An organization fits strategically in a particular branch of activity if it has a sustainable competitive market position. Strategic integration involves adopting a strategy that takes into account both the mutations registered in the business environment and the development stage of the organization. In this context, the paper examines in a correlative vision the trinomial “strategy – strategi...

This study illustrates how electronic data interchange (EDI) could be used in conjunction with organizational transformation to generate phenomenal gains in organizational efficiency and effectiveness. It reviews the current literature on IT-enabled organizational transformation to identify key variables for measuring organizational change. It employs the case research method to examine the cas...

Marketing strategists should create, maintain, and arrest the decay of causally ambiguous resource competences that lead to competitiveness and thus performance. However, competence causal ambiguity, which helps create competitiveness, is also implicated in competitiveness decay. In this study we test a model of specializationcompetitiveness-performance using primary and secondary data from 169...

Constantine Kontoghiorghes is an Assistant Professor of management and Organizational Behavior at the Cyprus International Institute of Management. His current research and consulting work focuses on the design of high performance work systems with particular emphasis on change management, organization competitiveness, innovation, technology management, quality and productivity improvement , em...

1 Measuring the Effect of Team Characteristics, Team Effectiveness on Organizational Performance, Organizational Survival and Competitiveness: A Case Study of an Indonesian NGO, Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa by using PLS Method Cheng Ping Shih, Graduate Institute of International Human Resource Development, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan Dian Utami Putri, Graduate Institute of In...

The existing body of knowledge has generally supported that organizational culture plays a significant role in shaping group identity, work pattern, communication schemes, and interpersonal relations; all of these cultural elements are important organizational factors that shape workplaces and operational routines. In the context of emerging information technology, it has also been suggested th...