{"title":"Corporate university edification in knowledge society","authors":"N. Baporikar","doi":"10.1504/IJSCM.2014.060258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSCM.2014.060258","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years the number and visibility of training and development initiatives within multinational corporations have increased, yet empirical analyses of corporate universities remain rare. In this paper, through existing literature survey and contextual analysis, an attempt is made to understand role of corporate universities edification in knowledge society. In 40 years, the learning and development function within corporations based in the USA, Japan and Europe has become increasingly mission-critical, sophisticated and centralised. This trend is now accelerating in the rest of Asia and the Middle East. Corporations such as Infosys in India, Huawei in China, Singapore Airlines in Singapore and Etisalat in the United Arab Emirates have well-established corporate universities. Corporate university initiatives are located within the organisational world that has generated them, and in particular recent managerial discourses of human resource management, knowledge management and the ‘learning organisation’. Lastly, corporate universities’ potential future is also debated upon.","PeriodicalId":260900,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Change Management","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116926002","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public services in Chinese regions: a case of cultural provision","authors":"Yanxin Zhu, Libo Zhao, Yanshuo Zhu","doi":"10.1504/IJSCM.2013.057558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSCM.2013.057558","url":null,"abstract":"This study focuses on the performance of public cultural services of the 31 regions in China based on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) method. The regional relative efficiency and scale efficiency are analysed by using the public cultural inputs and outputs data of 31 regions in 2010, the public cultural services efficiency of the whole country is calculated and analysed, the efficiency of various regions is classified and compared, and their characteristics and causes are discussed. The study shows: (a) at the national level, the investment on public cultural services needs to be further increased and the production capacity needs to be expanded; (b) basic services in western regions should be strengthened to narrow the gap between western regions and eastern regions in terms of the performance of public cultural services; (c) the developed regions of cultural industry should further enhance their supply capacity of public culture and provide more products, especially the performance activities of artisti...","PeriodicalId":260900,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Change Management","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122714492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guanxi: the evolutionary process of management in China","authors":"R. Berger, Ram Herstein, Y. Mitki","doi":"10.1504/IJSCM.2013.057554","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSCM.2013.057554","url":null,"abstract":"As China becomes increasingly important to the global economy, it becomes increasingly prudent to understand the mindset of the Chinese manager. Recognising the significant impact of guanxi and its influence on management in China is important for Western firms. The paper illustrates the evolutionary process of the Chinese managerial infrastructure and builds a basic framework for understanding it better. This study found that China is in the midst of an institutional managerial evolution from a communist based managerial system to a capitalistic socialist system managed by the communist party. An attempt to replace the old discretion based system of revenue sharing with a new rule based system of revenue-sharing demanded an evolution of managerial practices. The managerial aspects of how to transform the present Chinese managerial approach to an Anglo Saxon, transparent one based on clear rules of trade backed by a strong business ethics backbone and models is crucial.","PeriodicalId":260900,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Change Management","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132421598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lam D. Nguyen, B. Mujtaba, C. N. Tran, Alexander Ruijs
{"title":"Cross-culture management: an examination on task, relationship and work overload stress orientations of Dutch and Japanese working adults","authors":"Lam D. Nguyen, B. Mujtaba, C. N. Tran, Alexander Ruijs","doi":"10.1504/IJSCM.2013.057556","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSCM.2013.057556","url":null,"abstract":"Human capital is among the most important strategic competencies and capabilities that managers can utilise to achieve competitive advantage. In the globalised economy, it is increasingly demanding for managers to manage their culturally diverse workforce as effectively and efficiently as they manage their more homogenous employees. This study uniquely examines the task, relationship, and work overload stress orientations of people in the Netherlands and in Japan. As a result of the analysis of 439 responses, it appears that Japanese respondents have significantly higher scores on task orientations than Dutch respondents while their relationship scores are similar. In terms of gender, significant difference was found on relationship scores but not on task scores. In terms of stress orientation, no significant difference was found. In this paper, literature on the behavioural approach to leadership, stress perception, and Dutch and Japanese cultures are presented along with practical application and suggestions for future studies.","PeriodicalId":260900,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Change Management","volume":"594 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123239798","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Innovation paths: how the intra-firm evolution of technological innovations affects innovation search and innovation impact","authors":"Kun Liu, Douglas J. Miller","doi":"10.1504/IJSCM.2013.057555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSCM.2013.057555","url":null,"abstract":"We explore how the evolution of a firm’s technological innovations affects subsequent innovation search and innovation impact. We define the construct of an innovation path – a series of innovations that share fundamental knowledge and inventors. We suggest that the firm’s technological innovations can coalesce along innovation paths, and that firms vary in their technological evolution on the two dimensions of innovation path persistence and pervasiveness. We hypothesise that innovation paths highly developed along these two dimensions cause the firm to emphasise search depth over search breadth and negatively affect the impact of a firm’s subsequent portfolio of innovations. Empirical results using patent data from a sample of 455 US firms corroborate our theory.","PeriodicalId":260900,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Change