Pure structures or ambidextrous configurations? A grounded theory of knowledge-focused organizational design in innovative ventures

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Virginia Bodolica ◽  
Martin Spraggon
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Structural Configuration ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Strategic Outcomes

Abstract Extant literature remains inconclusive with regard to optimal structural designs for sustaining effective knowledge flows, boosting innovativeness, and achieving superior performance in organizations. We contribute to the ongoing debate on formal, informal, and ambidextrous configurations in the specific context of small high-tech innovators. Adopting an inductive approach to theory building, we explore the factors that account for the variation in knowledge-focused designs across sample firms. In our study, innovative ventures rely on pure formal and informal organizational designs but also attempt to mix both, suggesting that gains from ambidexterity are not ubiquitous. Our analysis unveils that the pursuit of a given structural configuration results from a set of operating contingencies and a deliberate managerial effort to align firm idiosyncrasies with desired strategic outcomes. We advance a grounded theory of knowledge-focused organizational design in small high-tech innovators and formulate propositions that may be tested in future inquiries in the field.

Organizational-economic mechanism of regional development of high-tech engineering

2019 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-11
Author(s):  
M. S. Abrashkin
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Design ◽  
Machine Building ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Statistical Interpretation ◽  
Financial Flows ◽  
Engineering Information ◽  
Quality Of Products ◽  
Private Investors ◽  
Interpretation Of Results

The article contains a study on the prospective tendencies and problems of the development of science-intensive enterprises of rocket and space engineering. Information base of statistical interpretation of results, using methods of logical analysis, synthesis of information and graphical interpretation of results. It was revealed that the primary tasks in the development of science-intensive enterprises of the rocket and space machine-building are the instability of financial results, the state monopoly on organizational design and ensuring the increase in the quality of products. It was proved that the development of rocket and space machine-building enterprises requires improvement of the levers and methods of state regulation of the industry and attraction of private investors. It is also necessary to concentrate all functions and levers of management of the space industry, especially in terms of financial flows, product quality, control of production activities.

scholarly journals Strategic Alliances And New Product Development In High-Tech Ventures: The Moderating Role Of Alliance Type And Alliance Capability

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-28
Author(s):  
Sang-Mi Moon ◽  
Moon-Goo Huh
Keyword(s):  
New Product Development ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Entrepreneurial Firms ◽  
Alliance Management ◽  
Management Capability ◽  
Alliance Management Capability ◽  
The Relationship

Strategy scholars have proposed that capacity for managing alliance can be a source of superior performance. This study focuses on the role of this capacity, and investigates how alliance management capability of entrepreneurial firms affects the relationship between a firm’s allying and its performance. Because the capability is inherently unobservable, we take alliance experience and average duration of each alliance as proxy variables for measuring alliance management capability. An analysis of multiple allies of entrepreneurial ventures in Korean photovoltaic industry indicate that capacity for managing varying allies, and alliance type positively moderate the relation between alliance and its innovation outcomes.

The Use of Technology in Organizations

2020 ◽  
pp. 54-75
Author(s):  
Jorge Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Technology Transfer ◽  
Knowledge Transfer ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Knowledge Flows ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Use Of Technology

Multinational Corporations (MNC) face the challenge of compete in the new interconnected business environment. In particular technology is recognized as a factor that boost productivity and competitiveness and drives the business connectivity which in turn involves cross-borders goods, services and financial flows. MNC is recognized as being possessed of high-tech assets, and also, resources including capital, management skills and R&D capabilities and subsidiaries can get them, from its holding company, and they transfer technology to local businesses. A knowledge transfer, running parallel to the technology transfer take place benefiting to the local economy. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is considered as the primary vehicle to facilitate technology transfer (and underlying knowledge flows) toward emerging countries. The ultimate goal of the MNC is related to leverage technology and knowledge transfer in order to maintain a competitive edge and move toward even higher value-added activities.

A Relational Based-View of Intellectual Capital in High-Tech Firms

2010 ◽  
pp. 179-191
Author(s):  
G. Martín De Castro ◽  
P. López Sáez ◽  
J.E. Navas López ◽  
M. Delgado-Verde
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Knowledge Stocks ◽  
Sustained Competitive Advantage ◽  
Strategic Resources ◽  
High Technology Firms ◽  
Range Theory ◽  
Main Components

The Resource-Based View (RBV) has tried to test the role of strategic resources on sustained competitive advantage and superior performance. Although this theory has found several flaws in order to reach its objective effectively (Priem & Butler, 2001), recent proposals have suggested that these problems can be overcome (Peteraf & Barney, 2003). This solution requires paying a greater attention to the analysis of knowledge stocks, developing a mid-range theory: the Intellectual Capital-Based View (Reed, Lubatkin & Srinivasan, 2006). This mid-range and pracmatic theory allows the hypotheses development and empirical testing in a more effective way that the RBV. There is a certain degree of general agreement about the presence of human capital and organizational capital as the main components of intellectual capital, as well as about the fact that the configuration of knowledge stocks will vary from one industry and firm to another one. Taking these assumptions as a starting point, this paper explores the configuration of intellectual capital that can be empirically found on a sample of high-technology firms. Our findings highlight the importance of relational capital, which must be divided into business and alliance capital, so the strategic alliances play a relevance role in the type of firms that have been included in our research.

