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Concurrent Engineering is the latest buzzterm for bringing products to market faster. This paper explores how a distributed computing environment can enable concurrent engineering. The following topics are covered: • Definition of concurrent engineering and how it applies to non-technical as well as technical companies. • Case studies of companies who have harnessed their distributed computing ...

The Skill Bias Effect of Technological and Organisational Change: Evidence and Policy Implications Previous empirical literature has shown that technological change can be considered the main cause of the skill bias (increase in the number of highly skilled workers) exhibited by manufacturing employment in developed countries over the last decades. However, recent papers have also introduced th...

In understanding strategic organisational transformation, in an effort to secure long-term competitive advantage, this paper explains the necessity of ! the role of learning, in ensuring an organisation’s ability to successfully transform itself into a learning organisation; focussing on ! the importance of an effective leadership style, enabling business to strategically align with the ability...

This paper raises questions about the links between gender and organisational changes. The empirical base for the discussion is a qualitative study of the effects of organisational changes in the pulp and paper industry, the electronics industry, the food industry and the laundry industry in Sweden during the mid-1990s. At the studied companies, restoration responses in the work organisations b...

Purpose In this paper we describe 'what happened' with round two of the implementation of Learning 2.0 with a large and diverse group of library staff at Edith Cowan University Library during 2007 – 8. Design/methodology/approach In a previous paper we reported on our study of the suitability of the 23 Things Learning 2.0 program for a small group of early adopters in the ECU Library. This foll...

This paper presents an in-depth longitudinal analysis of an organisational change process at Technico, a large European Company. The central question is the following: is there a "dominant" paradigmatic approach enabling to understand change processes or is there a need for adopting a multi-paradigmatic view to improve our understanding? The intent was to refrain from adopting an a priori conce...