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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"environmental turbulence"”.
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The Effect of Governance Form Upon Adaptation During Times of Environmental Turbulence
Adaptation is perhaps the most fundamental and critical problem confronting organizations. Because of this importance, adaptation is a central concept in various organizational theories and has attracted a great deal of research attention into endogenous and exogenous antecedents of adaptation. One …
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Environmental turbulence and its impact on strategic change and organisational culture : the case of the Queensland Rugby Union
… of this research was to examine the influence of environmental turbulence on the change process occurring throughout the Queensland Rugby Union (QRU) during the 1990s, and to analyse its impact on that organisation's strategic direction and organisational culture. Within these broad parameters, …
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Understanding the Determinants of Corporate Social Disclosure Strategies: An Examination of Firms' Use of GRI Guidelines
… the involvement of the firm’s stakeholders and environmental turbulence. The firm’s CSR disclosure strategy was represented by the GRI application level chosen by the firm and the presence or absence of third party assurance. The study found environmental turbulence to be the only strongly …
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Human Resource Systems, Flexibility, and Firm Performance in Turbulent Environments
… providing data for the flexibility and environmental turbulence constructs was insufficient to conduct the proposed analyses. However, the data obtained regarding HRM systems allowed for exploratory analyses examining a mediating role of strategic alignment of the HRM system in the HR …
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Development of Aircraft Wake Vortex Dynamic Separations Using Computer Simulation and Modeling
… creates an invisible movement of air called wake turbulence, which has been shown to be dangerous to aircraft that encounter it. To avoid this danger, aircraft separations were developed in the 1970s, that allows time for wake to be dissipated and displaced from an aircraft's path. Though wake …
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The Role of Strategic Problem Identification and Formulation in Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage
… advantage ex ante during periods of higher environmental turbulence?Practitioner-scholars are uniquely positioned to address the problem-of-practice and bridge the rigor-relevance gap. My thesis consists of three papers that present the results of my abductive research process and outlines …
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Differences in market-oriented behaviour levels across firms' domestic and export marketing operations:a study of antecedents and consequences
… domestic and the export markets are experiencing environmental turbulence. The consequences of differences in market-oriented behaviour across firms' domestic and export markets were also studied. The results indicate that overall sales performance of firms (as determined by the composite of …
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"Rocky Top, Rocky Road, Solid Rock: Thirty Years of Intellectual History at the Federal Executive Institute"
… and faculty members. There were times of great environmental turbulence and threat, when the very existence of the FEI was in jeopardy. Although the intellectual streams may have diverged, the FEI community rallied to ensure survival. They have indeed survived, and while not the same institution …
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Export memory: a preliminary investigation of its quality, its use, and its link to export performance
… the organizational system. Several company and environmental factors have also been examined in terms of their relationship with export memory use. The two factors found to be significantly related to the extent of export memory use are acquisition of export information quality and export memory …
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A resource-based perspective on project management in non-governmental organisations (NGOs): a study of NGOs in Sri Lanka
… in part due to increasing economic, social and environmental turbulence. These NGOs face pressures to improve performance from a number of areas, such as other NGOs, international non-profit enterprises, government and private sector led initiatives. As a result, NGOs have grown in both scale …
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Examining agile leadership style on organizational performance through the mediation of organizational culture: a case study on professional bodies in Malaysia
… great challenges to many organizations. The environmental turbulence has affected the organizational performance of both the non-profit and profit making organizations, thus, resulting in adverse results. However, there are a few organizations that had survived the chaotic situations as they …
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SME strategic regeneration: building a holistic framework for decision-making in managing growth uncertainties and market volatilities for SMEs in Malaysia
… Regeneration impetuses at the onset of external environmental turbulence and discontinuous change. The study’s inductive approach focuses on a sensemaking approach for ‘meaningful’ discourse between SMEs’ owner-managers and its key stakeholders via institutionalising Dynamic Capabilities and …
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Caracterización numérica de la turbulencia en el estela de una aeroturbina mediante un modelo de simulación de grandes escalas
… of study. Velocity defects and the increase of turbulence generated by the turbines in a wind farm usually cause a reduction in power generation and unsteady loads over other machines. In wind farms where, because of shortage of space, high cost of civil works, etc., the wind turbines are placed …
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The firm. Techno-organizational changes, industrial relations and performances. An enquiry on Reggio Emilia local industrial system
… disposal and in accordance to technological or environmental constraints, which maximizes the revenue (see Boulding, 1942 for a past mid century state of the art discussion) to the knowledge based theory of the firm (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995; Nonaka & Toyama, 2005), which recognizes in the firm a …