scholarly journals Improving inter-organizational care-cure designs: specialization versus integration

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 328-341
Author(s):  
Angele Pieters ◽  
Kim E. van Oorschot ◽  
Henk A. Akkermans ◽  
Sally C. Brailsford
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Research ◽  
Integrated Care ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Perinatal Care ◽  
Dynamics Simulation ◽  
Superior Performance ◽  
Archival Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Risk Patients ◽  
Low Performance

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to investigate inter-organizational designs for care–cure conditions in which low-risk patients are cared for in specialized care organizations and high-risk patients are cared for in specialized cure organizations. Performance impacts of increasing levels of integration between these organizations are analyzed.Design/methodology/approachMixed methods were used in Dutch perinatal care: analysis of archival data, clinical research and system dynamics simulation modeling.FindingsInter-organizational design has an effect on inter-organizational dynamics such as collaboration and trust, and also on the operational aspects such as patient flows through the system. Solutions are found in integrating care and cure organizations. However, not all levels of integrated designs perform better than a design based on organizational separation of care and cure.Practical implicationsA clear split between midwifery practices (care) and obstetric departments (cure) will not work since all pregnant women need both care and cure. Having midwifery practices only works well when there are high levels of collaboration and trust with obstetric departments in hospitals. Integrated care designs are likely to exhibit superior performance. However, these designs will have an adverse effect on organizations that are not part of this integration, since integrating only a subset of organizations will feed distrust, low collaboration and hence low performance.Originality/valueThe originality of this research is derived from its multi-method approach. Archival data and clinical research revealed the dynamic relations between organizations. The caveat of some integrated care models was found through simulation.

scholarly journals Methodology and Practical Tools for Digital Transformation of High-tech Enterprises

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-560
Author(s):  
M. M. Batova ◽  
I. V. Baranova ◽  
S. V. Mayorov ◽  
O. V. Korobchenko
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Organizational Design ◽  
Hierarchical Structures ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Business Strategies ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Economic Activities

Purpose: the aim of the article is to develop a methodology and practical tools for effective digital transformation of high-tech enterprises. To achieve this goal, a concept of enterprise transformation by means of innovative modernization, affecting changes in products, technological operations and organizational and production structures, was developed. For this, a number of tasks were solved, including the development of original economic and mathematical models that describe the change in the functional business strategies of a high-tech enterprise; selection and formalization of model variables; development of organizational design methods for flexible robotic structures and models for determining the parameters of flexibility and productivity of a robotic structure; software development of digital transformation processes.Methods: in preparing the article, methods of systems theory, project management of an innovative focus, mathematical modeling and a number of other methods were used.Results: a set of information systems for decision support in the areas of design and economic activities of a high-tech enterprise has been developed. The design of such systems was due to a number of circumstances. Firstly, the need to transform traditional information technologies used in the practice of a high-tech enterprise into digital information technologies. Secondly, the need for a high-tech enterprise in original applied software applications that provide solutions to innovative and economic problems, taking into account the specifics of the enterprise. To do this, an analysis was performed and models of data collection and storage were proposed for solving the problems of information support of the economic activity of a high-tech enterprise. The possibility of using a consistent data model in organizing the management of receivables and payables is shown. Cross-platform software was developed for the support system for decisions made by a high-tech enterprise, and a convenient user interface was implemented.Conclusions and Relevance: the study showed that it is advisable to create information systems as hierarchical structures covering the strategic, tactical and operational levels of management. In order to bring the automation level of the control and production subsystems into conformity, industrial robotics must be integrated into the created production links.

scholarly journals Another R&D Anomaly?

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 1211
Author(s):  
C. Catherine Chiang ◽  
Yilun Shi ◽  
Lin Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Ongoing Debate ◽  
Bankruptcy Risk ◽  
Earnings Response Coefficients ◽  
Additional Input ◽  
Earnings Response ◽  
Market Status

In this paper, we investigate the relation between stock returns and R&D spending under different market conditions. Our empirical evidence suggests that investors response to R&D activities varies according to stock market status. Following the conventional definitions of markets, we first categorize the market into four different states: slightly up (up by 0-20%), bull (up by more than 20%), slightly down (down by 0-20%), and bear (down by more than 20%). Using firms in high-tech industries from 1992 to 2009 as our sample, we show that investors value R&D spending consistently positively only when the market (proxied by the S&P 500) is up. R&D is valued less in the downward market and R&D response coefficients even turn negative during bear markets. However, earnings response coefficients are consistently positive regardless of market status. The results remain unchanged after we control for beta, bankruptcy risk, size, and different measuring windows. Our findings cannot be explained by risk-based hypothesis. The study advances our understanding of the relation between stock returns and R&D activities by empirically documenting its variations in market valuation across different market states; particularly, we found empirical evidence that R&D response coefficients in the down markets are negative. The study also provides additional input to the ongoing debate on finding the appropriate accounting treatment for intangible assets.

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