Organizations operating on market and trying to work and make progress successfully have to act globally. Last decade of last century proved that the period of global competitiveness started, which is identified by penetration of standard of the world’s market and international orientation of organizations. Introduction of management quality system according to requirements of standard ISO 9000...

Stockbroking firms have adopted information and communication technology (ICT) to improve their competitiveness and responsiveness to shifts in market conditions. This paper adopts an institutional approach to the Diffusion of Innovation (DOI) to examine the diffusion of ICT and associated changes in organizational structure in the Australian Stockbroking Industry. From an institutional perspec...

This paper uses the case of Russia in the 1990s to demonstrate the utility of approaching transitional regimes not just as emerging democracies but as failed or unconsolidated authoritarian regimes. Even for many competitive or democratic regimes, it is essential to focus not just on the development of constitutions, civil society, or party systems, but on the success or failure of efforts to b...

Recent years have witnessed a change in firms’ innovation patterns, from closed to open, in which information technology (IT) has played an important role. This paper aims to open up the black box of ITenabled absorptive capacity by theorizing and testing the role of IT in two organizational learning processes, which are either interactive with partners in the knowledge alliance or non-interact...

This study presents an empirical evidence concerning the comparison of  the dynamics of competitiveness in the creative and manufacturing industries. It investigated the impact of the economic crisis in the behavior of the competitiveness of those industries. The samples were 42 firms taken from 3 sub-sectors of the creative industries and 3 sub-sectors of the manufacturing industries listed in...

The evaluation of Inter-organizational Relationships (IORs) is important in today's businesses for increasing competitiveness and business potential, especially in the Business-to-Business context. However, the evaluation of IORs is often based on success factors, such as trust and flexibility, which are difficult to be measured quantitatively. This motivates us to seek for an approach for eval...