‘Do not expect me to stay quiet’: Challenges in managing a historical strategic resource

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 1811-1835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ludovic Cailluet ◽  
Hélène Gorge ◽  
Nil Özçağlar-Toulouse
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Organizational History ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
The Past ◽  
Audiovisual Archives ◽  
Strategic Resource ◽  
Charity Organization ◽  
Dimensional Management

In this paper we explore how a historical strategic resource (HSR) could be used by an organization. We propose that within an organization, HSR is both an asset and an arena for power struggle. Our contributions stand at several levels at the crossroads of strategic management and organizational studies. First, we show the importance of various stakeholders in constructing a HSR. Second, we highlight its complexity due to its embeddedness with history. The fact that a HSR could be akin to a public good implies that its rents are difficult to control for organizations. To uncover what is meant by a historical resource, we first present a review of the resource-based theory and the uses of the past in organizations from the perspective of organization theory and organizational history. We then present our fieldwork, which focuses on Emmaus, a major charity organization in France, and its founder, Abbé Pierre. Based on a historical study covering the period 1949 to 2017 drawing on the organization’s archives, online publications and data from the French national audiovisual archives, we identify visual and rhetorical elements that constitute Abbé Pierre and his past as HSR for the Emmaus organization. Eventually, our paper contributes to the literature by offering a four-dimensional management framework for HSR with appropriation, ownership, maintenance and distancing.

scholarly journals Bringing Space Back in: Organizing the Generative Building

2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (7) ◽  
pp. 1095-1114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Kornberger ◽  
Stewart R. Clegg
Keyword(s):  
Organization Theory ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Positive Power ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Impact

In this article, we re.ect on architecture and management and organization theory, in terms of their mutual implications. We focus especially on a tacit implication in mainstream organization theory, which has an architectural genesis. In the past, management has been largely undergirded by a Cartesian rationality, one seen most clearly in the argument that structure follows strategy. Architecturally, this Cartesianism is present in the injunction that form follows function. Criticizing this point of view, we argue that organizations should be thought of as material, spatial ensembles — not just cognitive abstractions writ large. Linking space and organization in this way, we re.ect on the power that every spatial organization necessarily implies, both in negative and positive terms. After examining existing approaches to this issue, we discuss some positive power implications for management. We introduce the concept of the generative building that, instead of being a merely passive container for actions happening in it, contributes positively towards an organization’s capacities. We conclude with a re.ection on the impact of the generative building on management and processes of organizing.

scholarly journals Towards Developing Innovation Management Framework (IMF) for ICT Organizations at Pakistan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eram Abbasi ◽  
Imran Amin ◽  
Shama Siddiqui
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Innovation Management ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Underdeveloped Countries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Industry Culture ◽  
Developed World

Abstract Various aspects of innovation management have been discussed in literature over the past few decades. Most of the innovation management frameworks have been formulated by undertaking studies in the developed world and lack the industry / culture specific focus. In this paper we revisit the generic innovation management studies to develop an innovation management framework for highlighting the factors affecting innovation specifically at the ICT sector of Pakistan. A detailed literature review has been conducted to identify the factors included in the past innovation management models. To identify the factors specific for Pakistan, senior level professionals, working at the Pakistani ICT organizations were interviewed. A comparative analysis of the innovation management frameworks for Pakistan against those previously found in literature revealed interesting similarities and differences. Based on the study findings, an innovation management framework is developed that highlights the present factors which are important for innovation in the ICT sector for Pakistan. This framework can be used by Pakistan and other underdeveloped countries for improving their innovation in ICT sectors in particular and other sectors in general.

scholarly journals Economic effort management in multispecies fisheries: the FcubEcon model

2010 ◽  
Vol 67 (8) ◽  
pp. 1802-1810 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayoe Hoff ◽  
Hans Frost ◽  
Clara Ulrich ◽  
Dimitrios Damalas ◽  
Christos D. Maravelias ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Single Species ◽  
Fish Stock ◽  
Economic Optimization ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
Fish Stocks ◽  
Effort Allocation ◽  
Multispecies Fisheries ◽  
The Past ◽  
Quota Management

Abstract Hoff, A., Frost, H., Ulrich, C., Damalas, D., Maravelias, C. D., Goti, L., and Santurtún, M. 2010. Economic effort management in multispecies fisheries: the FcubEcon model. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 67: 1802–1810. Applying single-species assessment and quotas in multispecies fisheries can lead to overfishing or quota underutilization, because advice can be conflicting when different stocks are caught within the same fishery. During the past decade, increased focus on this issue has resulted in the development of management tools based on fleets, fisheries, and areas, rather than on unit fish stocks. A natural consequence of this has been to consider effort rather than quota management, a final effort decision being based on fleet-harvest potential and fish-stock-preservation considerations. Effort allocation between fleets should not be based on biological considerations alone, but also on the economic behaviour of fishers, because fisheries management has a significant impact on human behaviour as well as on ecosystem development. The FcubEcon management framework for effort allocation between fleets and fisheries is presented, based on the economic optimization of a fishery's earnings while complying with stock-preservation criteria. Through case studies of two European fisheries, it is shown how fishery earnings can be increased significantly by reallocating effort between fisheries in an economically optimal manner, in both effort-management and single-quota management settings.

