Introduces six empirical studies on trust within organisations which were originally presented at a workshop on “Trust within and between organisations”, organised by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management at the Free University Amsterdam, in November 2001. Areas covered include: the legitimacy of the field of study; common understandings and disagreements in theoretical idea...

Learning Outcomes. After completing this chapter • You will know the difference between information, knowledge and competence, • You will be able to apply the SECI-model of explicit/tacit knowledge conversion to real organisations; • You will be able to explain competitive advantage by the resource based view using the “VRIN”-concept and the construct of “dynamic capabilities”; • You will learn...

In this modern era, organisations have to work in coordination with many other organisations in order to succeed in business. Interacting organisations can only proceed in business if they have compatible workflows. This paper proposes a framework to automatically generate compatible workflows for multiple interacting organisations from their process definitions and service descriptions. Existi...

The rapid advancement of digital technologies has fundamentally shaped business in all sectors. Therefore, organisations must find strategies for responding to this through innovation. In context, the perspective innovation managers and their perception innovations practise are underrepresented previous research. using semi-structured interviews, study examines perceptions 13 towards organisati...

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As the ratio of knowledge intensiveness increases, the significance of a formal organisation structure decreases. When knowledge is a commodity and the main input is information, an organisation should be flexible. However, the free flow of information and knowledge is often impeded in a formal organisation structure. When an organisation is based on either temporary functional needs or on serv...

Abstract Media reporting and academic research into young climate civil society organisations (CSOs) often focus on using direct, confrontational controversial actions, but to what extent is this a true picture of organisations? This paper examines the differences between old environmental CSOs in Netherlands. Drawing niche theory, it uses set-theoretic typology building examine ways which 39 D...