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  • Individuality of small railway enterprises after reorganization
    Rosi, Bojan ; Mulej, Matjaž
    The Slovene economy is working hard to prepare for entering the European Union and for competing in the demanding global market. One related issue is the comparability of the organised Slovene ... enterprises and its impact over their potential business relations. The latter must have their basis on an equal-footed interdependent partnership, which allows both to maintain the identity of the parts entering the partnership and forming the identity of this newly emerging whole. Our research on problems of business association shows us, that it is time to break the traditional hierarchical relations to pay more attention to network relations. Holistic and up-to-date modern organizational theories maintain that efficiency and effectiveness of forming a new functional entity from parts may be better and more rational, if the problem is tackled on a holistic basis and with a soft systems approach. In this process, principles of identity and indiscrimination of the partnering parts that enter the entity - enterprises or other organizations trying to assure their own further existence in the turbulent global market by association - are crucial. Unfortunately, very often the associating units lose their identity in the larger business systems. In the case of Slovene railway maintenance services the starting points and policy were well defined on paper, but anyway some partners came to be subordinated. The problem lies in the newly emerging shared interest of uniting units and the related strategy of associating and working together. They should be harmonized to fit all partners, and produce a new synergy that is more than a sum of individual parts and their business policies. At the same time all partners need to be assured (nearly) equal conditions of identity chances of individual and shared evolution. In reality, subordination occurs, because of the old hierarchical dependence, professional skills are not allowed, innovation is slowed down; development is being restricted, organizational culture is changing, etc. The background is in different levels of technological advancement, in organizational cultures, questionable attempts to save the less advanced ones at the detriment of the better ones etc., thus diminishing the competitiveness as the competitive pressure. Thus, integration of all partners into the international transport flow needs new solutions. We suggest the application of network thinking (vernetztes Denken) rather than hierarchical relations.
    Vir: Problems of individual emergence : proceedings of a Conference held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 16-20 April, 2001 (Str. 405-422)
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci
    Leto - 2007
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 11548182

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