Flexible Firm

Author : Jakob Krause-Jensen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845456689
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flexible Firm written by Jakob Krause-Jensen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bang & Olufsen, the famous Danish producer of high-end home electronics, is well known as an early exponent of value-based management: the idea that there should be consistency in what the organisation does, a certain continuity between what the company develops and sells, and the beliefs and practices of the employees. This study investigates how company values are communicated and the collective identity is articulated through the use of such concepts as 'culture', 'fundamental values', and 'corporate religion', as well as how employees negotiate these ideas in their daily working lives. As this book reveals, the identification of values, meant to create cohesion and solidarity among employees, came to symbolise and engender a split between the staff and the other parts of the company. By examining the rise and fall of the value-based management approach, this volume offers the indispensible insight of anthropological enquiry to expose how social realities challenge conventional management strategies and therefore must be considered in the development of new management techniques.

Author : Jakob Krause-Jensen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1845458249
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flexible Firm written by Jakob Krause-Jensen and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bang & Olufsen, the famous Danish producer of high-end home electronics, is well known as an early exponent of value-based management: the idea that there should be consistency in what the organisation does, a certain continuity between what the company develops and sells, and the beliefs and practices of the employees. This study investigates how company values are communicated and the collective identity is articulated through the use of such concepts as ‘culture’, ‘fundamental values’, and ‘corporate religion’, as well as how employees negotiate these ideas in their daily working lives. As this book reveals, the identification of values, meant to create cohesion and solidarity among employees, came to symbolise and engender a split between the staff and the other parts of the company. By examining the rise and fall of the value-based management approach, this volume offers the indispensible insight of anthropological enquiry to expose how social realities challenge conventional management strategies and therefore must be considered in the development of new management techniques.

Author : Henk Wijtze Volberda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198295952
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the Flexible Firm written by Henk Wijtze Volberda and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do firms cope with changing environments? Is flexibility really the solution? Based on an Igor Ansoff Award winning study, Building the Flexible Firm shows how flexibility has become the new strategic challenge for contemporary firms. Offering a wealth of insights and based on extensive interviews with practitioners, Henk Volberda provides a strategic framework which explains what types of flexibility are effective under different organizational conditions and environmental characteristics. He also demonstrates an integrated method for diagnosing a firm's flexibility and for guiding the transition to greater flexibility and responsiveness.

Author : Julian Birkinshaw
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191584061
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flexible Firm written by Julian Birkinshaw and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pace of change in the business world is becoming faster. This book provides a detailed account of the network-like organization forms that some firms are adopting to make themselves more flexible and responsive to changing technologies and customer demands. As these organizations become more pervasive, the winners will be those firms that develop the specific capabilities that are needed to thrive in a networked world. Paradoxically, such capabilities are developed not only at the firm level, but also in the relationships the firm has with its external network and in the operating units within the firm. This perspective has implications for the 'resource-based view of the firm' in the field of strategic management, suggesting that the development of capabilities is a more complex and multi-level process than was traditionally thought. This book brings together eleven chapters, each focusing on a particular aspect of capability development in the networked firm. It is based on research in five big Swedish firms (Ericsson, Volvo, Skandia, Pharmacia & Upjohn, SE Banken) as well as a number of other well-known firms such as HP and ABB. The book will be essential reading for advanced students in strategy and international business wanting to keep abreast of current thinking and company practices.

Author : Henk Wijtze Volberda
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198295952
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the Flexible Firm written by Henk Wijtze Volberda and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do managers reconcile the conflicting forces of change and stability? How do they promote order and control, while having to learn to innovate and respond? This book shows how for many firms flexibility has become the new strategic challenge

Author : Paul Blyton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110863340
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Flexible Future? written by Paul Blyton and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alex J. Wood
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501748904
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Despotism on Demand written by Alex J. Wood and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despotism on Demand draws attention to the impact of flexible scheduling on managerial power and workplace control. When we understand paid work as a power relationship, argues Alex J. Wood, we see how the spread of precarious scheduling constitutes flexible despotism; a novel regime of control within the workplace. Wood believes that flexible despotism represents a new domain of inequality, in which the postindustrial working class increasingly suffers a scheduling nightmare. By investigating two of the largest retailers in the world he uncovers how control in the contemporary "flexible firm" is achieved through the insidious combination of "flexible discipline" and "schedule gifts." Flexible discipline provides managers with an arbitrary means by which to punish workers, but flexible scheduling also requires workers to actively win favor with managers in order to receive "schedule gifts": more or better hours. Wood concludes that the centrality of precarious scheduling to control means that for those at the bottom of the postindustrial labor market the future of work will increasingly be one of flexible despotism.

Author : Mario Franco
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9535139339
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Positive and Negative Aspects of Outsourcing written by Mario Franco and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-03-21 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outsourcing has been seen as a phenomenon allowing competitive advantages for organizations, but some studies do not include the causes and consequences of this particular strategy. Consequently, the objective of this book is to fill this gap by combining several studies from different perspectives. The various chapters presented here follow several approaches, which researchers explore in different contexts. This book intends, therefore, to add to the body of knowledge about outsourcing. Furthermore, it shows how the outsourcing strategy can stimulate organizations' development in various countries and regions worldwide.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1122 pages
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