While there has recently been an increased interest in urban and regional transitions to sustainability, there are little profound insights about the emergence, design and enforcement of regional transition paths to sustainability (RTPS). The latter are characterized by organizational and...

This work aims to analyze the organizational change that has taken the Cooperative Society of Fishing Production "The Patole", S.C. of R.L. de C.V. It is assumed that as a result of having implemented systems theory, it has improved its organizational development and thus fulfillment of its...

Taxes levied on production processes (e.g. VAT), are today a very important source of government revenues in developed economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate in perfectly competitive markets. These theories...

Dieses Open Access-Buch gibt eine Einführung in die Grundlagen der digitalen Transformation. Es werden aktuelle technologische Trends sowie Auswirkungen auf den Wettbewerb und die Geschäftsmodellentwicklung erläutert. Außerdem werden anhand empirischer Umfragen sowie Fallstudien aus der...

In dieser Untersuchung werden mit der Logistik und dem wirtschaftlichen Wettbewerb zwei Themenfelder miteinander verknüpft, welche innerhalb der ökonomischen Theorie bislang isoliert voneinander betrachtet wurden und noch immer werden. Hauptzielsetzung der Arbeit ist es zu zeigen, dass...

Change is crucial for organizations in growing, highly competitive business environments. Theories of change describe the effectiveness with which organizations are able to modify their strategies, processes, and structures. The action research model, the positive model, and Lewin's change model...

Angesichts der wachsenden Bedeutung von Informationen als strategischer Erfolgsfaktor hat die strategische Informationssystemplanung neben der Unterstützung der Unternehmungsstrategie auch die Aufgabe, der Unternehmung neue Wettbewerbspotentiale zu erschließen. Die Einrichtung einer geeigneten...

In this paper, we develop a simple general-equilibrium trade model in which heterogeneous workers make an investment decision in acquiring advanced managerial skills and choose their optimal effort level based on their own individual organizational beliefs and CEOś managerial vision. In doing...

Modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been proliferating through the entire business sector over recent decades. This increasing digitalization is having a substantial impact on economic activity and is continuously changing the nature of production processes and our...

This article presents an original conceptual framework for the strategic management of intellectual capital assets in software development companies. The framework is based on Lewin's Force Field Analysis. The framework makes it possible to assess software company managers' opinions regarding...

In this edition of the organizational zoo series, we take a closer look at an interesting organization design case-GitHub, a software company from California. Similar to Valve, the subject of the previous article in the series (Puranam and Håkonsson, J Organ Design 4: 2-4, 2015) GitHub is used...

Der technologische Wandel stellt Organisationen vor die Herausforderung, Innovationen möglichst schnell produktiv zu nutzen und damit einen Wettbewerbsvorteil zu erzielen. Der Erfolg der Technologieeinführung hängt stark mit der Schaffung von Akzeptanz bei den Mitarbeitern zusammen....

This article addresses how top management leadership behaviors matter in innovative interventions in organizations. A comparison of six cases of artistic interventions in four countries reveals that lack of visible top management support and sense-making orientation during and after the process...