BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Organizational culture is a topic that has recently emerged in management knowledge and in the domain of organizational behavior. Following new theories and research in management, organizational culture has become increasingly important and has become one of the central focus of management. The purpose of this study was to investigate the dimensions ...

In recent years, companies have increasingly seen the benefits of creating a corporate brand. Rather than spend marketing dollars on branding individual products, giants like Disney and Microsoft promote a single umbrella image that casts one glow over all their products. A company must align three interdependent elements--call them strategic stars--to create a strong corporate brand: vision, c...

This paper presents the application of eXtreme Programming to the software agents research and development group at TRLabs Regina. The group had difficulties maintaining its identity due to a very rapid turnover and lack of strategic polarization. The application of eXtreme Programming resulted in a complete reorientation of the development culture, which now forms a continuous substrate in eve...

a r t i c l e i n f o Little is known about how various strategic orientation dimensions determine market orientation. The authors identify four key dimensions of a firm's strategic orientation as critical antecedents to market orientation: the firm's aggressiveness, its future orientation, the extent of marketing formalization, and risk proclivity. Moderating effects of two environmental force...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper was to validate a model for using the entrepreneurial ecosystem in e-banking. Method: This study was a cross-sectional survey in terms of method and time of data collection. The statistical population included managers and experts of the country's electronic banking system. The sample size was 384 people and sampling was done by simple random method. Structur...

The main challenge for Russia in the post-Cold War era is that geographical space available strategic autonomy has been greatly compressed. Due to checks and balances of Western powers, security panic neighboring countries, decline its own strength after disintegration Soviet Union, it difficult maintain Strategic control model. torn between imperial historical traditions nation-state narrative...

Overviewing selected elements from the literature, this paper locates the notion of safety culture within its parent concept of organisational culture. A distinction is drawn between functionalist and interpretive perspectives on organisational culture. The terms ‘culture’ and ‘climate’ are clarified as they are typically applied to organisations and to safety. A contrast is drawn between strat...