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Mikko Moilanen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • creativity and implementations of new ideas do Organisational structure work environment and gender matter
    International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, 2013
    Co-Authors: Lene Foss, Kristin Woll, Mikko Moilanen
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    Purpose – This paper uses a combination of Organisation Theory, gender Theory and the work environment to study the generation and implementation of new ideas in Organisations. How do employees' perceptions of Organisational structure and the work environment affect idea generation and implementation, and how does gender moderate this relationship? Design/methodology/approach – The study develops and tests a structural equation model using data from a survey of a large Norwegian energy corporation. Survey items are measured using five-point scales and show good internal consistency levels. Exploratory factor analyses are used to ensure internal consistency, and confirmatory factor analyses are used to assess the fit of the model. Convergent and discriminant validity tests are also performed. Common method bias and invariance are evaluated across the female and male samples. Findings – The theoretical model had a better fit for the male sample than the female sample, indicating that men's innovations were ...

Elisa Perin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Organisation design strategies for mass customisation: An information-processing-view perspective.
    International Journal of Production Research, 2011
    Co-Authors: Alessio Trentin, Cipriano Forza, Elisa Perin
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    The need to transform the Organisation for mass customisation has long been recognised in literature, but the discussion has largely relied on anecdotal evidence or case studies and has limitedly taken advantage of insights from Organisation Theory. In this paper, we draw on Organisational information-processing Theory to develop solid theoretical links between mass customisation capability and four Organisation design strategies aimed at either increasing an Organisation's information-processing capacity or decreasing its information-processing needs. We then test the hypothesized relationships using a sample of 238 manufacturing plants from three industries and eight countries and find that mass customisation capability is positively related to self-containment of tasks, environmental management, and use of lateral relations. We conclude by discussing implications of our results for both research and practice.

Jarle Trondal - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • integrating nascent Organisations on the settlement of the european external action service
    Journal of European Integration, 2017
    Co-Authors: Marianne Riddervold, Jarle Trondal
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    AbstractThis study shows how the EU’s new Common Foreign and Security policy (CFSP) administration – the European External Action Service (EEAS) – experienced early Organisational settlement. We find that the EEAS acts relatively independently from member-state governments, suggesting administrative autonomy. It is also relatively integrated into the Commission structure, suggesting inter-institutional integration of sub-units in the two institutions. Important lessons can be learned. For Organisation Theory: Firstly, nascent Organisations are likely to experience some degree of ‘settlement’ after birth by establishing ties towards Organisations from which they originate. Secondly, settlement is influenced by pre-existing Organisational capacity and recent Organisational history. For the CFSP literature: Firstly, the CFSP has indeed developed beyond intergovernmental cooperation; we might be witnessing a ‘normalisation’ or ‘communitarisation’ of CFSP policy- processes. Secondly, cooperation and further in...

Maurice Yolles - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Understanding Organisational culture as a trait Theory
    European J. of International Management, 2012
    Co-Authors: Gerhard Fink, Daniel Dauber, Maurice Yolles
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    A generic model of Organisational culture is developed, which distinguishes between the internal environment (Organisational culture, strategy, structure and operations) and external environment (legitimisation environment and task environment) of an Organisation and suggests a set of five bipolar traits to characterise the normative personality characteristics of the Organisation. The presented generic model of Organisational culture integrates so far separate classes of Organisation Theory and has the potential to serve as a basis for the identification of types of corporate culture and their dysfunctions.

  • Understanding Organisational Culture as a Trait Theory
    SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
    Co-Authors: Gerhard Fink, Daniel Dauber, Maurice Yolles
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    This paper aims at an Organisational culture Theory redefining existing concepts of Organisational or corporate culture dimensions. It does this by embracing a new concept of Organisational culture that fits with thematic classes of Organisation Theory. Knowledge cybernetics will be used to show the interconnections (interaction processes) between thematic fields of Organisation Theory following Hatch and Cunliffe (2006). Its perspective is that social collectives have normative collective minds that can be explored in terms of their social psychological processes, and normative personalities. In concert with Bandura's concept of collective agency, that of "normative personality" is integrated into Organisational context and Piaget's notions of how the mind operates are applied to the Organisation. Organisational culture manifests itself by different emphasis given to different types of the interconnections interactions between the Organisation and its environments and different emphasis on different types of information and knowledge flows within the Organisation. The paper offers a theoretical construct exploring Organisational culture from the perspective of thematic fields of Organisation Theory. It requires further elaboration and development of a questionnaire to be tested in different contexts and samples. It has the capacity to provide pragmatic meaning in case studies and may contribute to identification of dysfunctions of information and knowledge management in Organisations. This is the first approach to take a view from the thematic fields of Organisation Theory on research into Organisational culture by applying knowledge cybernetics.

Stefano Biazzo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Process mapping techniques and Organisational analysis: Lessons from sociotechnical system Theory
    Business Process Management Journal, 2002
    Co-Authors: Stefano Biazzo
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    Examines the problems, and the limitations, of the use of process mapping techniques in the light of sociotechnical experience in systems analysis. To do this, first, the fundamental characteristics of the various process mapping techniques are illustrated, highlighting how these can be characterised by a conception of business processes based on the notion of “technology” which has been developed within modernist Organisation Theory. Then, the contribution of sociotechnical Theory to office work analysis and design is presented, with particular reference to the work of Calvin Pava on the relationship between the method of analysis and the nature of work. Concludes with some reflections on the residual role attributed to social aspects within process mapping and on the problem of artificial rationality and linearity linked to an acritical use of modelling languages.