This book challenges the widely accepted notion that globalization encourages economic convergence--and, by extension, cultural homogenization--across national borders. A systematic comparison of ...organizational change in Argentina, South Korea, and Spain since 1950 finds that global competition forces countries to exploit their distinctive strengths, resulting in unique development trajectories.
Despite their best efforts, many organizations find it difficult to shake the silo mentality that stands in the way of real strides in performance improvement. Building a New Performance Vision ...addresses this issue head on by arguing that training, human resources, organizational development, quality, information technology, and knowledge management professionals should all be playing on the same HPI team. Each of these functions spends most of its energy promoting individual agendas and not the organization's business and performance needs. The cure for this unhappy state of affairs is the creation of a single, unified HPI process and function that brings together these disparate groups under the banner of shared business goals. Readers are offered a clear path to accomplish this organizational feat through the use of step-by-step instructions, tools, tips, and job aids.
Russian entrepreneurship has faced the biggest-ever challenges in the current millennium. These include globalization contributing to increased competition at domestic and global industrial markets, ...modernization of the Russian economy, increased public and social demands to business, and global financial and economic crisis of 2008 that led to the disruption of global economic relations and the aggravation of business conditions. To be adapted to the above-stated challenges, modern Russian enterprises carry out either internal restructuring suggesting an integration with domestic competitors or counterparties to cement positions on the Russian industrial markets, or cross-border restructuring related to integration with foreign competitors or counterparties to front global industrial markets. Conspicuously, both types pursue marketing goals that highlight the priority of marketing for successful enterprise restructuring. However, current Russian practice of management has proven its underestimated role in restructuring, which reduces its effectiveness. This book contains the original author's view of enterprise restructuring as a specific phenomenon in the modern Russian economy, substantiation of prospects, as well as theoretical and practical recommendations to improve Russian practice of enterprise restructuring management in counterpart to marketing methodology. In Chapter 1, the author determines the essence and types of the reorganization of entrepreneurial structures as specific phenomena in the modern Russian economy. Chapter 2 determines causal relations of the reorganization of entrepreneurial structures. In Chapter 3, the tools for managing the reorganization of entrepreneurial structures are studied. In Chapter 4, the author presents a mechanism for managing the reorganization of entrepreneurial structures that are in use in modern Russia. Chapter 5 analyzes the successful global experience of the reorganization of entrepreneurial structures. In Chapter, 6 consideration is given to the tendencies of the Russian market of mergers and acquisitions. Chapter 7 outlines the perspectives and provides recommendations for increasing the effectiveness of managing the reorganization of entrepreneurial structures in modern Russia based on the marketing methodology.
Digitalisation has had an overwhelming impact on the workplace in recent years, making it more associable, editable, interactive, programmable, traceable, communicable and distributable. But this ...change comes with substantial changes to ways of working. New technologies almost always translate into new work processes, work arrangements, collaborative engagements and thus disrupt the information environment and consolidate equilibria at work.This book aims to bring forward the role of workplace information literacy as a key condition for successful digitalisation or digital transformation in today's workplace. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, it examines the multifaceted role of workplace information literacy in organisational operations and its role in the digitalisation process, taking into account the role and perspectives of employer and employee.The book includes lessons learned from investigating workplace information literacy across very different empirical domains (e.g. a nuclear power plant, an open-source software community, and a university among others). It outlines methodological and conceptual developments for anyone investigating information literacy across the modern workplace undergoing digitalisation, extending the debate on the impact of digitalisation on individuals and organisations. The book will guide researchers interested in the digital workplace by aggregating conceptual, methodological and processual knowledge on the impacts of digitalisation on the contemporary workplace from an information-centered perspective.
This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded ...in a power-distributional view of institutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also over prevailing institutional arrangements. Five empirical essays then bring the general theory to life by evaluating its causal propositions in the context of sustained analyses of specific instances of incremental change. These essays range widely across substantive topics and across times and places, including cases from the United States, Africa, Latin America, and Asia. The book closes with a chapter reflecting on the possibilities for productive exchange in the analysis of change among scholars associated with different theoretical approaches to institutions.
Digitalisation has had an overwhelming impact on the workplace in recent years, making it more associable, editable, interactive, programmable, traceable, communicable and distributable. But this ...change comes with substantial changes to ways of working. New technologies almost always translate into new work processes, work arrangements, collaborative engagements and thus disrupt the information environment and consolidate equilibria at work.
This book aims to bring forward the role of workplace information literacy as a key condition for successful digitalisation or digital transformation in today's workplace. Featuring contributions from leading scholars, it examines the multifaceted role of workplace information literacy in organisational operations and its role in the digitalisation process, taking into account the role and perspectives of employer and employee. The book includes lessons learned from investigating workplace information literacy across very different empirical domains (e.g., a nuclear power plant, an open-source software community, and a university among others). It outlines methodological and conceptual developments for anyone investigating information literacy across the modern workplace undergoing digitalisation, extending the debate on the impact of digitalisation on individuals and organisations. The book will guide researchers interested in the digital workplace by aggregating conceptual, methodological and processual knowledge on the impacts of digitalisation on the contemporary workplace from an information-centered perspective.
Businesses are major contributors to the global problems we face, but they are also well-placed to effect positive change. John Davis offers examples of companies that are taking action and presents ...a framework to help C-suite leaders and executive teams develop their own blueprint for putting societal value at the heart of their business.
The Monograph stands out positively from the items related to change management in the context of entrepreneurial opportunities and flexibility of the organization. The authors attempt to integrate ...retrospective and prognostic approaches, so they not only assess the current status, but also point to challenges for management science. The work has been prepared by people whose authority in management sciences is undisputed. With this book we try to provide the reader with information about miscellaneous parts of life and the social-economical environment. For this purpose, we have invited authors representing the leading scientific research centers in Poland but also specialists from foreign universities.
