The following dissertation addresses psychosocial needs of e~ployees as a fonn of motivational strategies in the workforce and how these strategies can fonn an integral part of the total functioning ofan organisation. The initial procedures involved in developing an argument upon which to base the research question (Can jobs become more satisfying if the manager applies psychological theories t...

Recent case study research has examined the role of organization control as a critical component of outsourcing performance (Kang et al. 2012a. Journal of Business Research 65, 1195–1201). In contrast to case study methodology, this paper aims to empirically examine the relationships among outsourcing strategies and organizational control in the Chinese context and refine the theoretical and ma...

Knowledge of Production technology and information communication technology covers many aspects of the knowledge process in firm. Digital Manufacturing is one of the core strategies of the European Manufacture vision and strategic agenda towards the knowledge based production. It is driven by the application and standardization of information and communication technologies and the increasing de...

Research findings showing the ubiquity of Pareto and ‘power-law’ distributions in the social and organisational worlds underlie increasing calls for complexity-driven ideas to be applied more frequently to organisational and management research. Power laws indicate well-formed Pareto distributions. Given that the world of business is, then, quite likely Paretian rather than Gaussian, phenomena ...

Abstract In the face of advancing globalization, societies have undergone a significant transformation over last decades. The resulting environmental, social, economic and institutional challenges made issue sustainability more relevant than ever, touching every aspect our lives. To respond to these challenges, institutions companies must jointly pursue common goal sustainable development. Howe...

This paper describes, summarizes and comments on the empirical studies in the use of three information technologies to support managerial activities: decision support systems (DSS), group decision support systems (GDSS), and expert systems (ES). These are collectively labeled as managerial support systems (MSS). A classification scheme to organize empirical research in MSS is proposed. An overv...

We propose a novel approach to evaluating the empirical importance of individual managerial characteristics: We analyze different managerial positions (CEO and CFO) jointly and ask whether a managerial bias (overconfidence) matters for decisions under the control of the manager, but not for decisions outside the manager’s core duties. Using a new data set on CEO and CFO overconfidence, we show ...