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Organizational control: Restrictive or productive?

Journal of Management & Organization, 2009
AbstractOrganizational control is conventionally – from a critical stance – viewed as a negative and restrictive phenomenon, which in one way or another subjugates workers. In this theoretical paper, we argue that organizational control is often based on a particular understanding of power; an understanding that views power as repressive, equating it ...
Hannele Seeck, Anu Kantola
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ICT, Productivity and Organizational Complementarit

2011
Recent years have witnessed a surge in interest in Information Technology (IT) and its impact on productivity. The paper presents the analysis of the literature that has analyzed how firms’ skills and organizational change affect the returns from investments in ICT.
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Production of Organizational Chiral Structures by Design

Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022
Organizational chirality on surfaces has been of interest in chemistry and materials science due to its scientific importance as well as its potential applications. Current methods for producing organizational chiral structures on surfaces are primarily based upon the self-assembly of molecules.
Audrey R. Sulkanen, Minyuan Wang, Logan A. Swartz, Jaeuk Sung, Gang Sun, Jeffrey S. Moore, Nancy R. Sottos, Gang-yu Liu   +7 more
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Organizational Production Functions

1983
We are thus led to reconsider the relationship between labor and management inputs and organizational output in terms of the familiar concept of a production function (Beckmann, 1977, 1982, Sato, 1981).
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Information systems for organizational productivity

ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel, 1986
No matter what the reason for designing an information system in a particular way or acquiring a sysrtem with particular features, there is always a broader rationale which justifies the introduction of new automated information into the workplace. Inevitably, an executive, manager, or user has decided that the organization will be more productive ...
Gib Akin, David Hopelain
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Organizational culture and its impact on organizational productivity

2020
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Organizational culture is a topic that has recently emerged in management knowledge and in the domain of organizational behavior. Following new theories and research in management, organizational culture has become increasingly important and has become one of the central focus of management.
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Productivity Growth and Organizational Learning

Review of Development Economics, 2008
AbstractA new specification of the sources of productivity growth is offered. Motivated by the lack of innovation and technology adoption in backward economies, a third channel of growth related to organizational structure, work ethics, and discipline in the production process (for simplicity called organizational learning) is suggested.
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Developmental Strategies of Organizational Productivity

California Management Review, 1978
In this article the authors briefly explore the limitations of current perspectives on managing productivity improvement in organizations. Included in this discussion is a model that defines appropriate strategies of productivity improvement in terms of its relationship to goal congruency and cause-effect relationships.
N. Fredric Crandall, Leland M. Wooton
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Implications Between the Green Product Consumption on Organizational Green Productivity and Organizational Performance Strategies

2022
This study has the aim to analyze the consumption of green products and their effects and implications on the organizational green productivity and organizational performance strategies. It is assumed that the consumption of green products has effects on the production and supply chains that have an impact on the organizational productivity and ...
José G. Vargas-Hernández, María F. Higuera-Cota   +1 more
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Institutional and Organizational Determinants of Product Innovations

Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 2003
This paper analyses, estimates, and compares four prototypic models of innovation, from a simple technological model to an elaborated institutional model that includes financial, organizational and technological variables. The comparison of the four models shows that institutions, in particular the national system of innovation, and organizations ...
B. Unger, ZAGLER, MARTIN
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