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The Value of Organizational Structures

Concurrent Engineering, 2009
Mathematical models are developed using the maximum expected payoff method to determine the value of organizational structures. An information modeling approach is used to study the value added by lateral information sharing and intensity of interaction to a functional hierarchy for new product development (NPD). Similarly, a model is developed for the
Linghua Kong, Nadia Bhuiyan, Vincent Thomson   +2 more
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Valuing Organizational Values: Assessing the Uniqueness of Nonprofit Values

Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 2015
Abstract Practitioners and researchers alike often assume a unique nonprofit value set as a nonprofit-specific source of competitive advantage. Empirical research assessing this values–performance link remains scarce though. In response, this study tests for the predicted competitive advantage derived from nonprofit values and ...
Helmig, Bernd, Hinz, Vera, Ingerfurth, Stefan   +2 more
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The value of charrettes for organizational progress

Dean and Provost, 2023
In the first seven columns of “Management Matters,” I have covered:
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The Value of Organizational Purpose

Strategy Science, 2023
Broadening the organizational purpose of a firm beyond narrow short-term profit maximization may enhance long-term shareholder value. This result obtains when firms generate unpriced externalities and face difficulties in achieving ex ante incentive alignment with stakeholders through contract or have the ex post possibility of altering stakeholders ...
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Value Biases in Organizational Research

Academy of Management Review, 1977
A problem which plagues all behavioral-science research, including that conducted on organizations, but receives little critical attention, is the influence of individual and collective values on research results and conclusions. These influences exist in all stages of the research process, affecting subject and investigator.
Patrick E. Connor, Boris W. Becker
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IT and Organizational Alignment: Impact and Value

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2005
Responsibility for realizing the benefits of IT investments and the success of these benefits is not just the responsibility of the IT organization. An IT project can be completed perfectly, on-time, and onbudget, and still fail to succeed and realize the intended business benefits that justified the initial investment. True IT benefits realization and
H. James Nelson, Deborah J. Armstrong, Vernon J. Richardson   +2 more
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Work Values and Organizational Commitment.

Academy of Management Journal, 1978
Dubin, Champoux and Porter (1975) found a strong relationship between central life interests of workers and their commitment to the organization. This paper extends their findings by investigating the relationship between work values, defined as the Protestant Ethic of the worker, and commitment to the organization.
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Values and Organizational Justice

Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 2004
Reactions of full-time employees to reward-allocation decisions by managers that were based either on work performance or on seniority were surveyed in former East Germany and in the United Kingdom. Schwartz’s model of universal human values is predicted to moderate the perceived justice of these reward-allocation principles.
Ronald Fischer, Peter B. Smith
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Values and Organizational Structure

Human Relations, 1996
Recent developments in organizational theory emphasize the need to examine the relationship between organizational values and structure. Values underpin organizational structure and give it meaning. Drawing on concepts of culture, institutional theory, and archetypes, this paper tests hypotheses on the value/structure relationship.
C. R. Hinings, L. Thibault, T. Slack, L. M. Kikulis   +3 more
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Organizational structure of values

Journal of Business Research, 1990
Abstract The study reported here attempts to overcome weaknesses in previous investigations of the factor structure of the Rokeach Value Survey. The approach involves comparing a priori models of how values are organized by testing hierarchically nested models using confirmatory factor analysis. One model posits that values are independent, while the
Lawrence A. Crosby, Mary Jo Bitner, James D. Gill   +2 more
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