification, this factor is under explored in today's evermore interdependent organizations. We theorize how organizational identification can be influenced by an employer's horizontal partnerships with...

When members of an organization share communication codes, coordination across subunits is easier. But if groups interact separately, they will each develop a specialized code. This paper asks: Can organizations shape how people interact in order to create shared communication codes? What kinds...

Die Zukunftsfähigkeit von Unternehmen hängt vor allem davon ab, Kundenloyalität zu fördern und neue Kunden zu gewinnen. Jack Welch propagierte vor mehr als drei Jahrzehnten bereits, dass der Kunde das Gehalt der Mitarbeiter bezahlt und schrieb dies auch auf jeden Gehaltsscheck. Was...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to analyze the organizational structure and R&D management alignment in an internationalized public company. Design/methodology/approach - The authors performed a descriptive qualitative research using the single case method of EMBRAPA. Findings - The...

We examine how heterogeneity in organizational structure affects private firm earnings quality in the European Union. Organizational structure refers to whether the firm is organized as a single legal entity (standalone) or as a business group. Private firms can be organized either way, while...