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Formal and informal organization structure have been described as “opposing poles of a duality”—one which has yet to be fully resolved. The aim of this paper is to detail an approach to treating both structures in a comparable way, an... more

Formal and informal organization structure have been described as “opposing poles of a duality”—one which has yet to be fully resolved. The aim of this paper is to detail an approach to treating both structures in a comparable way, an approach that explicitly recognizes core and underlying commonalties. Two distinct analytical strategies are employed to this end. The first involves a detailed comparison and contrast of selected and relevant structural dimensions drawn from the two research streams. The second strategy involves the application of these dimensions to the study of network graphs of both the formal and informal structures of the same organization at the same point in time.

Background: This study aims to determine the impact of human resource management (HRM) practices on supply chain management (SCM) in garment manufacturing firms. Methods: This study found that garment manufacturing firms perform moderate... more

Background: This study aims to determine the impact of human resource management (HRM) practices on supply chain management (SCM) in garment manufacturing firms. Methods: This study found that garment manufacturing firms perform moderate level of HRM which have an impact on Supply chain Management (SCM).There is a correlation between HRM practices that proactively contributes in supply chain success. Training, an important HRM practise contributes greater to SCM success. A two way approach was followed to collect Data which was from research papers and garment manufacturing firms. A Questionnaire was prepared which was filled by middle level managers of garment industry in order to know their perception as well as to understand the existing HRM practices which have or can have an impact on SCM.

Organizational theories frequently rely on notions of sharing and dependence among organizational participants, but researchers usually focus on characteristics of the actors themselves instead of the relational patterns among the actors.... more

Organizational theories frequently rely on notions of sharing and dependence among organizational participants, but researchers usually focus on characteristics of the actors themselves instead of the relational patterns among the actors. Loose coupling is one conceptual tool that emphasizes relational patterns. Loose coupling, however, is an abstract metaphor that is simultaneously fertile and ambiguous. This paper develops a rigorous and comprehensive framework that sharpens the theoretical contributions of loose coupling to our understanding of structural relationships. Characteristics of loose coupling capture some important and underexplored features of multidimensional fit and interdependence in organizations. The proposed framework clarifies these theoretical contributions of loose coupling with concepts and equations modified from network analysis. Testable hypotheses are proposed with respect to three key independent variables that may affect patterns of coupling: organization strategy, technology, and environmental turbulence. Additional hypotheses are advanced with respect to the use of the multidimensional approach to loose coupling in studying new organizational forms. Initial psychometric and empirical evidence are presented.

Over the years, Information Technology (IT) has struggled with how to create an effective structure and processes. It is our main thesis that if organizations focused more on implementing a sound IT governance strategy, it might help... more

Over the years, Information Technology (IT) has struggled with how to create an effective structure and processes. It is our main thesis that if organizations focused more on implementing a sound IT governance strategy, it might help senior executives to manage not only the IT-related activities, but also the perceptions between IT and the rest of the organization, and, in doing so, foster a more successful IT organization. Using six case studies conducted within the oil and gas industry, we explore differences in perceptions toward IT and in the organization of IT activities. Using an Extended Platform Logic Perspective, we note differences and similarities between the firms, with respect to IT capabilities, relational and integration mechanisms, measures of success, and relationships with the business units. Our results suggest that our colleagues-in-practice have evolved from focusing on one-way architectures within a centralization/decentralization context toward a two-way relat...

L’article retrace l’histoire des associations professionnelles dans le milieu du livre au Québec. La création de tels organismes n’est jamais due au hasard. Elle est une réponse à des besoins collectifs de défense et de promotion des... more

L’article retrace l’histoire des associations professionnelles dans le milieu du livre au Québec. La création de tels organismes n’est jamais due au hasard. Elle est une réponse à des besoins collectifs de défense et de promotion des métiers qui ont atteint un certain degré de spécialisation. L’étude des regroupements d’auteurs, d’éditeurs et de libraires soulève dès lors la question plus générale mais tout aussi fondamentale de la professionnalisation des métiers du livre au Québec.

