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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Organizational Networks"”.
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Inside The Lines: Essays on the Performance of Whole Organizational Networks
… performance. For decades, most strategy and organizational research has focused on understanding how networks influence a single “node,” typically an organization or individual. In contrast, I shift my perspective to view a whole network as the unit of analysis. This approach is designed to …
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An agent based modeling and simulation methodology for strategic inter-organizational networks
Strategic inter-organizational networks reflect a fruitful but fragile kind of both cooperation and competition between their independent and voluntarily participating members that can be organizations, parts of enterprises, or individual persons. The motivation to participate is to offer …
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Neither new, nor heterarchic. Inter-organizational networks throughout the history of the Dutch paper and board industry
Contains fulltext : 222292.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Diversity, Networks and Performance: An Empirical Analysis of Metropolitan Planning Organizations in the United States
… vital goal in response to the increase of inter-organizational networks public organizations involve. The primary aim of this research is to examine the factors that predict performance in public management networks by disentangling the idea that collaboration requires both diversity and unity. …
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Exploiting weaknesses: an approach to counter cartel strategy
… systems to gain an understanding of its organizational networks, deduce possible safe havens, and key terrain of Los Zetas. Ultimately, the employment of the aforementioned theories revealed essential vulnerabilities, which form the essence of a practical disruption policy recommendation …
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Essays on Organizational Network Communities and Firm Innovation Performance
… thesis is an introduction and an overview of the organizational networks and innovation literature. The chapter introduces the core issues and theoretical debates at the intersection of organizational networks and innovation. It argues that in today’s ever changing and knowledge intensive business …
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Constructing "Community" in a Changing Economy: A Case Study Analysis of Local Organizing in the Rural United States
… self-described economic disaster, I consider how organizational networks and communities constitute each other in efforts to redefine a sense of place and local identity amid large-scale unplanned change. As I explore the ways in which "community" is named and placed in micro, meso, and …
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FOOD JUSTICE IN POST-INDUSTRIAL US CITIES: THE ROLE OF NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS
… A lot more needs to be done by strengthening organizational networks, strengthening social networks with community residents, and offering healthy but affordable food in disadvantaged neighborhoods, and NPOs alone should not bear these responsibilities.
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Fairness in Social Networks
<p>In professional and other social settings, networks play an important role in people's lives. The communication between individuals and their positions in the network, may have a large impact on many aspects of their lives.In this work, I evaluate fairness from different …
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Knowledge integration for problem solving in the development of complex aerospace systems
… across multiple boundaries spanning large-scale organizational networks, thus requiring the subsequent integration of this knowledge in order to accomplish the development task. A framework for knowledge integration in the development of complex systems in a large-scale organizational context is …
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Networked governance : China's changing approach to transboundary environmental management
… The Mekong Region is a complex web of inter-organizational networks that reach out, formally and informally, to China's environmental policy and decision-makers, at both the provincial and national levels.
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The Politics of Social Networks : Interpersonal Trust and Institutional Change in Post-Communist East Germany
… hierarchical, more complex and informal inter-organizational networks.
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The dynamics and architecture of value networks : the case of the medical imaging industry
… literature on the subject of alliances and inter-organizational networks, we describe the medical imaging industry in the United States. For our analysis, we have compiled a list of alliances and acquisitions launched in the last 15 years and used that list to create an overall network for the …
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An international ambidexterity model to understand new venture internationalization and growth
… international exploration. Therefore, inter-organizational learning can link to the social capital and network perspectives in international entrepreneurship research; mimetic learning can help investigating the social aspects of international entrepreneurship studies. Further, new ventures …
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Rural Health Network Effectiveness: An Analysis at the Network Level
… the main causes of this disparity. Rural health networks have been touted by many involved with rural health issues as an effective way to address the health disparity experienced by rural areas. The last fifteen years have seen a growth in the development of rural health networks, with a growing …
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Two Heads Are Better Than One: Knowledge Sharing in Organizational Social Networks
… the author explores three research areas of organizational network theory that relate to the analysis of organizational knowledge networks. The author uses a mixed method approach, including literature reviews and qualitative and quantitative methods, to answer the research questions. This …
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Exploring a Disaster Management Network in the Caribbean: Structure, Member Relations, Member Roles, and Leadership Styles
This study examined the dynamics of an inter-organizational national disaster management organization (NDO) in the Caribbean. It sought to provide a better understanding of network structure, functions, and member relations, which provided a foundation for understanding member roles and leadership …
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Case Study of the Generation Connection Program: An Intergenerational Program Transfer Initiative
… innovation, and building capacity through networks. The findings suggest that a community-based managed network approach, combining central agency leadership with capacity in long term care centers and schools/child care centers, can advance the implementation and institutionalization of …
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Oceania Football Confederation: the impact of affiliate disaffiliation on the inter-organizational dynamics of a federated network
… the impact of member disaffiliation on the inter-organizational dynamics of a network. To date the impact of an environmental disturbance such as member disaffiliation on the inter-organizational dynamics of a network has had minor academic interest. On January 1, 2006, the governing body of …
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Motivating and Quantifying Energy Efficient Behavior among Commercial Building Occupants
… system was used to investigate the effects of organizational network dynamics on the energy-use of individuals. I then introduce a new set of metrics based on individual energy-use data that enables the classification of individuals and building occupant networks based on their energy-use …
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