Organizational Behavior: Whom Do We Talk to and Who Talks to Us?

1990 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-305 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard S. Blackburn
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Behavior ◽  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Time Horizon ◽  
Interdisciplinary Communication ◽  
Organizational Studies ◽  
Modest Increase ◽  
The Past ◽  
Organizational Sciences

Citation analysis of research published in 10 U.S. organizational sciences journals during the past decade provides insights into communications within and among disciplines contributing to the study of organizations. Results suggest that during the 1980s a modest increase in cross-disciplinary communication occurred among authors contributing to these journals. The same conclusions are reached when the time horizon of the study is lengthened to encompass the previous 3 decades. More interdisciplinary communication is needed to improve the quality of organizational studies.

Propositional encodings are a subset of organization theory

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-215
Author(s):  
George Mandler
Keyword(s):  
Associative Learning ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Order Process ◽  
Human Associative Learning ◽  
The Past

AbstractThe notion that human associative learning is a usually conscious, higher-order process is one of the tenets of organization theory, developed over the past century. Propositional/sequential encoding is one of the possible types of organizational structures, but learning may also involve other structures.

scholarly journals KORGAN: An Efficient PKI Architecture Based on PBFT Through Dynamic Threshold Signatures

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murat Yasin Kubilay ◽  
Mehmet Sabir Kiraz ◽  
Haci Ali Mantar
Keyword(s):  
Dynamic Threshold ◽  
Threshold Signature ◽  
Management Framework ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Public ◽  
Man In The Middle ◽  
Network Operations ◽  
Threshold Signatures ◽  
Security Incidents ◽  
Management Symposium

Abstract During the past decade, several misbehaving certificate authorities (CAs) have issued fraudulent TLS certificates allowing man-in-the-middle (MITM) kinds of attacks that result in serious security incidents. In order to avoid such incidents, Yakubov et al. ((2018) A blockchain-based PKI management framework. NOMS 2018 - 2018 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan, April, pp. 16. IEEE) recently proposed a new public key infrastructure (PKI) architecture where CAs issue, revoke and validate X.509 certificates on a public blockchain. However, in their proposal TLS clients are subject to MITM kinds of attacks, and certificate transparency is not fully provided. In this paper, we eliminate the issues of the Yakubov et al.’s scheme and propose a new PKI architecture based on permissioned blockchain with PBFT consensus mechanism where the consensus nodes utilize a dynamic threshold signature scheme to generate signed blocks. In this way, the trust to the intermediary entities can be completely eliminated during certificate validation. Our scheme enjoys the dynamic property of the threshold signature because TLS clients do not have to change the verification key even if the validator set is dynamic. We implement our proposal on private Ethereum network to demonstrate the experimental results. The results show that our proposal has negligible overhead during TLS handshake. The certificate validation duration is less than the duration in the conventional PKI and Yakubov et al.’s scheme.

Prospectus for International Colloquium on Tradition and the Working Class

1992 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Tilly ◽  
Noëlle Gérôme
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
International Colloquium ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Social Tradition ◽  
Cultural Discontinuities ◽  
Influence Behavior

Tradition is understood as a subset of a central historical concern: social and cultural discontinuities in time and space. The historical study of social tradition is an important contribution to knowledge; it seeks to understand the ways in which groups (states, classes, communities, families) formalize, symbolize, and interpret the past—and how such visions shape the ways in which people interpret, accept, or resist present conditions and influence behavior in the future.

Commemorating alternative organizations and marginalized spaces: The case of forgotten Finntowns

Organization ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane M. Rodgers ◽  
Jessica Petersen ◽  
Jill Sanderson
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Theory ◽  
Organization Theory ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Organization Studies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Alternative Organizations

Alternative organizations have become increasingly of interest in organizational theory. Previously understudied, these organizations have also been ignored or forgotten in the dominant narratives and spaces of commemoration. This further limits what we know about the past and the potential of alternative organizations. To illustrate this problem, we offer a specific case study of the forgotten alternative organizations and marginalized space of a former Finntown alongside the commemorative narratives and practices of capitalist entrepreneur heritage spaces. Extending organization theory on memory and forgetting, we detail how commemoration not only tends to legitimate capitalist forms of organizing, but also excludes alternatives. Finntowns, with their emphasis on cooperative organizations and community, provide a unique opportunity for organization studies to explore commemoration and forgetting in terms of power relations, time, and space. These marginalized spaces contained alternative organizations coexisting and contrasting with dominant capitalist organizations. Remembering their contributions means taking alternative organizations seriously, acknowledging their historic importance as well as their ability to be models for contemporary organizations.

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