...Stefania Mariano Purpose This study aims to examine current scholarly literature on how managers address competing priorities in organizations. It consolidates existing contributions into an organizing framework to guide future research. Design/methodology/approach A systematic literature...

...Professor Fernando Robles; Gilles Arnaud; Stijn Vanheule Purpose – This paper aims to reflect on how Lacanian psychoanalysis might inform management studies, and discuss limitations and consequences of adopting this particular framework for doing research in organizations. Design/methodology...

... socialization. Locus of control Organizational identification Socialization Organizations Identification Banking Taiwan Organizational socialization refers to the mechanism through which new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, responsibility, and behaviors to obtain...

...Kuldeep Singh There is a popular saying that culture eats strategy for lunch. And this statement aptly summarizes the power of culture for any organization and also points out why culture cannot be ignored. Culture is a powerful tool for leading and managing change for two reasons. One...

... is to use a literature review and two case studies. Findings In this model a company has a competitive advantage if its resources and capabilities are valuable, rare, non‐imitable, organized, and if these resources and capabilities address unmet customer needs in market segments large enough to cover...

... and the way the change is managed. Consequently, the importance of dispositional resistance lies in its ability to influence an organization's readiness for change and to identify the level of resistance it might expect to meet, and thus the approach to change it needs to adopt. Change processes which imply...

... of organizations. The aim of this paper is to achieve an in‐depth understanding of the new environment that has emerged with these developments. Design/methodology/approach The study focuses on the use of social networks and the conception of the corresponding new business models, highlighting the importance...

..., a situation may exist whereby two business units inside the same organisation compete for the same resource to facilitate the execution of two different goals. Also, although co‐operation is a widely researched topic, Chen et al. (1998) contend that there is little conceptual integration...

... on the organizational memory. The purpose of this study is to: define and establish the characteristics of organizational emotional memory; discuss the process of emotional memory in organizations such as how emotional memory can be developed and retrieved, and where it can be stored in organizations; and develop...

... of corporate diversification. Dynamic capabilities Corporate diversification Firm performance Diversification Corporate strategy Organizations Business development Taiwan Upgrading existing capability internally is a way of organic growth (Beaver, 2002), which has the benefit of causal ambiguity...

... network. This openness shown by the firms towards collaboration with other organizations in order to acquire ideas, new materials and knowledge must be offset by the secure protection of the results of the innovation process. Managers must foresee these needs and find ways to safeguard the results...

... possibilities for improving the weighing process. Hans Heerkens can be contacted at: j.m.g.heerkens@utwente.nl © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011 Assessment Decision making Skills Organizations This article deals with a specific aspect of decision‐making; the assessment...

...Jorge A. Vasconcellos e Sá; Fátima Olão; Magda Pereira Purpose Several works have focused on defining an organisation mission. Ansoff, Levitt and Drucker, among others, have made seminal contributions. However, globalisation has brought new challenges and changes, in terms of both new risks...

...David Lamond; Rocky Dwyer; Denise L. Fleck Purpose This paper seeks to suggest that the responsible management of the growth process can prevent the organization from becoming “too big to fail”. Moreover, responsibly managing growth enhances the organizational propensity to experience healthy...

... economic activity manifested in various forms of network organizations began to gain growing force among scholars and managers alike. Network governance as a distinct mode of coordinating and controlling economic activity, which is qualitatively different from either markets or hierarchies (Bradach...

... making during the commercialization process? Institutional theory has been relied on to explain various organizational behaviors (Yiu and Makino, 2002 ; Zhang and Rajagopalan, 2003). The theory attempts to explain why instead of a world of diverse and unique organizations “there is such startling...

... the organisation dance?” We are left with the conception that, given the lived‐in‐world, the totality of a one reality is an unattainable perspective. Paraphrasing from a reading of Sartre (1943) in Atkinson (2007, p. 164) , we might say that: Although I live in and experience this world as others do, I...

... Group Publishing Limited 2007 Knowledge sharing Knowledge management Organizations In 1992 James B. Quinn identified the sharing of knowledge as a crucial value‐driver in organisations because of its unique characteristic compared to other assets of a firm: it grows most – and usually...

... the most work on criminal psychopaths (Deutschman, 2005) and his work is referred to in describing organisational psychopaths below. Clive Roland Boddy can be contacted at: chboddy@tinyonline.co.uk © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Occupational psychology Organizations Ethics...

..., a transformation that will reflect itself in the organization and in society. Research limitations/implications No empirical research is conducted to analyze the importance of the learning type for the orientation to sustainability in companies. Future research may verify this importance. Practical...