Background: Attracting outstanding medical professionals contributes to the creation of a medical competitive advantage. This study attempts to compare private and non-profit proprietary hospitals in terms of the connection between hospital image and compensation/benefit system on organizational attractiveness. Methods: The questionnaire survey method was adopted in this study, with employees f...

Organizational studies highlight the role of innovation for competitiveness, but few them address ecological sustainability as one variables in this relationship. The traditional model only considers economic growth to be anchored dimension innovation, disregarding environment. Thus, purpose study was analyze influence on relationship between and global competitiveness. To reach goal manuscript...

Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM) requires cross-functional co-operation, and involvement of employees in product and process development. A successful CIM initiative in small and medium enterprise s (SMEs) must have top management involvement and commitment and a CIM compatible organizational infrastructure which includes requisite skills, appropriate tra ining and education, and adequat...

Corporate processes of transformation toward increased innovativeness, competitiveness, and market orientation are furthered if firms bave a definite culture of fostering cbange initiatives. The results of a questionnaire (FOGO), developed by two of the present authors and administered to a German sample (Gebert, Boemer, and Matiaske 1998) and to a Polisb sample (Boemer, Gebert, and Rudolf in p...

Agile methods have impacted on software development by providing several changes on how software is developed. Agile values, principles and practices foster intra-team knowledge sharing. However, they do not inform how to cope with that across organizational levels. This study seeks to understand inter-team knowledge sharing effectiveness in agile software development organizations that employ ...

Organizational innovation has been viewed as an essential weapon for organizations to compete in this competitive business environment. Particularly, Malaysia manufacturing firms strive to transform their business model from labor-intensive to knowledge-intensive, which aim to immerse themselves in higher value added activities such as, developing new products, processes, and services, to conti...