Winnipeg Chinatown: Demographic, Ecological and Organizational Change, 1900-1980

Organizational Innovation and Organizational Change

Three ideas—a complex division of labor, an organic structure, and a highrisk strategy—provoke consistent findings relative to organizational innovation. Of these three ideas, the complexity of the division of labor is most important because it taps the organizational learning, problem-solving, and creativity capacities of the organization. The importance of a complex division of labor has been...

Demographic Change and Transport

Sustainability and Organizational Change

The sustainable organizational change has an ever increasing importance, leading to the rethinking of the management and systems of performance measurement and monitoring within the companies. As a reaction to current economic phenomena, in the first section of this work we tried to bring out the need for using the couple Balanced Scorecard Corporate Social Responsibility by companies. Thus, co...

Competition and Organizational Change∗

We develop a model in which competitive pressure is a catalyst for organizational change. In our model, commitment to a narrow business strategy is valuable because workers need to coordinate their efforts to build a strategy-specific capability. We show that a monopolist may not be able to commit to a focused business strategy. However, introducing competition can make commitment credible, thu...

Creativity and Organizational Change

For many people, planning is related to goal setting and finding means to achieve these goals. The goals have to be formulated as clearly as possible. The means have to be selected in such an accountable way that an outsider-expert will be able to trace and accept the strategic arguments, and that the planning can be evaluated afterwards. Such a perspective on planning is restricted and contest...