Purpose – This study aims to refocus the analysis of global political economies using concepts from studies on Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) to track Taiwan’s rise in the Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) industry.... more

Purpose – This study aims to refocus the analysis of global political economies using concepts from studies on Varieties of Capitalism (VoC) to track Taiwan’s rise in the Thin Film Transistor Liquid Crystal Display (TFT-LCD) industry. Taiwanese electronics firms began to outpace their competitors from Japan in TFT-LCD industry’s competition from about the year 2000. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on depth interviews and analysis of secondary source material, newspaper and magazine. Findings – A time factor that helps determine advantage and/or disadvantage of high-tech industry in Japan and Taiwan. Stable organizational structure and less talent mobility in the Japanese TFT-LCD firms may well have been an advantage initially in the transformation process from US firms’ experimental technologies to tacit mass production technologies, but proved to be a disadvantage in the subsequent competition with more mobile talent in Taiwanese firms eager to standardize mass production tec...

Glownym celem opracowania jest analiza uwarunkowan mozliwości usprawniania procesow w organizacji. Początkowe fragmenty pracy poświecono analizie teoretycznej uwarunkowan zarządzania procesami i jego powiązania z zarządzaniem projektami.... more

Glownym celem opracowania jest analiza uwarunkowan mozliwości usprawniania procesow w organizacji. Początkowe fragmenty pracy poświecono analizie teoretycznej uwarunkowan zarządzania procesami i jego powiązania z zarządzaniem projektami. Nastepnie przedstawiono zalozenia badania wplywu struktury i kultury organizacyjnej na mozliwości zastosowan zarządzania procesami biznesowymi. Weryfikacja rozwazan teoretycznych oraz zalozen badawczych zawarta jest w ostatniej cześci artykulu, przedstawiającej wyniki wstepne uzyskanych badan oraz wynikające z nich wnioski. (abstrakt oryginalny)

"Organization is a collection of people who are formally united agreed to achieve the same goals. The organization effectiveness using the competing values approach are divided into 4 models / quadrant. To achieve goals the organization... more

For the past half-century, the study of organizations has been an active area within sociology. I provide an overview of the emergence of this specialty during the second half of the twentieth century, its relation to the larger field of... more

For the past half-century, the study of organizations has been an active area within sociology. I provide an overview of the emergence of this specialty during the second half of the twentieth century, its relation to the larger field of organization studies, and the important theoretical advances associated with the adoption of an open system framework during the 1960s. Among the recent trends I describe are changes in our conceptions of organization boundaries, strategies, and controls, and the beginning of a shift from an entity-based to a process-based view of organization. Evidence of success—the number of sociologists now employed in professional schools—simultaneously raises concerns about the source of future organizational sociologists.

The paper show the relationship between firm-specific-advantages (FSA) and how these can aid gaining an organization’s competitive edge in the present turbulent business environment. These firm specific advantages FSAs include Human... more

The paper show the relationship between firm-specific-advantages (FSA) and how these can aid gaining an organization’s competitive edge in the present turbulent business environment. These firm specific advantages FSAs include Human Capital, Organization Culture, and Organization Structure (Verbeke 2009) and how these can lead towards organizational edge, and to provide a conceptual framework for the analysis of human capital management in learning organizations. Discourse on competitive advantage is of wide prevalence, clear definitions are rare and it is often used interchangeably with concepts like distinctive competence (Day and Wensley, 1988). Advantage is a relative concept (Hu, 1995; Kay, 1993), only meaningful when compared to another entity or set of entities. A competitive advantage, then, is an advantage one firm has over a competitor or group of competitors in a given market, strategic group or industry (Kay, 1993) and this Firm-Specific Advantages is discussed in this p...

Robert H. Chenhall Professor of Accounting Monash University Application of contingency frameworks to management accounting research co=enced in the mid 1970s and dominated organizational level research throughout the 1980s. Despite this... more

Robert H. Chenhall Professor of Accounting Monash University Application of contingency frameworks to management accounting research co=enced in the mid 1970s and dominated organizational level research throughout the 1980s. Despite this popularity there have been persistent criticisms directed at issues of theory and method. This paper reviews developments in contingency style research over the past decade and attempts to provide support for an emergent contingency framework for the design of management accounting systems OiL~S). This framework includes characteristics of "'1.""S and organizational effectiveness, and the contextual variables of external environment, technology, organizational structure, size, strategy, and organizational culture. Evidence on the effect of these variables acting singly and in combination is examined. The paper discusses concerns with theory development and evaluates the methods that have been applied within empirical studies. Dire...