Management","volume":"338 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-11-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131852078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning to synthesise contradictions: an Austrian approach to bridging time concepts in the strategic theory of the firm","authors":"A. M. L. Destri, G. Dagnino","doi":"10.1504/IJSCM.2012.046501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSCM.2012.046501","url":null,"abstract":"Moving from an inquiry on the notions of time underlying strategy studies, in this paper we lay the groundwork for the elaboration of a multitemporal view of the firm. We draw on the Austrian process view in economic studies and on Nonaka’s idea of synthesising capabilities to formulate a methodological framework which consents the elaboration of a multitemporal view of the resource-based firm, in which different time concepts are bridged and main actor behaviours crucial for prolonged firm success are encompassed. We then show how the multitemporal view of the firm which emerges from the deployment of the integration of the Austrian and Nonakian approaches consents the reinterpretation and maintenance of the concepts elaborated within both the static and the dynamic strategy literature and, eventually, also to expand our understanding of the causal relationships between strategic management and a number of other areas of inquiry in the management field.","PeriodicalId":260900,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Change Management","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117064055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bureaucracy-bureaupathology in education and administration","authors":"A. Ntanos, Konstantina Boulouta","doi":"10.1504/IJSCM.2012.046502","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSCM.2012.046502","url":null,"abstract":"The term bureaucracy refers to all those processes, characterised by excessive complexity resulting in undue delay or inaction in education and administration. The uncontrolled swelling, which dominates the entire educational and administrative system, leads to a complicated, cumbersome and time-consuming operation of these systems, causing stiffness, resulting in higher costs, in sharp drop to service quality and in citizen’s justified grievances. In the case of these institutions, the bureaucracy refers to a complex organisational and operating system. This system consists of a huge number of relations, activities, roles and hierarchical dependencies, developed in the field of education and administration, to carry out policies, which are set by the current political leadership and cover in an unusual way the entire range functions. In its ideal form, bureaucracy requires by its rates consistency, loyalty and adaptability to the environment and to the changing circumstances.","PeriodicalId":260900,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Change Management","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114514785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Eklund, Petri Paajanen, Jussi Kantola, H. Vanharanta
{"title":"Knowledge creation and learning in organisations - measuring proactive vision using the co-evolute methodology","authors":"T. Eklund, Petri Paajanen, Jussi Kantola, H. Vanharanta","doi":"10.1504/IJSCM.2012.046511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSCM.2012.046511","url":null,"abstract":"Knowledge creation and learning are key issues facing companies today. Creation of added value is based on the improvement of personnel’s performance through practical work and theoretical abilities. This research examines organisational knowledge creation and learning through the Co-Evolute methodology created at the Tampere University of Technology in Pori. The Co-Evolute methodology utilises ontology engineering to support the use of several specific fuzzy applications on the internet. In this research two applications are presented: Folium, studying organisational knowledge creation and Talbot, studying learning the environment. The Co-Evolute methodology measures the difference between current and desired states, i.e. the proactive vision of the organisation or individual. This paper presents the results of a Co-Evolute survey, carried out at a research institute in Turku, Finland, during 2005. This paper shows how the Folium and Talbot applications can be used to identify areas requiring development in the knowledge creation and learning processes in an organisation.","PeriodicalId":260900,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Change Management","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131288474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Small-world networks, absorptive capacity and firm performance: evidence from the US venture capital industry","authors":"B. N. Sullivan, Yi Tang","doi":"10.1504/IJSCM.2012.046509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSCM.2012.046509","url":null,"abstract":"A small-world network is a locally clustered network with short path lengths connecting different clusters. In this study, we explore contingent factors that affect the impact of small-world networks on firm performance, maintaining that benefits from such networks may depend on a firm’s absorptive capacity to recognise and assimilate external information and knowledge. Using a sample of US Venture Capital (VC) firms from 1995 to 2003, we find that small-world networks have a positive impact on firm performance and this positive impact varies with multiple determinants of a firm’s absorptive capacity. Implications of these findings for organisational learning and interfirm network studies are discussed.","PeriodicalId":260900,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Change Management","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116849957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Strategic change initiatives in reward management in a merger - case study","authors":"B. Saji","doi":"10.1504/IJSCM.2012.046503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSCM.2012.046503","url":null,"abstract":"The present research work focuses on the changes made in reward management systems and practices after a merger between two banking giants. A case study method using interview is used for the study. The study first focuses on the reasons behind this merger to give a background information and then move forwards to identify the major reward management integration strategies engaged by the two firms to ensure the success of the merger. Change in reward structure usually create increasing amount of anxiety among the existing employees as they will fear about role erosion, or loss of jobs, role overload or any drastic change in their role status. The study found that an early integration plan with fairness in procedures on introducing a reward management system focusing on a total contractual pay system helped in making the change.","PeriodicalId":260900,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Strategic Change Management","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131096714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}