In today’s knowledge-based economy, the competitiveness of enterprizes and the quality of work life are directly tied to the ability to effectively create and share knowledge both within and across organizations. The literature about knowledge management distinguishes two main aspects to enable knowledge sharing, i.e. organizational and technical aspects. In this paper the SWAP-environment1 is ...

This article presents the results of a study conducted in two phases within a single industry context. The first phase involved comparative case studies to ground the applicability of the resource-based view of the firm within the domain of environmental responsiveness. The second phase involved testing the relationships observed during the case studies through a mail survey. It was found that ...

With the increasing globalization of economy and consequent increasing in the inter and intra organizational competitiveness, the role of groups in organizations and businesses achieve greater significance. The work, as well as the responsibility involved to reach a decision, is distributed among group members, which may be distributed geographically and may cooperate in an asynchronous way. Th...

Some consulting firms are implementing processes and technologies that transform individual experience into organizational knowledge, preserve it, and make it available to their employees. Advocates of knowledge management believe that these practices accelerate collective learning, improve competitiveness, and facilitate response to market changes. This paper uses a systems approach to underst...

The presentations offer administrative, faculty and staff perspectives on how academic and background diversity among faculty and staff enhances competitiveness, creative approaches to organizational structures, and effectiveness in recruitment and retention. Panel Title: Funders Panel Organizer: Lorna Peterson, University at Buffalo Moderator: Mary Stansbury, Denver Panelist:  Kevin Cherry, ...

Learning in organizations, and the competence the organization thereby obtains for performing its core tasks, has come into ever sharper focus when attempts have been made to explain the degree of competitiveness of companies. Much learning takes place when people interact, converse, or co-act. In their research, the current authors have found themselves in need of a new concept, relatonic, tha...

It is widely agreed that nowadays knowledge and competencies are the key productive factors and organizational capability for continuous learning, development and renewal has become the main driver of competitiveness. Thus organizations increasingly aim to develop their capabilities for continuous learning. In this paper we explore the role of measurement in enabling continuous organizational l...

Organizational development is a vital tool in planning and managing the growth expansion of an enterprise or business. The analysis process used to determine rate at which business can grow expand healthily. result these determinations change enterprise's plan combined with recommendations for redirecting company's resources. These include all resources, from financial human Another area where ...

Innovation is an important source of competitiveness and is studied extensively by both the academicians and the practitioners particularly in the last decades. This study is based on the results of an exploratory study conducted in the Northern Marmara region of Turkey covering 184 manufacturing firms. A model is developed to determine the determinants of innovativeness and data is gathered th...

This paper develops a framework of analysis of the dialectical relationship between the structure and capabilities of the firm and the competitive environment within which it operates in order to identify the key factors of corporate competitiveness. The nodal concept of this framework is “organizational capital” which denotes synergistic processes between 1) technological and financial corpora...