Footnotes to organizational competitiveness

On New Footnotes to Shingo

The Toyota Production System (TPS) has continually inspired scholars of production management to a search for its essence. Two new interpretations have recently been advanced. Firstly, Johnston has argued that conventional production management is based on an approach to management called management-as-planning. The central assumption is that intentional activity is based on a representation of...

Strategy, Strategic Integration and Organizational Competitiveness

An organization fits strategically in a particular branch of activity if it has a sustainable competitive market position. Strategic integration involves adopting a strategy that takes into account both the mutations registered in the business environment and the development stage of the organization. In this context, the paper examines in a correlative vision the trinomial “strategy – strategi...

Inaugural Issue: Enterprise Information Systems & Organizational Competitiveness

Managing cultural diversity: implications for organizational competitiveness

Capturing Tacit Knowledge from Transient Workers: Improving the Organizational Competitiveness

This article studies the way tacit knowledge is dealt with in a high turnover business environment through a qualitative research approach in an engineering organization with respect to organizational culture and values and the effect in competitive stance. The study found peer review process and managerial/supervisory style to be effective in enabling new employees in a short time with knowled...